In 2012 a federal court in New Jersey ruled that a mobile game called Mino had infringed the copyright of Tetris. Tetris Holding, which owns the rights to the 1985 original, had sent a takedown notice and then sued the developer, Xio Interactive, after Mino was downloaded millions of times. Earlier cases held that you may clone a game's ideas and rules, because copyright protects only the specific expression of an idea. Judge Wolfson applied a test that strips out unprotectable gameplay ideas and compares what remains. What was left, including the art style, was substantially similar to Tetris, so Tetris Holding won. Later disputes have cited the ruling to protect a game's look and feel.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.