Jury Finds for Original Developer of Madden Football Videogame

California jury has found that videogame publisher Electronic Arts (EA) breached a 1986 software development contract it had with developer Robin Antonick.   Specifically, it found that the expression in the source code of plays and formations from EA’s John Madden Football videogames for Sega developed between 1990 and 1996 was substantially similar to the expression in the source code of Antonick’s original Madden videogame for the Apple II computer. The jury also found that Antonick