On-line gaming company willfully steals fantasy games. (Hershey, PA) (PRWEB) September 15, 2005 -- RotoPlay, Inc., an online fantasy sports gaming company, announced today its Houston-based legal team, Goldstein & Faucett, has filed suit, case no. 2:05-CV-02761-JKG in Federal Court in Pennsylvania against competitor Sportingbet, PLC for copyright infringement and unfair competition related to two of RotoPlay’s “sports lottery” games. The suit alleges that Sportingbet copied RotoPlay’s lottery games and is offering the games on its family of sites as its original games. Since 2001, RotoPlay, Inc. has offered unique sports contests such as “Football Lottery” and “Baseball Lottery”, the two games at issue in the lawsuit. The popular games require fantasy sports players to use their skill in selecting which six athletes, from a list of 54, will score the most fantasy points that week. Points are tallied based on those athletes’ actual performances in the sporting event. The games also feature a prize pool for correctly selecting 4, 5 or all 6 of the top performers. “Sportingbet copied all of our lottery games, unique scoring system, game rules, HTML code and tie-breaker information verbatim,” said Korey Gardner, President of RotoPlay, Inc. “It’s very shocking and disappointing to see a billion dollar, publicly traded company such as Sportingbet, so blatantly and willfully steal our games. What is most puzzling to us is that Sportingbet decided to steal the games even after talking with us for months about licensing our games and using them legally.” Rotoplay’s games can be accessed at www.rotoplay.com. Rotoplay currently has on-going pro and college football contests, as well as basketball, baseball and many other sports.