Book excerpt: Heriot claims it was the intention of both Byrne and Heriot that they were co-creators of The Secret and would be so credited.Heriot also claims that Byrne had entered into a scheme to fraudulently transfer intellectual property rights in The Secret, to defraud Heriot and Drew Pictures of their investments and intellectual property rights in The Secret, to market The Secret and planned derivative works as the sole creation of Defendant Byrne, and to misappropriate Drew Pictures' copyright in the Rundowns, 2hr Paper Edit, Transcripts, and other materials authored by Heriot to create unauthorized derivative works.