The New York Times is taking legal action against developers of Wordle clones

The New York Times originally purchased Wordle back in 2022. — Photo by Nils Huenerfuerst on Unsplash

While the popularity of Wordle at the tail end of 2021 gave birth to countless clones of the word guessing game, it appears that its owner, The New York Times, has now started cracking down on these Wordle-like games.

According to a report from 404 Media, The New York Times has issued numerous copyright takedown requests to the developers of these clones on GitHub over its ownership of the Wordle name and copyrighted gameplay.