Zhou Fangyuan didn't know if he grabbed money or not, but he knew that the high cost of selling figures was indeed related to its cost to a large extent, and the cost of materials was indeed small, but what about labor costs, transportation costs, various tax costs, and the licensing costs of property owners? These are all money.

Fortunately, the intellectual property rights of the Warcraft series are already in the hands of the distant group, and this layer is regarded as a left-handed hand-to-right-handed, except for paying some taxes to the government, it doesn't cost much. But don't underestimate intellectual property because intellectual property is actually a very important right.

For example, in his previous life, Zhou Fangyuan saw a piece of news, saying that a certain Fusang otaku was arrested by the police for changing the head of the figure without authorization, and thousands of figure treasures were confiscated.

According to the press release at the time, the otaku was extracted from the double ponytail head of Nicole Yazawa in "Lovelive!", and the body of Darjeeling in "The Girl and the Chariot", and finally put together this new figure model. Some people may say that this kind of modification really brings together the best parts, and it doesn't have the slightest sense of disobedience, and all the otaku who have a habit of collecting figurines will definitely be amazed by such creative shooting.

But the question is, does it mean that the performance of this otaku being arrested means that "the play of assembling figures without authorization" can not be the fun of otaku chatting?

No, in fact, the core reason why this Fuso house was arrested by the police and confiscated thousands of hand-made models in his home by the police must be the bad behavior of "posting it on the sales website for two-dimensional sales". So, if the modification is just to satisfy your own viewing desires, then don't worry, there will be no problems.

Do you think this Japanese otaku's behavior is strange enough? Not only did he purchase a large number of figures, but he also reconstructed the body of the young lady on a large scale, so that everyone's charm could reach the highest level of appreciation.

However, this incident caused a lot of fluctuations on the Internet at that time, and many netizens quarreled about this matter.

It can be roughly summarized as: A netizen A thinks that Japanese law is wonderful, and there is no need for any intellectual property rights to exist, and they are just the means of developed countries to plunder the world. And netizen B replied to this, but as far as the situation at the time was concerned, it was not painful enough.

However, after all, from Zhou Fangyuan's point of view, he did not agree with netizen A's opinion.

First, he can spew out seemingly high-level words such as law, capitalism, copyright, freedom, moral kidnapping, etc., which proves that he has read a little bit of the article, and second, the reasoning and conclusion are completely reversed, and he is simply an ignorant and angry young man.

The famous "Duck Effect" perfectly and vividly illustrates the relationship between the process of acquiring knowledge and skills and the level of self-confidence that human beings have.

In Zhou Fangyuan's view, a product, service, and technology all contain countless efforts of creators, and for themselves, they often need to be sold in batches to be able to collect such costs and benefits and carry out the next creation.

For example, the above-mentioned figure model,For the copyright owner's business,The cost he needs to pay is far more than the raw materials of the figure and the designer's labor fee,It also includes product promotion,And the production of related film and television works (that is, the so-called cultivation process),This also needs to take into account the possibility of failure of the work,So far, there is no company that will be able to explode if you promote comics.,Often able to fail 9 successes 1,That's enough for this company to exist.,But we can't ignore the failure of these 9 animations. 。

Therefore, the sale of the figure is only one of the means for merchants to obtain funds back, and they will also use such copyright for other IP revenue (theatrical version, games, etc.), so, to be precise, the figure purchased by the user is only a small investment in the copyright of the figure. Yes, you have the right to toss this figure, but this space is only limited to your personal viewing range, if your secondary modification of the creation affects the sales efficiency of the main business, then it will inevitably need to be punished by the law.

Also,It's not that you can't be arrogant.,But please don't use the price that is only enough to buy a figure to shout about the right to enjoy the copyright of the entire figure.,You can buy the whole set of copyrights?

In addition, in the world we live in, respect for other people's possessions is not a public welfare act, and the purpose of this will eventually return to the protection of one's own interests: I think none of us would want to fall asleep watching TV at home, and then rush into the door with a large number of homeless people, rummaging through your refrigerator and cupboards, right?

The capitalists have constructed the concept of intellectual property rights to protect the fruits of their labor, and the performance of some people who put barbed wire and iron doors on the windows of their houses is not the same as the manifestation of profiteering?

Of course, if you are a digger whose standard of living is already so barren that you can no longer go any further, then it is true that you will support the so-called abolition of intellectual property rights, after all, it will only bring about an improvement in the quality of life for you, but not any gain. But the question is, doesn't this mean that this kind of behavior is a kind of selfishness? Isn't it the so-called "let us get to the conspiracy of capital, let us stupid people get a glimpse of the truth of this world"?

Besides, for the history of the development of this world, it is not difficult for us to find that all the achievements that have appeared in today's society are all born from the inventions and creations of the gods.

Physical biology includes Newton, Einstein, Planck, genetic engineering, all kinds of drugs for cancer treatment, etc., and there are also hybrid rice of Uncle Yuan Nongping in agriculture, and even if it is a spiritual civilization, we can see all kinds of books, films, videos, and so on.

Although there are many great gods who can unconditionally contribute their scientific research results to the world for the sake of public welfare, we should not regard such behavior as a "should/must", and thus despise and hate other scientists who have not taken such measures. In my opinion, there are indeed people in the world who are dissatisfied, and that is the baby, but after reaching a certain age, it is still the same, so the public will call such waste a "giant baby".

