EA Won’t Face Ex-Madden Programmer’s Fraud Claim at Trial
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Electronic Arts Inc. won’t face a fraud claim brought by a former programmer who wrote code for the earliest versions of the company’s “Madden NFL” video game, a judge ruled.
U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco said yesterday that the only claim in Robin Antonick’s lawsuit against the video game maker that will proceed to trial is whether the company broke a 1986 contract by failing to pay him royalties on works derived from his code.