Stacey Friends appeared in the article entitled Scrabulous Gone, Questions Remain: Copyright Battles Heat Up on Web written by Mike Musgrove for the Washington Post.

Stacey Friends appeared in the article entitled Scrabulous Gone, Questions Remain: Copyright Battles Heat Up on Web written by Mike Musgrove:

Stacey Friends, a trademark and copyright lawyer with Ruberto, Israel & Weiner in Boston, said that the Facebook game's "look and feel" were unmistakably similar to the 70-year-old board game and that the name "Scrabulous" could have clearly caused consumer confusion.

"Hasbro was on very solid ground, I don't think there was any question about it," she said...

As for whether the differences in the newly posted word puzzle game are enough to protect the game's designers from legal action, that's still unclear, but some lawyers this week tentatively ventured that the changes to the new game could be sufficient to protect Wordscraper from legal attack.

"It might be enough," Friends said.

The article addresses new copyright issues, especially that of copyright infringement that have arisen as the Internet shifts consumer activity away from physical goods to digital versions. It appeared in the August 2, 2008 issue of the Washington Post.