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A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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Re: A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the listing." It was a bug and has been resolved.

Unless they can explain what they've changed to make sure it never happens again, it's not resolved.

Re: A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the listing." It was a bug and has been resolved.

Unless they can explain what they've changed to make sure it never happens again, it's not resolved.

This is pointlessly hostile and counterproductive. They expressed a positive position and intention, which is wildly more just (as in justice) than what we get from the vast majority of producers in any medium, and is ten times more practically significant than whether or not they have a mechanism to prevent false positives from happening even ephemerally.

Re: A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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Backrooms is a cultural artefact that was created in the commons. The idea of any degree of ownership is nonsensical and it's ludicrous they tried.

I once heard Hollywood described as a network of law firms that happens to make movies. It's the most litigious industry on Earth, or one of them. They don't just sue you and I. They sue each other constantly, battling over royalties and residuals and rights and IP theft (which does happen in Hollywood of course).

I love good film as art but the industry seems certifiably insane in lots of ways: litigious, nepotistic, backbiting, full of sex abuse and other nastiness. I have sympathy and respect for anyone (actors, actresses, writers, etc.) who love the art enough to deal with that crap.

Re: A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the listing." It was a bug and has been resolved.

Reminds me of the notices Microsoft sent to various universities many years ago regarding the sharing of StarOffice and OpenOffice on bittorrent/Kazaa/etc networks because the contained the string 'Office'.

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1kdkk2/microsof...

Re: A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the listing." It was a bug and has been resolved.

Redbubble's automated claim system is generally very corporate-sided. This has happened many times with other ideas in the commons like the words Thor and Loki. Bad claims only get resolved when people with a following complain loud enough online. Your follower count is your capital.

Re: A24 Is Copyright Striking Backrooms Artwork Older Than the Movie

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"Yesterday we were made aware of an automated claim submitted to Redbubble on behalf of A24 and Backrooms movie. We immediately began the process to reverse it and reinstate the listing." It was a bug and has been resolved.

... on redbubble.
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