EA and social gaming company Zynga agree on a game case settlement

http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17197.html "> Beijing time February 16, EA and social gaming company Zynga filed a Friday filing to undo a lawsuit last year, Content is EA accuses Zynga's social game the Ville of replicating the EA game the Sims. The two sides will each bear their own judicial expenses, the paper said.

A Zynga spokesman said: "EA and Zynga have closed their lawsuits and handed over to the California State North District Court to settle the case." "The Ville is no longer operational, but not because of the judicial process, but because users have abandoned the game, forcing Zynga to close the game." Both EA and Zynga are uneasy about hiring each other's executives, who in the lawsuit referred to two executives John Chabert John Schappert and Jeff Kap (Jeff Karp), who left their jobs last year.

Copyright protection for the game is very weak, as the U.S. Copyright Protection Agency points out: "Copyright does not protect the concept, name or play of a game, nor does it protect any ideas, systems, methods, equipment or trademarks that involve the development, marketing, or gaming of the game." Once a game is listed, nothing in the Copyright Act prevents others from developing another game based on similar principles. ”