Skibidi Toilet studio looking to flush out imitators in court

“But Next Level continuously and willfully spreads its false narrative that it created and owns Skibidi Toilet-related copyrights, and is using its knowledge of YouTube’s DMCA Takedown Notice policy, including its ‘multiple strikes’ policy, to hold legitimate Skibidi Toilet content hostage—unless Invisible Narratives pays Next Level a hefty ransom,” lawyers wrote. […]

“We want creators to play with our IP,” Goodman said. “We want to make sure that people are doing things, obviously within reason, so long as it kind of follows a certain guideline for us.” For instance, there’s a bunch of games on Roblox — Skibidi Toilet Tycoon has 84.6 million lifetime visits — that use the Skibidi Toilet IP. Next Level’s approach, clearly, is not within reason, likely due to the domain squatting, the game, and the copyright and trademark threats combined."