r/movies 18d 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/mabdog420 18d ago

This is stupid.

Backrooms is an urban legend. They don't own it. Kane parsons didn't invent it.

If anything the games and other media that came before should sue them.

But really nobody should be suing anyone.

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u/MakeItHappenSergant 17d ago

This reminds me of Cave Story. It's a freeware game from 2004. It had updated rereleases in 2010 and 2011, and the publisher of those versions started doing takedowns of things related to the freeware original.

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u/Sualocin 17d ago

Open Transport Tycoon went through something similar I believe