Moreover, we can look at it from another angle, if those bulls in history who unconditionally disclose their own patents can improve their scientific research environment through their own patent income, and form and cultivate a large number of capable scientific research workers, then how far can they change the world?

In addition, there is a core thing to know about the issue of intellectual property protection, that is, these protections are not indefinite, generally speaking, the protection period for an invention patent is about 20 years. As for why such timeliness is determined, the concept of "annuity" in economics textbooks can already give a thorough answer: compensate and motivate more people to put in output, and it will not have a negative effect on later creators to discourage scientific research.

No one should and there is no need to deny such protection, but it is possible to make some constructive criticisms, such as in the face of Disney's repeated extensions to the copyright of the "Mickey Mouse" image, from the first 50 years to the present nearly 100 years, this incident has angered a large group of American economists led by Friedman, and made a joint protest.

In the final analysis, a product like a figurine can indeed make money, and it is very profitable, but the premise is that the copyright is best in your own hands, otherwise it is a lot of money to buy a license from the copyright owner. Coupled with various other expenses, the price of the figure is expensive, which is also reasonable.

Therefore, there has always been a saying, saying that "a wall of figures, a suite in Beijing".

It is used to describe the expensive figurines.

However, in fact, figurines are also graded, and not all figurines are expensive.

In the figurine world, there are a total of 4 levels from top to bottom.

The most shining level is "Mine at Home", and the corresponding group of people can fly to Fuso to buy their favorite figurines at will.

The second level is "stepping into the well-off", although this group of people can not take a plane willfully, but they can still find purchasing agents to purchase the same source of goods produced in Japan.

Then there are the "ordinary people", who account for the largest proportion of their existence in society, and generally speaking, their wealth can only be used to buy some low-quality copycat figurines to comfort their love for anime characters.

There's not much of a problem with the content at this point.,The above introduction can basically fit the conventional understanding of anime fans.,But the next fourth one is much more interesting.。

It turns out that the "poor", they can actually "judge" to buy figures!

Think it's incredible? Think this statement is actually a spoof, Rao has the flavor of grandstanding?

However, this is not the case, in reality, there is indeed a channel to buy figures.

There is an interesting episode in the famous anime "Doraemon" - "If the Phone Booth", an ultimate magic weapon that can instantly turn the real world into a wish-like form after a wish is given.

Through it, Nobita once created a "world without money", so that money becomes a proof of debt, as long as you buy something, you can take money from others, the more "two sleeves of the breeze", the more rich the embodiment. It can be seen that if a two-dimensional enthusiast comes to this world, then he will inevitably pull the figure to his home without any scruples, of course, at the same time, accompanied by bags of banknotes.

But is there a problem? For otaku who have long regarded the three-dimensional world as a passing cloud, and regard the two-dimensional world as their everything, what does it matter if they have more debts?

However, it's not just fictional animation, even in the three-dimensional reality we are in now, we can still see the phenomenon of "poor people buying figures", such as "a large number of bulk goods S body, various animation scenery figures, 60 a catty".

Don't doubt your eyes, don't pinch your face, the figure only needs 60 yuan a pound is real, and even because of price competition, we can see that the 50 yuan a pound pricing business, is really a cabbage-style pricing. However, it needs to be emphasized that the figures bought by "Lunjin" are absolutely not comparable to the quality of the figures purchased by the other three classes of people, and it is very likely that even the cottage is not as good.

After all, just as the title suggests "bulk S body", the reason why they are cheap is because of the mutilated characteristics of these figures, coupled with the existence that the original workmanship is extremely average or even bad, they may only be waiting to be "burned" regardless of the sale.

In this case, for merchants, as long as they can sell money, even if a figure can only be sold for an average of one dollar, they also have to make money, after all, if they don't do this, these figures are facing the fate of being directly disposed of, and when the time comes, not to mention that they can't earn a penny back, they have to spend a sum of money to deal with these "garbage". It's good now, waste utilization, and the well-made genuine products themselves have brought enough profits to the producer, and these waste products are completely additional income.

In fact, several factories bought by Yuanfang Group will also produce a large number of similar waste products every day, originally according to the factory's plan, these things are to be transported to the garbage treatment plant to be directly disposed of, and then Zhou Fangyuan sent someone to arrange it, so that the people in the factory suddenly realized. After all, Zhou Fangyuan has such a good relationship with Brother Da Ma, it is not too easy to open a store to sell products like this. But Zhou Fangyuan did not operate this matter himself, but handed it over to his secretary.

Benefits, he also gave up all of them, with his current status, to be honest, there is really no need to do this.

Even in the figure industry, in fact, there is not much point for him to intervene, but it is just to cooperate with the common promotion of games, movies, etc., which is to get involved in the figure industry. Of course, there are a lot of IPs under the name of Yuanfang Group, including all aspects, animation, film and television works, etc., which can be regarded as a small supplement to Yuanfang Group. It's okay not to do it, it's okay to do it, as for the income from those discarded products, all of them were sent to Xiaohui's name by Zhou Fangyuan.

The conditions of the second uncle's family are now the worst in the family. Xiaohui goes to school outside, and the expenses are also large, and this money is a small gift for Zhou Fangyuan, who is an elder brother, to give to his sister.