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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Facebook asked to remove "Scrabulous"

    LONDON
    Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:17am EST
    A Facebook profile is seen in a handout image. REUTERS/Facebook/Handout

    LONDON (Reuters) - The makers of word game Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove its popular online version "Scrabulous," which they say infringes their copyright.

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    The U.S. and Canada rights to Scrabble are owned by Hasbro Inc, the world's second-largest toy and game company, while the biggest, Mattel Inc, has the rest of the world.

    "Letters have been sent to Facebook in the United States regarding the Scrabulous application," said a Mattel spokeswoman in Britain.

    "Mattel values its intellectual property and actively protects its brands and trademarks.

    "As Mattel owns the rights to the Scrabble trademark outside the United States and Canada, we are currently reviewing our position regarding other countries."

    A UK spokesman for Facebook was not immediately available for comment.

    Facebook has recently overtaken similar sites including MySpace and Bebo to become Britain's most popular social networking site.

    (Reporting by Andrew Hough; Editing by Stephen Addison)
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