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Crypto Group Buys Dune Book, Confuses it for Buying the Rights

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million ($3 million) acquiring a physical copy of the book Jodorowsky’s Dune. With previous ones selling for around €25,000 ($28,000), their copy cost more than 100 times the going rate. Many copies of the book are already easy to access just through a simple search. In other nations, moral rights may prohibit that.

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IPSC Panel 14 – Copyright Authorship & Ownership

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Twain gave her a signed & inscribed copy after publication, which descendants donated to UMd decades back. Determined to prevent forfeiture, courts found—often on very thin evidence—that authors implicitly transferred rights, defying statute. Deals with © and moral rights, first sale, users rights.

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WIPIP Session 8 (copyright)

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President Ford couldn’t prevent others from copying bare historical facts. c) does grant authors “rights in something he created” and that “already belong to him” at common law and is taken after a few short years from him and his heirs. Natural or moral right to own fruit of labors. She doesn’t think those are the same.