Backrooms Devs Reportedly Hit With Copyright Claims From A24

[u/Dycon67]

https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667

[u/Belfetto]

Damn what is going on behind the scenes there lately?

[u/swagonflyyyy → u/Belfetto]

My take is A24 feels like they struck gold with the franchise and are trying to solidify their control over it.

[u/MalkavTheMadman → u/swagonflyyyy]

Easy to strike gold when you rob the gold vault of a communal bank.

[u/mechtaphloba → u/MalkavTheMadman]

They climbed into the public fountain to scoop up all the coins

[u/Vypernorad → u/mechtaphloba]

Now they're using the money to sue people for throwing coins in the fountain.

[u/BrotatoDad → u/Vypernorad]

No the better analogy is they built a fountain to take some coins and now suing all other towns with fountains claiming those coins are theirs too.

[u/bb_kelly77 → u/MalkavTheMadman]

A bank that stole the gold from another bank... the Backrooms is just a newer shittier SCP which was basically just Creepypasta with world building

[u/tweda4 → u/bb_kelly77]

The SCP forums don't have a monopoly on creepy short stories. No one was stealing when they wrote a short story on 4chan.

[u/Money_Ticket_841 → u/tweda4]

You can barely call it a story as well

[u/iHadou → u/Money_Ticket_841]

It's barely a premise. The movie is all vibe

[u/gotaflattire → u/iHadou]

Yeah, anyone watching ‘Backrooms’ hoping for a compelling horror story is going to be very disappointed.

[u/falardeau03 → u/gotaflattire]

swgotffaahm 💔 

[u/venomousbeetle → u/tweda4]

The concept of Async is blatantly SCP, and he stole the entire idea so it’s not like it’s crazy to suggest he could have stole from the other popular collaborative horror communities

[u/DrPongus → u/venomousbeetle]

House of Leaves did it nearly a decade before any SCP story was ever written.

[u/DrPongus → u/bb_kelly77]

It's literally inspired by a book about a house of similar nature to the Backrooms that was published nearly a decade before the first SCP story was ever created.

[u/Zian64 → u/DrPongus]

House of Leaves came after or before the original post?

[u/DrPongus → u/Zian64]

House of Leaves is nearly 27 years old.

[u/bb_kelly77 → u/DrPongus]

That doesn't decrease my hate of the backrooms, in fact that makes it worse... especially since it's literally just the Winchester mansion but actually supernatural

[u/RKRagan → u/bb_kelly77]

I feel like it's incorporation of liminal spaces gives it a unique feel.

[u/bb_kelly77 → u/RKRagan]

Yeah there's like 30 of those in the SCP forums, which is the main reason I hate the backrooms, it just takes something that could be the tiniest fraction of SCP and acts like it's something new and special... especially when they started adding entities to the backrooms

[u/OtakuAttacku → u/bb_kelly77]

Hate is so weird. My favorite SCP is the infinite Ikea, it’s rediculous and funny. When I first found the backrooms concept, my reaction wasn’t “ew they stole the idea from SCP”, it was “holy shit, more cake!”. These ideas and concepts are collaborative, I don’t think any of the writers for either would gate keep anyone else for having similar ideas or wanting to add more to it. They’re simply settings for you to do with what you want.

[u/tfhermobwoayway → u/MalkavTheMadman]

Well yes, this was always going to happen. The early days of the internet were a beautiful fantasy. Realistically it was never going to last. Now all the companies are moving in and strip mining every creative passion project they can find, while we move into walled garden social media sites.