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The Tetris Company, Inc. (TTC) is the manager and licensor for the Tetris brand to third parties. [1] It is an American company based in Nevada and owned by the Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers. [2] The company is the exclusive licensee of Tetris Holding LLC, the company that owns Tetris rights worldwide. [3]
The Tetris Company won its case against Xio Interactive, on the basis that Xio's game Mino (right) copied too much of the look-and-feel of Tetris (left). In the United States, the underlying source code, and the game's artistic elements, including art, music, and dialog, can be protected by copyright law. [16]
Tetris is the second-best-selling video game franchise, with over 520 million sales, mostly on mobile. Tetris has been influential in the genre of puzzle video games and popular culture. It is an early example of a casual game and it is represented in a vast array of media such as architecture and art. It has been the subject of academic ...
Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov [a] (born April 16, 1955) [1] is a Russian and American computer engineer and video game designer. [2] He is best known for creating, designing, and developing Tetris in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union (now the Russian Academy of Sciences). [3]
By the early 2000s, Rogers and Pajitnov created The Tetris Company to control the Tetris intellectual property, and to license their rights to game developers who comply with certain standards. [ 3 ] In 2009, Desiree Golden founded a game studio called Xio Interactive, and released a mobile game called Mino based on the gameplay of Tetris. [ 4 ]
Seven content-licensing sellers of music, image, video and other datasets for use in training artificial intelligence systems have formed the sector's first trade group, they said on Wednesday.
[22] [27] Nintendo successfully sued Atari Games subsidiary Tengen, establishing their exclusivity over the Tetris license, and hastening the decline of Tengen's business. [28] Other companies were able to circumvent the 10NES lockout system, but they faced barriers to selling those games in stores, unlike Atari. [29]
Henk Rogers is an Indonesian-Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur. [3] [4] He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game The Black Onyx, securing the rights to distribute the Russian puzzle video game Tetris on video game consoles where the game found popularity, and as the founder of Bullet-Proof Software (later called Blue Planet Software) and The ...