Shkreli Claims He Retains Wu-Tang Copyright, Album Isn’t Secret

Feb. 3, 2026, 8:25 PM UTC

Convicted fund manager Martin Shkreli fired back in a legal dispute over a one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album, claiming members of the rap group breached a contract by selling an investor group copyrights he still owned.

The investor group, PleasrDAO, filed a trade secrets suit against Shkreli for making and keeping a copy of “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” after it paid $4 million for the album. But the investors lack any copyright interest in it, Skreli told the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York in a brief filed Monday.

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