RotoPlay Sues Sportingbet: 1 

An international press release announced recently that the company RotoPlay, Inc filed a lawsuit against Sportingbet plc. The Hershey, Pennsylvania based company that specializes in fantasy games for online casinos. In the release it states that RotoPlay's Houston branch filed the lawsuit against the British based online casino Sportingbet plc. Their case is based on RotoPlay’s allegations that Sportingbet plc violated their copyrights and in turn crested unfair competition and loss in revenue. The sports lottery games in question are very popular at online casinos. These games are highly popular amongst men and include but are not limited to football, basketball, baseball, and golf.
This case is going all the way to the Federal court in Pennsylvania. The lawsuit goes on to describe now the defendant offered the allegedly “copied” games in sister online casinos. The Hershey based company has offered the games in question since 2001. The games are “Football Lottery” and “Baseball Lottery”. Unlike the traditional online casino the games are based on fantasy drafting in which six players are selected from a roster of 54. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the way that fantasy games are played at online casinos, the way that a player scores points is based on how well the players on their fantasy team do during the week in real life games. One feature that is “mysteriously” featured in both websites versions of these games is a prize pool available for the player who most accurately guesses the top 4, 5 or 6 top players of the week.
The President of RotoPlay, Korey Gardner, has a lot to say about this online casino scandal, claiming that the company ripped off the games’ HTML codes key by key. This all came after Sportingbet plc spent months trying to get a licensing agreement with Rotoplay to use those games, not stealing them like what they are being accused of.