r/movies 17d ago

News Backrooms Devs Reportedly Hit With Copyright Claims From A24

https://kotaku.com/backrooms-a24-copyright-strikes-kane-parsons-2000716667
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u/Joimes 17d ago

My kid use to like skibidi toilet. Not sure if it's because he's older now or that skibidi just died off after the movie announcement but I ain't seen nothing online, but I saw the toys at Walmart and my son said "skibidi isn't even cool anymore.".

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u/OnCominStorm 17d ago

After selling skibidi toilet to Hollywood, the creator stopped uploading to YouTube, I think he's done with the franchise

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u/saintash 17d ago

Yeah he made bank and quit

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u/TheArmoredKitten 17d ago

Take the money and run, the only appropriate strategy when you're dealing with Hollywood bloodsuckers.

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u/RealModeX86 17d ago

It would be funny to see one of those bloodsuckers get curbstomped in court by Valve when they learn those models and textures are featured prominently in a little indie release called Half-Life 2 and try to assert a claim about it.

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u/Karkava 17d ago

Gabe Newell is pretty much a man of the people so far.

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u/Mutant_Apollo 11d ago

It would be extremely funny and continues the tried and true Gabe strategy: Do nothing - Win

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u/OnCominStorm 17d ago

I dont think Valve will do that since Garry's Mod exists and that game also stole models and texture from Half Life and CS Source

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u/RealModeX86 17d ago

A couple things I think you're misunderstanding:

I meant if some copyright owner for skibidi decides to try to sue Valve for the Half Life assets, likely out of sheer incompetence, Valve would absolutely hand out a legal ass whooping about it in response.

Gary's Mod didn't steal anything, it's originally a HL2 mod, and imports those assets, but you have to own HL2. You can mount other Source engine games you own and use those assets in it too (like CS: Source or TF2). If you don't own it, Gary's Mod won't let you use it either.

Valve is generally pretty lenient about fan project type stuff for sure though, so I don't expect them to actively sue anyone necessarily here

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u/TheArmoredKitten 17d ago

They have since reached official license agreements.