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Tetris Holding is a company that holds the copyright to the original Tetris game from 1985 and licenses those rights to game developers. Xio Interactive is a game developer that released Mino in 2009, a mobile game based on the gameplay of Tetris .
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 (Russian: Тетрис [a]) is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. In Tetris, players complete lines by moving tetrominoes, which descend onto the playing field. The completed lines disappear and grant the player points, and the player can proceed to fill the vacated spaces.
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 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]
While the court determined that the idea of a vertically falling block game could not be protected by copyright, they determined that Tetris did have many unique elements making it eligible for copyright protection, including its twenty-by-ten square game board, the display of randomized junk blocks at the start of the game, the display of a ...
Tetris is a 1988 video game published by Spectrum HoloByte in the United States and Mirrorsoft in the United Kingdom. It was the first commercial release of Tetris , a puzzle game developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s, and was released on multiple home personal computer systems.
A lot of casual and social game cloning cases are about to be revisited, we bet. A New Jersey court recently ruled in favor of The Tetris Company, which sued casual game maker Xio for copyright ...
It says that the Tetris Company has a copyright and trademark on the shapes. I'm pretty sure it has neither. I believe it has a trademark for the name Tetrimino rather, and has won a lawsuit on the basis of trade dress (meaning colors and style of Tetrominos).