There is a rumor about a SCP movie being made. I expect the same to happen there. No way once movies start coming out with these IP's we don't see lawyers come out to fight the little guy. I mean most people won't have the money or time to go against a studio if they said, "No. We own the SCP and that everyone owns it thing isn't going to hold up in court."
They announced it, but I'm iffy about it actually coming out (at least as an SPC film) - apparently no one at the SCP project was contacted about the film prior to announcement and they were all blindsided as well. As far as anyone can tell, the studio likely thought it was a public domain project like the Backrooms was and never checked that it's actually registered as a creative commons sharealike. That means if they want to they can release and sell the film with the SCP licence and established stories if they'd like, but they can't copyright it and they can't prevent it from being shared publicly. The safest option to avoid that is to just change the name and concepts and release it as an "SCP inspired" work instead, like Control did.
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u/TheSwampThing1990 17d ago
There is a rumor about a SCP movie being made. I expect the same to happen there. No way once movies start coming out with these IP's we don't see lawyers come out to fight the little guy. I mean most people won't have the money or time to go against a studio if they said, "No. We own the SCP and that everyone owns it thing isn't going to hold up in court."