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LOS ANGELES — Wu-Tang Clan's unorthodox album release strategy of only selling one copy of its secretly recorded album just got even more unconventional
After the 31-song double album Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is auctioned off, the owner won't be able to legally share it with anyone for 88 years because of a binding copyright
Producer Cilvaringz explained the copyright on the project's new website:
We initially wanted the buyer to do whatever they wanted with it. But when we realized how much commercial interest there was, we began to understand that allowing it to play out in that way would undermine its trajectory as an artwork, even if no amount of replication could touch the original. We felt that retail commercialization and mass replication would dilute the status of the album as a one-off work of art and compromise the integrity of our statement. ... We thought long and hard about whether to defy art world conventions and transfer all rights to public release to the buyer. But we genuinely felt that a swift public release after such a radical concept would neutralize the statement we are making. Read more...
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