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Some crypto enthusiasts apparently thought owning a book was owning the rights to it

2022-01-17 00:00:00

The ability to mint an NFT and the knowledge to reason cogently about ownership and copyright issues are not always intersecting sets.

It would appear Spice DAO bought a book thinking they own the rights to the story within and could do anything they wanted with it.

We won the auction for €2.66M. Now our mission is to:



1. Make the book public (to the extent permitted by law)



2. Produce an original animated limited series inspired by the book and sell it to a streaming service



3. Support derivative projects from the community pic.twitter.com/g4QnF6YZBp — Spice DAO (🏜,🏜) (@TheSpiceDAO) January 15, 2022
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