037【Electronic Copyright】
Fengyun Entertainment Studio recently recruited two new people.
One is a girl named Yang Yanmei. She has just graduated from college and has a pretty face. Originally, Ke Liang asked her to come in to do finance, but the studio really has no account to pay attention to, so her main job became a clerk and a choreographer.
Another young man is Ning Huajian. He is currently a part-time job and is responsible for making Ye Cheng's songs into Flash videos. This is what Ke Liang asked. He wants to post Ye Cheng's songs to Kurui Video Network to further expand Ye Cheng's online popularity.
"Brother Liang, Brother Ye, please have tea." Yang Yanmei came over with two cups of tea. Although the trial salary was only 2,500 and she served three positions, the girl was particularly diligent and had no complaints.
"Thank you." Ye Cheng smiled at her.
Ke Liang took out a few envelopes and a bunch of invoices from his briefcase and said to Yang Yanmei: "Xiao Yang, please make a account."
"Okay." Yang Yanmei picked up the pile of things and went in to work.
Ye Cheng glanced at the envelope and saw the top envelope that read "WOWO Music Library's Songs Selling Income". He asked, "Is my songs also earned on the Internet?"
Ke Liang nodded and said, "I sold your five songs, "When You Are Old", "Mortal Song", "Once Upon a Time", "The First Experience of Love" and "I Can't Speech" to WOWO Music, of course it's just an electronic copyright."
"How much did you sell?" Ye Cheng asked expectantly.
Ke Liang compared a number with his hand: "Sold out of 80,000."
"So little?" Ye Cheng was a little puzzled by Ke Liang's move and said, "We are not short of this money now. It's better to let major websites play for free."
"There are additional conditions," Ke Liang explained, "WOWO Music promises to promote these five songs you have, which is more important than anything else."
Ye Cheng took a sip of tea and smiled and said, "That's not bad."
WOWO chatter has more than 1 billion users. If WOWO Music promises to help with promotion, Ye Cheng is even willing to give them the electronic copyright for free.
There are two main ways to sell electronic copyrights for songs:
One is to buy out directly exclusively, which small companies and independent musicians often choose because they can quickly recover funds;
Another type is to add share of the guaranteed fund. Large companies prefer to sell share of the fund, and they think it is too much to lose by selling the copyright directly.
Young singers like Ye Cheng can basically choose to sell off copyright. Because the website gives too little guarantee, only popular songs from big singers will give high guarantees.
By the way, the income from selling electronic copyrights by music companies will basically not be distributed to singers. If Ye Cheng signed with Huayan Music, he would not be able to get the online income of these songs.
Ke Liang took out another newspaper and handed it to Ye Cheng and said, "Look at this."
Ye Cheng took the newspaper and saw that the page was spread out, with the title: The Internet has set off a dispute over the copyright of songs.
"Recently, WOWO Music sued 589 songs of Honghu Cloud Music for infringement, demanding a claim of 10 million copyright fees, and Honghu Cloud Music countersued WOWO Music for infringement..."
After reading this report, Ye Cheng asked: "What's going on? WOWO actually started fucking with the Red Fox!"
Ke Liang explained: "At this year's Two Sessions, the central government said it would increase the protection of cultural copyrights, especially the online copyright of literary and artistic works. This is a signal sent by the government. Major music websites took the opportunity to seize the territory. Some time ago, WOWO Music spent 50 million to buy out Tianyi Music's music library, and now it has finally started to fight."
Ye Cheng said happily: "That's a good thing for musicians. The country has finally attached importance to copyright."
"It's useless," Ke Liang shook his head, "The environment will not change. This copyright dispute is just that Internet giants are biting dogs, which has little practical significance for singers and music companies."
"But overall it is still developing on the positive side." Ye Cheng still has hope for national policies. Take video websites as an example. In the past few years, online stolen broadcasts have been flying all over the world, but in the past two years, the country has strengthened its protection efforts, and non-copyright works from major video websites have been removed from the shelves.
"You said it right, you always have to develop on the better side," Ke Liang nodded and suddenly smiled, "Take your five songs as an example. Before playing WOWO music, we wouldn't have spent money to buy copyright, and we can't sue him."
Why didn't I sue the stolen version?
The reason is very simple. You spend a lot of energy and money to sue others, and even if you win, you won't be able to pay much. It's completely a practice that is not worth the effort.
