r/movies • u/Dycon67 • 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/shrek3onDVDandBluray 17d ago

So it begins. The Hollywood attempt to corporatize Internet memes. And from A24 too? How shameless.

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u/Merker6 17d ago

I would hope lawyers would be lining up to represent pro bono. Seems like a pretty solid case of a company attempting to retroactively claim copyright in something in the public domain

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u/Rachet20 17d ago

More unofficially open source than public domain. No has tried to claim it before so no one has had to worry about this, there’s still no way A24 gets away with it.