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EA Sues Zynga Over Copyright of The Ville (EA, ZNGA, FB)

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Zynga, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZNGA) needs all the help it can get, but perhaps not today.  It appears that Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) is going after Zynga on copyright infringement and the case involves social gaming on Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB).  In short, EA has filed a lawsuit (on behalf of its Maxis Label) against Zynga for infringing EA’s copyrights to its Facebook game, The Sims Social.

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.”

EA also claims that since The Sims Social launched in August 2011, its game rapidly gained tens of millions of users, and maintains a current user base of several million active players on Facebook.

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Zynga shares are currently up 2.6% at $2.77 on the day so far but shares hit a 52-week low today and the new 52-week trading range (less than 52-weeks actually) is $2.68 to $15.91.

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. a673b.bigscoots-temp.com.

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