This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Intellectual Property

Jun. 24, 2011

Farmville on Offense and Defense

A pair of copyright lawsuits over social network game FarmVille find the game's owner and developer Zynga, Inc. on both the offensive and the defensive.


By Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A barnyard tussle has broken out over ownership rights to the popular social network game FarmVille.


With the IPO of the game's owner and developer Zynga Inc. imminent, the company has found itself on both the offensive and defensive in separate lawsuits over the rightful ownership of its hottest properties.


Last Wednesday, Zynga filed a copyright infringement complaint against Bra...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up