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And also will be unauthorized since they own no rights to derivative work (or even the original work)

Perhaps it will be a series inspired by the book (the physical object) not the contents/story

They could release a series about overpaying for a copy of dune at auction and technically fulfill their mission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodorowsky%27s_Dune

> Salvador Dalí was set to play the Emperor and claimed he wanted to be the highest-paid actor in Hollywood history. He asked for $100,000 per hour to act in the movie. Jodorowsky accepted, but then reduced the Emperor’s scenes so that Dalí would be needed for no more than one hour with the rest of his lines spoken by a robotic lookalike. Dalí accepted on condition that the plastic lookalike was donated to his museum, and that his throne was to be a toilet made up of two intersected dolphins.

Absolutely incredible.

> And also will be unauthorized since they own no rights to derivative work (or even the original work)

I'm sorry for the confusion, but my post was supposed to be humorous.

On reflection I think there's nothing that can actually be said about this auction that can possibly be as funny/sad as the original situation.

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