A24's SCP Film Sparks Legal Clash Over Fandom and Creative Commons Licensing
technollama · x · 2026-09-14
Tech law scholar Andres Guadamuz analyzes a brewing legal conflict between A24 Films (known for Ex Machina and Everything Everywhere All At Once) and the SCP collaborative fiction wiki over the indie project V/H/S/SCP.
The piece traces SCP's origins as an anonymously-driven collaborative wiki about a foundation "containing anomalous phenomena" — a legendary example of web-era collaborative creation. All SCP content is published under Creative Commons licenses, and the dispute raises questions about attribution, license compliance, and the misappropriation of internet culture when fandom meets professional film production.
Guadamuz frames the story as a unique mix of niche communities, horror fandom, indie filmmaking, and Creative Commons law, and invites the community to correct his understanding of SCP lore.
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