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Category: New World Flashback

  • Frank Herbert’s Estate Once Targeted Virtual World Cosplayers of Dune — And Now Virtual Worlds Are Being Used to Promote Dune

    October 26, 2021

    With the new Dune movie now a huge international hit and part 2 just announced, I was thinking back to 2009, when lawyers with Frank Herbert's estate went after a small group of Dune fans cosplaying their favorite book in Second Life: [L]ast weekend Werribee and other members received legal notices from Linden Lab via…

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