It was the virtual currency group that won the bid for the phantom Hodlovsky version of 'Dune Sand Planet' storyboard collection for 350 million yen.

Frank Herbert 's big science fiction epic ' Dune Sand Planet ' was made into a movie in 1984 and 2021, but in the 1970s Alejandro Jodorowski was considering making it into a film for more than 10 hours. This Hodlovsky version of 'Dune Sand Planet' ended in a phantom, but the storyboard collection was sold for 2.66 million euros (about 350 million yen), and the American virtual currency group 'Spice DAO' won the auction. Did.

Cryptobros splash millions on rare'Dune' book, think they own the copyright | TNW
https://thenextweb.com/news/cryptobros-spend-millions-rare-jodorowsky-dune-book-copyright-analysis/

Jodorowsky's Dune crypto collective promises a Dune-inspired animated series --The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/17/22887948/jodorowsky-dune-bible-spice-dao-derivative-script

Jodorowsky's 'Dune Sand Planet' storyboard collection was written by French cartoonist Jean Giraud and HG Giger, a creature designer for the movie ' Aliens .' Since it is said that there are only 10 to 20 storyboards in the world, this storyboard collection is considered to be a phantom existence even among movie fans, and when it was auctioned at Christie's in Paris, France in November 2021. It was sold for 2.66 million euros, which is nearly 100 times higher than expected.

Spice DAO, a cryptocurrency group that won the bid, said on Twitter, 'Make anyone read the storyboard collection within the scope of the law.' 'Create an original animation based on this storyboard collection and sell it to the streaming service.' 'Community We will support derivative projects of. '

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

Among the goals set by Spice DAO, regarding 'publication of storyboard collection' and 'animation', Spice DAO did not purchase the copyright of 'Dune Sand Planet', so just because I bought the storyboard collection It cannot be animated. Therefore, on Twitter, many people are skeptical about this point.

1) not gonna happen. One word, three syllables: copyright.

2) you didn't need to buy it to do that

3) see # 2

4) who gets to keep it? who pays to insure it? Who plays to preserve it / keep it safe?

— Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch) January 16, 2022

One user has pointed out that 'It seems that Spice DAO is definitely the winning bidder for the storyboard collection, but isn't Spice DAO misunderstanding that he also got the copyright?'

I have genuinely spent 10 minutes starting at this but, no, it really DOES appear to be true that a bunch of cryptobros just spent € 2.6 MILLION --100x the asking price --for a book at auction in the mistaken belief that they would therefore own the copyright in it. https://t.co/2HmaGWHKWF

— Gary Brannan (@garybrannan) January 17, 2022

'I have a Harry Potter book, so I want to get Harry Potter animated soon. I'm going to sell it to Netflix.'

I just bought a copy of Harry Potter, can't wait to start my animated series of it. Gonna sell it to Netflix.

— Lawrence J. Chaffee (@HerbiePopnecka) January 16, 2022

In addition, there is an opinion on Twitter that 'NFT (non-fungible token) should be created for all pages of the book', and The Next Web says 'As you can see from the case of Spice DAO, virtual currencies and NFT neighborhoods are aware of copyright. It's low and can be a hotbed for fraud. '