How “Candy Crush” is ruining the economy - Salon.com 24/01/14
▻http://www.salon.com/2014/01/24/how_candy_crush_is_ruining_the_economy
On Tuesday, word began to spread that game developers were being asked to remove their Candy-named apps from the iTunes Store. Incredulity spread fast on Twitter, as it always does when a particularly egregious example of trademark overreach boils over. Most of the ire centered on the seeming absurdity of a business entity attempting to gain ownership of a word as commonly used as “candy” — two syllables that trace their etymological ancestry all the way back to Sanskrit!
Une #copyright_madness dans le monde des #jeux_vidéo. Via @opironet #patent_troll vs #innovation.