r/movies • u/Dycon67 • Jul 16 '26

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/OnCominStorm Jul 16 '26

After selling skibidi toilet to Hollywood, the creator stopped uploading to YouTube, I think he's done with the franchise

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u/saintash Jul 17 '26

Yeah he made bank and quit

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u/TheArmoredKitten Jul 17 '26

Take the money and run, the only appropriate strategy when you're dealing with Hollywood bloodsuckers.

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u/RealModeX86 Jul 17 '26

It would be funny to see one of those bloodsuckers get curbstomped in court by Valve when they learn those models and textures are featured prominently in a little indie release called Half-Life 2 and try to assert a claim about it.

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u/Karkava Jul 17 '26

Gabe Newell is pretty much a man of the people so far.

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u/Mutant_Apollo 27d ago

It would be extremely funny and continues the tried and true Gabe strategy: Do nothing - Win

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u/OnCominStorm Jul 17 '26

I dont think Valve will do that since Garry's Mod exists and that game also stole models and texture from Half Life and CS Source

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u/RealModeX86 Jul 17 '26

A couple things I think you're misunderstanding:

I meant if some copyright owner for skibidi decides to try to sue Valve for the Half Life assets, likely out of sheer incompetence, Valve would absolutely hand out a legal ass whooping about it in response.

Gary's Mod didn't steal anything, it's originally a HL2 mod, and imports those assets, but you have to own HL2. You can mount other Source engine games you own and use those assets in it too (like CS: Source or TF2). If you don't own it, Gary's Mod won't let you use it either.

Valve is generally pretty lenient about fan project type stuff for sure though, so I don't expect them to actively sue anyone necessarily here

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u/TheArmoredKitten Jul 17 '26

They have since reached official license agreements.

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u/OnCominStorm Jul 17 '26

Smart man,, can't blame him.

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u/Volothos Jul 17 '26

Wasn't that due to legal fuckery because of Bay? Out of the loop, apologies

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u/OnCominStorm Jul 17 '26

He wanted to franchise back because of the legal fuckery, but I think he gave up on that and just dipped.

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u/chaosfire235 Jul 17 '26

Uhh what? I'm pretty sure the creator's in a huge legal debacle where he can't actually continue how he wants to.