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Copyright Infringement in Fantasy Lottery

Sports Lottery games, Fantasy Sports Betting and other similar gaming experiences are growing in the gambling industry in the United States since those games were specifically excluded in the U.S. online casino gambling ban. The exclusion from the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act is key to the continued success of this industry, and RotoPlay, Inc. is one of the top companies in the U.S. offering the online casino Fantasy Sports team leagues in conjunction with betting. But much to the chagrin of RotoPlay, they have been forced to defend their cutting edge “sports lottery” with a lawsuit against another industry giant, SportingBet.

RotoPlay is based out of Hershey, Pennsylvania and began offering the sports lottery games in question in 2001 to the online casino gamblers and betters in the United States. The games became a huge hit in the betting industry as many players were able to combine a love (and often obsession) of sports and betting at online casinos and betting sites. And RotoPlay’s Sports Lottery games became increasingly popular as many American turned to the site as a way to still engage in online lottery opportunities once online casinos accepting U.S. players were hard to find.

SportingBet on the other hand is a “billion dollar, publicly traded company” that is now accused of copyright infringement and unfair competition in the industry says Korey Gardner, President of RotoPlay, Inc. Allegedly, “Sportingbet copied all of [the companies] lottery games, unique scoring system, game rules, HTML code and tie-breaker information verbatim." Like the online casinos industry, Fantasy Lotteries are a billion dollar industry, so it is only natural that RotoPlay would defend its copyright with legal action against SportingBet.

Gardner also notes that SportingBet “blatantly and willfully [stole the Company’s] games” and perhaps the most shocking part of the whole situation is the fact that “Sportingbet decided to steal the games even after talking with [RotoPlay] for months about licensing games and using them legally."