Chapter 368: Cover Rights
Although "Later" is a lyrical song, Chen Minhao stood in the middle of the stage after singing, facing the cheers like a landslide and tsunami, his breathing was a little short, his heart was pounding, and he was excited to try.
Chen Minhao is not a person who has never seen a big scene, and the audience in the finals of "Artist Trainee" exceeded 10,000. And the state at that time was a competition, and the level of tension and excitement was far greater than now.
However, there are so many people in the audience waving glow sticks and singing "Later" with themselves, which stimulates Chen Minhao's cerebral cortex through visual and auditory ———— Chen Minhao is not nervous, but excited and hi~
Chen Minhao and Yao Yiyi chatted a few more words on stage, and then he bowed deeply three times to the audience in different directions, then turned around and slowly walked off the stage.
As soon as Chen Minhao walked backstage, Wang Gang came up and patted Chen Minhao on the shoulder and said: "Chen Minhao, you are doing very well today! I watched your video of "Artist Trainee" before and found that the bigger the scene and the more people you have, the better your state. ”
The way Wang Gang trained Chen Minhao seemed random, but in fact, he did a lot of homework. He watched Chen Minhao cut of "Artist Trainee" twice repeatedly.
Chen Minhao's performance at that time was qualified and excellent as a trainee in Wang Gang's opinion. But in just two years, Chen Minhao's identity has never debuted as a trainee to become one of the top Chinese singers, and the level at that time was a bit insufficient.
With the same live singing skills and the same typhoon, as a trainee or a newcomer who has just debuted, he may be able to be commended. But as a top Chinese singer, live singing skills and typhoons may become his shortcomings and become reasons for others to diss.
Chen Minhao was also worried that he played abnormally as a "mysterious guest" this time and created the scene of the car accident.
Chen Minhao knows very well: if he makes a mistake, then this mistake will accompany him for the rest of his life, and he will be pulled out from time to time for public inventory and Ling Chi.
But Chen Minhao still came with determination, and his performance this time exceeded all expectations.
While Chen Minhao and Yao Yiyi's "Later" sung amazed the audience, "Chen Minhao is the mysterious guest of Yao Yiyi's concert" and "Chen Minhao and Yao Yiyi sang "Later" fragments" quickly fermented on the Internet.
[Real name blows up Chen Minhao!Those black fans who take Chen Minhao's singing clips during his trainee period to diss his singing skills, please listen!!]
[When will Chen Minhao hold his own concert!!]
[Originally, I accompanied my boyfriend to listen to Yao Yiyi's concert, but the mysterious guest was Chen Minhao, happy~ My boyfriend didn't make friends in vain. 】
[I just watched the song "Later" on Netease Cloud Music, and the music reviews have exceeded 200,000 ~ excellent]
Many singers envy Yao Yiyi for inviting Chen Minhao as a "mysterious guest". When a small number of well-informed singers heard that Chen Minhao gave Yao Yiyi the right to cover "Later", they used their brains.
The next day, Chen Minhao's phone was blown up.
"Hey, Xiao Chen, I'm Zhang Ye. When I presented you with the Golden Melody Awards last year, you said at the time that you are a beginner and have a long way to go, but I listened to a few songs you wrote at that time, and I knew that you were not a thing in the pool, and sooner or later you were going to soar into the sky.
I just didn't expect this day to come so soon. Knowing that you are busy, I will cut straight to the point. Here's the thing, I have an artist who wants to cover two of your songs, do you think it's okay?"
"Mr. Chen, hello, I'm Wang Min, the channel manager of Tianying Music, and a singer in the Sun Kingdom wants to buy the cover copyright of your "Later" re-lyrics through us. In addition, there are two film and television companies that want to buy the copyright of "Later" as the theme song of the TV series. ”
"Mr. Chen, I'm Li Wenjie, do you remember me? I participated in "Artist Trainee" with you. In the first group matching, we were still opponents~ Although we were abused by you. I want to cover your "Fireworks Are Easy to Cold", can you watch it?"
"Chen Minhao, hello, I am Wu Qianqian, the assistant director of "I Am a Singer", the next issue of "I Am a Singer" is about to start recording, we have invited a lot of big-name singers, are you interested in participating?"
.......
Chen Minhao's mobile phone rang non-stop: there was an endless stream of people talking about covers, cooperation, endorsements, and interviews.
Chen Minhao's response was very uniform: "Thank you for your love." But as you know, I don't have an independent studio right now, so I'm going to have to listen to my agent about these things. So, do you have the contact information of my agent, Kang Hui?"
Kang Hui was itching to watch from the side, but on the other side, he had to be patient to get Chen Minhao to "transfer" calls one after another.
In the evening, Kang Hui drank a few teas to moisten his throat, yawned, and asked Chen Minhao:
"A lot of singers nowadays want the right to cover your songs. They originally wanted to invite songs, but I refused on the grounds that you were too busy to write songs for them. But if they want the cover rights now, it's hard for us to prevaricate back for the same reason.
But if you give them the cover rights of the songs, I feel unwilling, after all, although more than a month has passed, the songs in your album are still on the charts, and the cover rights are given to them, and the original songs you sang will definitely receive some impact. But the cover rights are not given to them, and it seems that we are not close to people and too stingy. ”
Kang Hui said that he couldn't help but smile in the end, and continued: "I never thought that I would one day be troubled by the fact that the artists I brought were too good. ”
Chen Min, who was sitting opposite Kang Hui, thought to himself: What can I say: Congratulations on becoming the envy of other agents? He simply didn't say anything, picked up the teacup on the table and drank it all.
Kang Hui kicked Chen Minhao's calf lightly with his toes, and said, "You are talking, what do you think about other singers wanting to cover the rights?"
Chen Minhao picked up the teacup and shook it, and said: "In fact, from a legal point of view, there is no such thing as "cover right". However, what people often call "covers", in the case of unauthorized access, is actually the original singer who infringes on the 'performance right'. ”
Kang Hui was stunned for a moment and said, "Speak human words." ”
Chen Minhao thought for a while and said: "Legally speaking, it is more complicated for us to exchange interests in the form of 'cover rights', and the pricing is also very troublesome. I plan to let all singers cover the songs "Later" and "See You Again" without paying them, but the other songs will not be talked about for the time being, what do you think?"
Kang Hui was stunned for a moment, thought about it and said two words: "Wonderful!"