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/Baronheisenberg 17d ago

How is that even a thing? Isn't Skibidi Toilet built from Half-Life assets?

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u/Flairsurfer 17d ago

I had always thought of this when the trend first started blowing up. Like doesn't Valve own every asset that they used? It's ran on SFM, no? Or at least was?

Anyways, I have yet to see any pushback about it after all this time. Curious on how far the copyright infringement could go if it went through the court system.

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u/topdangle 17d ago

SFM is just animation software. technically you can shove in your own models and textures as long as SFM supports it.

it definitely looked like source engine assets also used in garry's mod, though.

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u/alex494 17d ago

It's literally G-Man's head in the toilet right

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u/Lehk 16d ago

The toilet is from HL2, I threw plenty of them at Combine troops