This is an interesting article which dramatically highlights the need for due diligence on what you are actually acquiring when you make a purchase for the purpose of exploiting intellectual property rights on NFTs (or frankly, anything else!).
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Crypto group shamed for spending $3m on ‘Dune’ book, mistakenly believing it had acquired copyright to produce NFTs
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Trouble in the Duneverse: an NFT group spent $3m on a failed adaptation of epic sci-fi novel Dune, not realising the purchase didn't grant them copyright to the book https://t.co/DZig4n33N7
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