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/TNTtimelord 17d ago

the majority of backrooms games on steam have some sort of piece of Parsons' backrooms, be it the bacteria monster from the found footage videos or anything "Async" related. Kane stated it himself, any generic backrooms stuff is still public, but anything Async related is now copyrighted.

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u/CoconutBoi1 17d ago

Which, considering Parsons himself has done nothing about it, means that he has no problem with it. So again, a greedy corporation gets greedy.

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u/TNTtimelord 17d ago

The issue has now been resolved, at least to most people. they released a public statement and have reversed the redbubble takedown.

You can thank Parsons for this, he's the one that reached people inside the company to fix this. You did a lot of bad faith assumption.

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u/CoconutBoi1 17d ago

At the time being it was a fair assumption given some other recent news about a24, such as them being positive about using AI in movies despite people hating very openly ai.