> You really think that just because you have an idea, it belongs to you?
>>220978956Shit like this is why I don't post my best ideas on here. The Backrooms existing as a smash hit movie must piss that original anon off so god damn much.
>>220979900Entertaining this idea, it's that anon's fault for not getting his shit together while Kane was making backrooms short films for like 5 years.In the hypothetical scenario that the original anon is just watching Kane run with the concept, it's anon's fault for not spending a weekend learning Blender to compete.
>>220979956All of that is irrelevant though because he can't prove that he made the original image and thus can't claim copyright. If I were that anon and I came up with the original idea I wouldn't mind other people running with it and creating something amazing, I'd just want a little credit and some royalties. How many times do you think that anon is going to be in a public setting like a party, or a bar, and someone is going to say to them "holy shit have you seen Backrooms yet?" and he'll have to fight the urge to say "You know I created the original image that was based on" because he knows no-one will ever believe him. I know that shit would fucking kill me.
>>220980103That's not the point. The point is not trying to copyright the 4chan post obviously. You create something based on it that you can, if it's such a swell idea.
If the anon who wrote the concept post had used a secure tripcode when he made that post and kept the password for the tripcode written down somewhere, they would have had a way to prove their identity as the creator of the Backrooms.
>>220980132>That's not the point.But that's my point. There will always be someone more talented, or more motivated, or hell just better connected, than you, and those people should be allowed to create great things, I'd just hate to have someone build their success off my original idea without ever even being acknowledged for it.
>when you came this close to anonymously sharing a concept for a film series on /tv/ you had started developing a few years back and you would have had no way to prove authorship if it had ever gotten bigI shudder knowing there was a possibility it could have happened to me.
>>220980378My fear wouldnt be that someone steals my idea, only that someone would steal my idea but not even execute it very well or completely butcher it.
>>220979900This is like throwing away a winning lottery ticket
This reminds me, I have multiple unpublished screenplays I've written that I've been meaning to submit to the US Copyright Office for registration to create a tangible record that can legally prove I'm the copyright holder and protect my rights over them. I think I should get started on that ASAP.
