Case out of the Eastern District of New York Could Expand the Scope of “Trade Secret” Qualifications.

Between 2007 and 2013, the American hip-hop group, Wu-Tang Clan, secretly recorded the album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, as a commentary on the crisis in the music industry and the “devaluation of music in the digital era.” Wu-Tang Clan produced only one hard copy of the album, and it never had a commercial release. In 2015, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin was purchased by Martin Shkreli for 2 million dollars. However, the album also came with strict restrictions regarding how/when/where the album could be played and/or reproduced for the next 88 years.