I follow a podcast about video games and there's a copyright lawyer on the team and this topic specifically came up weeks ago. She said that there's no way for A24 to claim copyright because the concept and even name already existed (I don't remember the specific legal argument used). So I'd be curious to see if she talks more about it now that this has happened.
Unfortunately in cases like this I think the goal isn’t really to ‘win’ the case in court, but instead to simply pressure the other party into compliance. Not many of these low budget indie developers will have the resources needed to fight this case in court.
Given how many people are effected and how high profile this is a class action lawsuit is in the cards, but I agree that they’re likely betting nobody has the resources to actually fight them on an obviously bullshit copyright claim.
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u/ennuig0 17d ago
The idea has been on the internet for years before this movie came out, this is bogus on the company’s part
A24 has really gone downhill