Computer Games
- Atari's video game Pong was accused by Magnavox of being a copy of the Odyssey's tennis game. Nolan Bushnell saw Ralph Baer's version at a 1972 electronics show in Burlingame, California. Bushnell then founded Atari and established Pong as its featured game. Baer and Magnavox filed suit against Bushnell and Atari in 1973 and finally reached an out-of-court settlement in 1976.
- Several instances of plagiarism have occurred at computer game competitions such as the World Computer Chess Championship. In 1998, the Go program KCC Igo was found to have plagiarized the previous champion Handtalk. Although not disqualified at the time, KCC Igo was barred from participating in the Computer Olympiad a decade later. In 2011, early versions of the four-time chess champion Rybka was found to have plagiarized Crafty and Fruit. Rybka was stripped of its four titles and banned from future participation in the WCCC.
Read more about this topic: List Of Plagiarism Controversies
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