Ye Cheng suddenly felt a little worried and asked: ""The First Experience of Love" just entered the first page of Qiandu Music's new song weekly chart. WOWO has bought the copyright of this song now, so he won't ask that he be removed from the shelves, right?"
"Don't worry, WOWO Music has been focusing on fighting with Honghuyun Music recently, and will not start a war with Qiandu Music for the time being." Ke Liang smiled contemptuously, "The persimmons are all soft. WOWO Music's butt is not clean, and now he only dares to find trouble for Honghuyun Music."
After the two talked about electronic copyright for a while, Ye Cheng couldn't help asking: "Brother Liang, has the program of Century Tiancheng Company been completed?"
Ke Liang's briefcase seemed to have become a treasure chest. He took out a letter from the bag and said, "You can see it yourself."
Ye Cheng carefully opened the letter and found that it was an invitation letter to "Good Songs in China". He asked strangely: "What the hell is "Good Songs in China"? A copycat version of "Good Voice in China"?"
Ke Liang explained: "It is a new program created by the original cast of "The Voice of China". It will start recording in half a month. I will listen to your song to the producer. He likes the song "Dongfengpo". The program team hopes that you will take "Dongfengpo" to participate in the competition."
"Then what should I prepare?" Ye Cheng couldn't wait to ask. No online live broadcast or music station can match the TV program that can be broadcast nationwide. He firmly believes that he can become a hit on "Good Chinese Songs".
"No need to prepare. You can sing it well. At the end of the month, I will take you to the sea in person." Ke Liang was also very proud of this. He waited at the gate of Century Tiancheng Company for two weeks before finally talking to the producer. The producer didn't want to be a child, so Ke Liang took out his phone and put it on the sample of "Oriental Po". The other party's attitude immediately turned around and warmly invited him to have coffee and talk in detail.
Ye Cheng hesitated for a moment and said, "Brother Liang, when I was singing "Dongfeng Po", I wanted to play the pipa myself, which might enhance the performance of the program."
"You can still play the pipa?" Ke Liang asked in surprise.
Ye Cheng smiled and said, "I learned it from a master of my grandfather's theater troupe when I was a child."
"I've forgotten that you know a lot of musical instruments," Ke Liang said with a smile, "Okay, I suggest to the program team that they should agree."
The two chatted until noon. Ke Liang was about to take Ye Cheng out for dinner, but a friend called him and called him away.
Pang Yuhua was not in the studio, so Ye Cheng had to go back alone. Walking on the road, he began to fantasize about standing in the center of the big stage, and millions of audiences below were screaming and shouting for him. What a glory it would be!
Fantasy is a fantasy after all, and people still have to face reality.
The current reality is that Ye Cheng still has to squeeze the bus back, and there is not even a subway nearby. While waiting for the bus at the station, a couple next to him were so fucked that they got goosebumps.
"Husband, would you please go to the movie tonight?"
"Dear, I'll have an appointment with a friend tonight, let's go someday."
"No, I'm going tonight."
"Be good, I made an appointment with someone."
"Is your friend important or me important?"
"Okay, okay, watch movies at night, don't be angry, my wife."
"Husband, you are so nice, you're so damn."
"It's wood."
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Before the bus arrived at the station, the couple next to him had already hugged each other and ate.
Ye Cheng, the single dog, was quite bored. He took out his cell phone and hesitated for a while. Finally, he couldn't help calling Gao Yuanyuan: "Yuanyuan, how are you doing recently?"
Gao Yuanyuan didn't seem to be disgusted with this title and replied: "It's not bad, by the way, congratulations on your successful song!"
It turns out that she has been following me, otherwise how could she know that my song is on the charts?
Ye Cheng laughed happily as he thought about it, and said, "I would like to thank you for helping me promote it."
Gao Yuanyuan said: "Nothing is wrong with me, your song is good."
The two chatted a few times, and Ye Cheng asked, "Are you free now?"
Gao Yuanyuan replied: "I just finished rehearsing the final homework and am preparing to go for dinner."
Ye Cheng felt that his opportunity had come, so he quickly said, "That's right, I said last time that I wanted to treat you to a meal, so why not just be today?"
"Well..." Gao Yuanyuan hesitated for a few seconds and finally said, "Okay, I'll wait for you at the gate of the Middle School of Drama."
"Okay, I'll come here right away!" Ye Cheng hung up the phone, rushed to the road and waved hard, "Taxi!"
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A thunderstorm broke out, and a lightning flashed out Lao Wang's eyes just now.
Chapter completed!