Hi there! Do you care about artists having a right to their work? Do you care about people being fairly credited and compensated? Then LISTEN UP.
I do not want to see ONE. SINGLE. fan of SCP going to see the V/H/S SCP film. I do not want to see any horror fan going to see it. I do not want anyone who claims they care about artistic integrity to go see this film.
Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios are producing “V/H/S: SCP,” a full-length feature based on the online SCP Foundation project.
If you're unfamiliar with SCP, it's an online horror fiction collective. The beauty of it is that it's all CC-by-SA-3.0 licensed, so no one person can lay claim to it. A key part of that license is:
ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.
Guess what's fucking that over?
The Wiki's Licensing team was not contacted about this project. I repeat: the Wiki's Licensing team was not contacted about this project.
"But what about Backrooms?" The content for Backrooms was based around Parsons' own series and interpretation aside from the original anonymous post. The Wiki is a collective of hundreds of authors producing original content. It VERY MUCH SEEMS like the people behind this project are about to profit off of basically stealing site members' work. I cannot confirm if authors have been contacted or not, but staff have been totally blindsided. If this film doesn't comply with the SCP Wiki's CC license, there is basically nothing they can do about it. A small horror writing website cannot win a legal battle against these studios.
PLEASE spread the word. I am beyond angry about this.
I'm also tagging @deadmeatjames here real quick because I know you've spoken about this franchise in the past and I am a whole random person online with zero reach.
EDIT: To be crystal clear, this post is not a statement on behalf of Wiki staff or the site as an entity.
EDIT 2: Please do not attempt to contact the film studio on behalf of the Wiki.
This is such a disgusting thing to see. Do not let money hungry studios or companies make profit off people's work!
