EA (EA) says Zynga’s (ZNGA) 'The Ville' Infringes on Copyright
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Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: EA) today announced that it has filed a lawsuit on behalf of its Maxis Label against Zynga Inc. (Nasdaq: ZNGA) for infringing EA's copyrights to its Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) game, The Sims Social. In the complaint, which was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on August 3, 2012, EA claims that in Zynga’s recently-released Facebook game The Ville, Zynga has willfully and intentionally "copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements of The Sims Social in a violation of U.S. copyright laws."
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