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In late 2023, Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman received a copyright takedown notice from the film production company Invisible Narratives. The notice alleged that Garry's Mod violated the copyrights associated with "Skibidi Toilet", an animated webseries created by YouTuber Alexey Gerasimov produced in the Valve software Source Filmmaker using assets from their games Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike: Source, Garry's Mod (which Valve published but did not develop), and other pre-existing copyrighted material. The Skibidi Toilet copyrights were registered as part of Invisible Narratives' production on a film adaptation of the series directed by Michael Bay. The takedown claimed there was "absolutely no licensed Steam, Valve, [or] Garry's Mod content related to Skibidi Toilet", despite the fact that many of the assets the series uses were originally created by Valve and the Garry's Mod playerbase up to almost two decades before it existed. After Newman posted the takedown notice publicly in July 2024, Gerasimov became aware of the mistake and contacted him to resolve the issue and retract the takedown.
Later on December 18, Epic Games revealed a collaboration with Skibidi Toilet for the game Fortnite, adding the character Plungerman as a playable skin and the titular Skibidi Toilet as a back bling. Seemingly forgetting about the controversy that occurred a few months prior, many unaware fans speculated if a lawsuit could play out due to the use of Valve's assets, despite their models in Fortnite being stylized, legally distinct versions of them. After being flooded with questions asking about it, Newman became annoyed and released a statement clarifying that he had no "basis, want or need" to file a lawsuit against Epic Games or Gerasimov as he did not create any of the assets involved in the production of Skibidi Toilet in the first place, and asked the public to stop asking him about it.
Later on December 18, Epic Games revealed a collaboration with Skibidi Toilet for the game Fortnite, adding the character Plungerman as a playable skin and the titular Skibidi Toilet as a back bling. Seemingly forgetting about the controversy that occurred a few months prior, many unaware fans speculated if a lawsuit could play out due to the use of Valve's assets, despite their models in Fortnite being stylized, legally distinct versions of them. After being flooded with questions asking about it, Newman became annoyed and released a statement clarifying that he had no "basis, want or need" to file a lawsuit against Epic Games or Gerasimov as he did not create any of the assets involved in the production of Skibidi Toilet in the first place, and asked the public to stop asking him about it.
IGN articles:
https://www.ign.com/articles/dont-expect-the-creator-of-garrys-mod-to-sue-over-skibidi-toilet-in-fortnite
https://www.ign.com/articles/garrys-modskibidi-toilet-dmca-claim-has-been-resolved-creator-garry-newman-says
Garry Newman tweets:
https://x.com/garrynewman/status/1870102165315801410
https://x.com/garrynewman/status/1870121183913353290
https://x.com/garrynewman/status/1870121903819526487
https://www.ign.com/articles/dont-expect-the-creator-of-garrys-mod-to-sue-over-skibidi-toilet-in-fortnite
https://www.ign.com/articles/garrys-modskibidi-toilet-dmca-claim-has-been-resolved-creator-garry-newman-says
Garry Newman tweets:
https://x.com/garrynewman/status/1870102165315801410
https://x.com/garrynewman/status/1870121183913353290
https://x.com/garrynewman/status/1870121903819526487
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