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SGN and David Maestri Reach Settlement over Mob Wars
December 31st, 2008
| By - Justin Smith - | 3 Comments » |
The ongoing legal dispute between SGN and former Freewebs employee David Maestri over rights to the popular (and highly profitable) Facebook game Mob Wars has come to a conclusion.
The two sides are announcing today that they came to a settlement on December 16 in which Maestri’s firm Psycho Monkey will retain ownership of Mob Wars, but both SGN and Psycho Monkey have rights to “build future games using this gameplay template.” In addition, SGN also received an undisclosed cash settlement.
With over 2.4 million active users, Mob Wars is one of the most popular games on the Facebook Platform, and is widely regarded for spawning a cottage industry of knock-offs after rumors surfaced that the app was doing very well financially. In August, Inside Facebook interviewed the “Godfather” behind Mob Wars’ offer-based monetization efforts, Super Rewards.
We’ll continue to track both SGN’s and Psycho Monkey’s efforts to build on the success of Mob Wars now that the legal dispute has been resolved.
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January 4th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
[...] SGN and David Maestri Reach Settlement over Mob Wars – The legal dispute between leading social game developer SGN and former employee David Maestri over the wildly popular Mob Wars game has come to an end. Check out all the details on the game’s future. [...]
February 9th, 2009 at 8:26 am
[...] ownership over the game’s IP came into question. Long story short, SGN and Maestri arrived at a settlement in December that granted Maestri the rights to Mob Wars, while SGN received an undisclosed financial settlement [...]
June 22nd, 2009 at 7:25 pm
[...] kinds of IP issues are still by and large very common in the social gaming world. Late last year, SGN settled its suit with former employee David Maestri over ownership of Mob Wars, but suits have continued to fly [...]