Anyone will be able to upload Neon’s next horror anthology to YouTube the day it arrives, legally, and Neon will have no grounds to pull it down. The distributor is adapting the SCP Foundation, the collaborative horror wiki that has been assembling its own containment-file mythology since 2008, and it has committed to releasing the film and its related materials under CC BY-SA, the same Creative Commons license that governs every entry on the site.
The anthology is aimed at 2027 and will be built around emerging filmmakers. No directors, no segments and no title have been announced.
Neon Is Not a Tourist in This Genre
The company released Longlegs, Cuckoo and The Monkey, and the property it has just picked up runs to more than 10,400 catalogued anomalies and over 6,300 short stories, every one of them written by a volunteer and every one of them carrying the same license.
The Foundation Is Satisfied, Not Involved
SCP’s staff published a statement on September 30 saying they are satisfied that “NEON intends to follow the requirements of the CC BY-SA license,” and crediting the company’s “excellent communication and commitment.” They were careful about what that endorsement covers. The film is not an official SCP Foundation production. Staff supplied licensing guidance and general advice about the body of work, and had no hand in the writing or the production. Nobody on staff is being paid for any of it.
Neon’s film also does not lock anyone else out of the material, and the wiki says it will give the same help to whoever asks for it next.
A24 Got There First, Without the Wiki
A24 took worldwide theatrical rights to V/H/S: SCP on September 11, with Roy Lee and Steven Schneider’s Spooky Pictures and Image Nation Studios producing, also for 2027. The Foundation’s response was that nobody from that project had ever contacted it, and that the license makes exclusive theatrical rights something no company can hold in the first place.
CC BY-SA Means No DRM and No Exclusives
The terms are specific, and they are awkward for a theatrical business. A derivative work has to carry the same license forward. It cannot ship with DRM or copy protection. It cannot be locked to a single distributor, and a commercial streaming service would be free to run it without paying anyone for the privilege. Break any of that and the rights to use the material disappear.
Neon says it has been working with the wiki’s team on that exact problem. A distributor agreeing in advance to surrender the controls distributors normally treat as the entire point of distribution is not a thing that happens.
Two SCP movies are now pointed at 2027, and only one of them has the wiki’s blessing on the paperwork. Whether the other can come out the way A24 usually releases a film is the part nobody has answered.
