I just found out last week that when it comes to shorts, there is no protection against someone using the same title / name of the movie. I have a friend who is an actor and we went to a screening of his latest short he is in. There were 8 shorts in the block, and unfortunately one of the videos was not shown. While looking up the name of the short at IMDb, there were multiple videos with the same title, and this is when my friend told me there was no protection against that. The reason I'm writing this is because I just watched another short yesterday titled The Gate. It was a horror short on Alter. Okay, now I am confused. There is a Netflix series that started in 2017 called Dark. This short is pretty much a direct ripoff from that series. The series went for three seasons. There is a cave (gate) that people have discovered they can use to travel both backwards and forwards in time. I thought of it right away as soon as I saw the opening in the woods in this short. I thought, there is no way this will be a time travel from a mysterious cave (gate) type of movie? Unfortunately it is, right down to the ominous music when the cave (gate) was shown.
I get the point, even though it doesn’t really matter to me. Everyone should have the creative „space“ to come up with ideas, names etc. and should not stick to restrictions. Yes, the gate was inspired by Dark and that was also the goal. Obviously we are not professionell filmmakers (Just 15). Anyway, thanks to for your comment, but for me this does not sound like constructive criticism.
@@leokinast Thank you for replying. You did not mention this was inspired by Dark, so it seemed as if this was copied for your story. That was why I said I was confused, if your story has won awards, it would seem others would have asked the same question I was. As for some constructive criticism, I thought what you did with your story was done very well. I like you added the water (or fluid, anyway) into the process, that was your idea? So, actually no criticism, a job well done.
