It’s back! Scrabulous, the impostor Scrabble game on Facebook which was shut down after a lawsuit filed by Hasbro, which owns the U.S. and Canadian rights to the original Scrabble board game, came back to life Thursday as Wordscraper.

Its return pursues a drawn-out battle amoung the copyright holder, gamers and developers.

The popular Scrabulous, created by Indian brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, had a following of nearly 80,000 players since 2005. For months Hasbro warned Facebook and the

Agarwallas about copyright infringement, and last week it sued the Agarwallas in the Southern District Court of New York and demanded that the game be shut down. Hasbro owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, while rival toymaker Mattel owns the rights in the rest of the world.

The creators complied and posted that letter to fans on the Scrabulous Web site: “In deference to Facebook’s concerns and without prejudice to […]

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