For now, Sony heads into a film release with an intriguing challenge to its intellectual property. If the Phame Factory case goes far, there could perhaps be similar exploration about who contributed what - and under what licensing scheme - back in 2009 on a message board.
#ORIGINAL SLENDER MAN MOVIE#
really have exclusive rights? The question never got to court, and it appears the movie adapting that Reddit story was never made.Īnother dispute that’s perhaps relevant happened over modded video games, where fans of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos contributed stories and characters in new versions - leaving quite a mess over authorship and ownership. purchased movie rights to a story posted on Reddit and, at the time, we pointed to the social site’s “user agreement” providing a non-exclusive license. This Slender Man case calls to mind some other situations.īack in 2011, Warner Bros. Sony’s attorney Linda Burrow has dodged getting specific. In responding to the cease-and-desists, Phame Factory continually asked Sony about what specific copyright elements are claimed to be owned. While the complaint filed in Texas by Phame Factory ( read here) doesn’t go into the origin story of Slender Man, there’s clearly some potential in the road ahead. The pic will now become controversial for another reason.
The studio has proceeded with the film despite the victim’s father complaining that the movie is “ extending the pain all three of these families have gone through.” Sony’s Screen Gems division acquired motion picture rights to the Slender Man from Knudson, who, according to one of the cease-and-desist letters to Phame Factory, registered his character for copyright in 2010. (Earlier this year, the attempted murder resulted in a 40-year sentence to a mental institution.) A myth was created, and other users contributed their own stories.Ī few years later, the meme took on a different sort of life when a 12-year-old Wisconsin girl was lured into the woods and stabbed 19 times by two other classmates in what the police were later told was an effort to prove to Slender Man that the perpetrators were worthy of being servants. He later contributed more doctored photos, newspaper clippings and child’s drawings of Slender Man. In 2009, according to this article in The Washington Post, Eric Knudson went on the user forums of Something Awful, a humor site, and posted two photos of children haunted by a tall, shadowy figure. What makes this case so intriguing is the origins of “Slender Man.” The Slender Man was created at the Something Awful Forums in a thread entitled 'Create Paranormal Images.' He is described as wearing a black suit strikingly similar to the visage of the notorious Men In Black, and as the name suggests, appears very thin and able to stretch his limbs and torso to inhuman lengths in order to induce fear and ensnare. Amazon Prime Signs Overall Deal With Nigerian 'Gangs of Lagos' Filmmaker Jade Osiberu
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