A24 fighting these terms could deal a massive blow to community collaborative projects.
As announced last night, A24, one of the biggest film production companies in the world, is making an SCP movie. Specifically, it is going to develop a sequel to the horror anthology series V/H/S called V/H/S: SCP, combining these two recognizable horror brands into what could be quite a good Halloween flick.
However, the SCP Foundation is taking a bit of issue with the matter, as A24 has not contacted or attempted to contact anyone on the website, especially since SCP is covered by a Creative Commons Attributions-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA 3.0) license. This license means that A24’s film will be, essentially, in the public domain from the moment it is released, allowing anyone and everyone to copy it and distribute it freely without paying anyone a single penny.
As the Foundation’s staff indicates, “A24 does not and cannot have any exclusive rights to anything related to the SCP Foundation, including any films that Spooky Pictures or anyone else may choose to create.”
“The “ShareAlike” aspect means that creators of derivative works are obligated to release those works under CC BY-SA 3.0 or higher as well,” the staff wrote.
Based on this, the SCP Foundation outlined that A24 “would not be permitted to distribute the film with DRM or other effective technological measures that would prevent it from being copied.” This means that, as indicated above, reproduction, copying, and redistribution – without paying or attributing anything to A24 itself – would be completely legal for anyone.
Furthermore, A24 “would not be able to establish any sort of exclusivity with respect to distribution. Just as anyone who follows the license can redistribute and create derivative works based on the SCP Foundation articles on our wiki, anyone will be able to do the same with their film. For example, anyone could upload a copy to YouTube.”
Most SCP games are also free for this exact reason.
سەرچاوەی فەرمی بە زمانی ئینگلیزی: https://www.destructoid.com/a24-is-making-an-scp-film-and-thanks-to-the-foundation-you-should-be-able-to-watch-it-for-free/
