Digital arts collective PleasrDAO has done the inevitable by releasing the legendary Wu-Tang Clan album. Once upon a time in Shaolin as NFTs.
The album is available for the equivalent of 1 US dollar. here. According DecipherPleasrDAO has only acquired the rights to 16 of the album's 31 tracks and will “share progressively larger pieces of that curated library with purchasers of the encrypted album over time.”
According to the original contract created by Wu-Tang Clan, the owners of Once upon a time in Shaolin They were prohibited from commercially exploiting the album until 2103. However, PleasrDAO has been negotiating with the group and producer Cilvaringz for the past six months.
PleasrDAO announced his plans for Once upon a time in Shaolin on Wednesday (June 12) after being granted a temporary restraining order against the previous owner, Martin Shkreli, for copying the album and playing it online without permission.
“It's time to bring music to the people,” wrote PleasrDAO. “Pleasr has been secretly working with the original artists and producers to release Once upon a time in Shaolin for the public. tomorrow we will invite you [to] Join us in this quest. True to its historical origins, this will not be a normal album sale but an artistic experiment.”
Earlier this week, PleasrDAO filed a livestreaming lawsuit against Shkreli. Once upon a time in Shaolin several times since the group acquired the album in 2021. Judge Pamela Chen has since temporarily banned Shkreli from streaming or disseminating copies of the album, saying PleasrDAO is likely to succeed on the merits of the lawsuit or raise significantly serious questions that go to the merits of the Confiscation Order, violations of the Law of Defense of Commercial Secrets.”
Starting Saturday (June 15), Once upon a time in Shaolin will be presented to the public as part of an exhibition at the Australian Museum of Old and New Art.
— ✨Pleasr (@PleasrDAO) June 12, 2024
Our master plan is to release music to the public in a way that honors the Wu-Tang Clan and pays them, while avoiding the streaming oligopoly; Every action we are taking is in service of that mission.
— ✨Pleasr (@PleasrDAO) June 11, 2024
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