A24 made several serious missteps following the release of Backrooms, angering fans by filing copyright claims against other Backrooms creators, before withdrawing them after director Kane Parsons intervened. So, A24 and its partners at Image Nation Studios and Spooky Pictures have been eager to clarify that they are not asserting exclusive rights to the SCP universe. A24 declined to comment, but Monique Levine, a spokesperson for Image Nation and Spooky, told The Verge that “A24’s worldwide rights pertain to the specific film project being produced.”
The problem is, under the license used by the SCP Foundation, nobody can claim exclusive rights to any SCP material. Creative Commons’ CEO Anna Tumadóttir told The Verge that, “Anyone can use works available under Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license, even commercially,”
Fucking hell dude why can’t just one of these corps be decent. All of them are theiving cunts? Not one good apple? Fuck.
I mean… A24 can say whatever they want. The fact remains that the art they are producing is derivative of prior art, and that prior art has an intentionally very broad license that also applies to derivative art (and, you know, basically the entirety of the SCP article catalogue is derivative art in the first place). I don’t expect this would hold up well for A24’s lawyers if they actually try to go after people again.
"We don’t know how many people would choose to pay to see a film in theaters when they could legally download it at home for free.”
How will you download it if you don’t have the file? I’d be surprised if any movie theater would choose to share it, especially because they will surely have further agreements that prohibits them from doing so. Basically “I will not share this file or pay a huge contract violation fine”.
So the only way to watch it would be through cam recordings that suck. And I believe YouTube and other video platforms could make agreements with A24 to take them down for a while.
Didn’t they clear up any problems that happened quite fast?
Not that it should have happened in the first place, but it seemed that it was always some automated system that was absolutely not prepared to deal with a movie that is based on prior art that was so similar to the production
The shitty automated systems would go away pretty quickly if false claims actually had a punishment. As it is they can just say “oops, our bad” and be totally off the hook for the chaos it causes for everyone else.
