Catalogue information

LastDodo number
562699
Area
Board games
Title
Sjopspel
General name
Manufacturer / publisher
Kind of game
Collection / set
Number in collection
Year
1989
Number of players
2-4
Author / designer
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This game led to a legal battle between Super De Boer Unigro N.V. and another, unnamed party during the 1990s. Below is part of the final verdict: In October 1986, the plaintiff, together with the person concerned, developed a game, called 'Shopping game'. The person concerned transferred his copyrights to this game to the plaintiff. The game was shown in design to De Boer in the spring of 1987 at the request of the plaintiff. , now the respondent in cassation. [...] De Boer has kept the offered Shopping game (i.e. game board, props and rules) in her office in Beilen and has replied that she is not interested in this game. De Boer returned the game to the plaintiff in September 1989 at his request. In 1989 De Boer made a board game, called “Sjopspel”, available to customers in its stores as part of a savings campaign. This game was designed by Score Promotions BV on behalf of De Boer. Plaintiff has summoned De Boer to appear before the court in Assen for infringement of his copyright in the Shopping Game. After amendment of the claim, the claim extends to order De Boer to cease and hold the publication and reproduction of the Shopping Game, under penalty of forfeiture of a penalty, to payment of compensation and to payment of profit with the associated ancillary claims. . Subsequently, De Boer put forward a defense in the main action, denying that the Sjopspel is derived from the Plaintiff's Shopping Game. In its interlocutory judgment of 23 March 1993, the court - after having considered that the Sjopspel bears a strong resemblance to the Shopping Game - instructed De Boer to prove that the Sjopspel developed by Score Promotions BV on its behalf is an original work and is neither consciously nor unconsciously the Shopping game developed by the plaintiff is borrowed. De Boer has asked witnesses to be heard in order to comply with this evidence assignment. The witness, then head of Publicity, Advertising and Public Relations at De Boer's company, stated in the summary of the court that he was approached by Score Promotions BV around May / June 1988 with a concept that later became the Sjopspel ; This witness was unknown to the Plaintiff's Shopping Game. The director of Score Promotions BV stated that he was in contact with Albert Heijn and knew from this that he was looking for a so-called premium. The witness discussed this with the graphic designer, who subsequently developed a concept for a shop game. Because Albert Heijn did not want to cooperate in the further realization of this concept, this game was offered to various other supermarket companies, including De Boer. The witness was not aware of the Plaintiff's Shopping Game, nor did it know that a sample of the Shopping Game was present at De Boer's. "

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