Chapter 315 Copyright Issues

Yixin is Meng Fan's editor-in-charge.,Even if it's "Campus Love Refers to Men", a work that has not been signed, it's also under his grouping.,Needless to say, Meng Fan's painting skills and painting style.,I know it very well.,Of course, it's also very strange.,It's true that Meng Fan's two-step comics are currently serialized before and after The difference in painting skills can still be seen.,It's just that the more you draw, the better.,No matter how strange you are, you can't question it in person.。

What's the use of questioning, don't allow others to improve, it's just that the progress is too great.

The deputy editor-in-chief and others have also read Meng Fan's cartoons, and they understand Meng Fan's painting skills, so they unfold the sketch and see the comics, although they still feel the beauty of the world, but they are not as surprised as Goro Takahashi and others when they first met.

It's just that after the painting skills and style, I look at the plot and character design, and these people's eyes are lit up again.

The content of the three episodes is definitely not much, but I also saw Meng Fan's ability in screenwriting and storyboarding.

After reading it, the first thought was why it was gone, which was the desire to continue watching.

Looking back, some images can already appear in my mind, and some of them seem to be difficult to erase from my mind, deeply imprinted, and deeply remembered.

Not to mention the tip of the iceberg of the world background structure revealed in a short space, these two points alone are still enough to be called a good comic.

Looking at the outline and gallery again, it can be seen how exaggerated Meng Fan's preparation for this comic is.

Yixin, the deputy editor-in-chief and others left the sketch and looked at Meng Fan, getting to the point.

The deputy editor-in-chief's surname is Zhu, who is not very old, about forty years old, and looks like a very strict person, and says, "Mr. Meng, please allow me to ask you a question first. Yesterday's fighting incident in Neon, many people know that you are in it, including those neon people, may I ask, what does Kodansha think about this?"

Without waiting for Meng Fan to answer, he added: "I don't mean anything else, it involves whether you and Kodansha can successfully sign a contract, and whether the manga can be successfully serialized in the magazine published by Kodansha." And this is also related to the contract between us. Whether you sign it or not, it will definitely have an impact on our contract, right?"

Meng Fan smiled and said, "That's right, before us, Kodansha had already contacted me. Of course, it doesn't mean that the fighting incident doesn't affect this at all. However, if there are no surprises in the current development of events, there is no problem in signing the contract.

After taking a sip of water, Meng Fan was ready to take the initiative into his own hands, and said: "When I was in Neon, in fact, I was already able to sign a contract with Kodansha, but because I was still preparing to serialize it on the domestic website, I didn't sign it directly, leaving some room for the domestic website to put forward requirements and conditions, if it can promote a win-win situation, or even a win-win situation, it will naturally be the best."

On the other hand, I can authorize the copyright in Neon to Kodansha, and I can license the copyright in Huaxia to you, but in fact, the two have little to do with each other. The only possibility of overlap is the ownership of the copyright of the animation, of course, I can also put this in my own hands first, and when the conditions are ripe, I can find the team myself, or cooperate with you and Kodansha to produce it. ”

Meng Fan took out the very simple contract content that he had listed, and said to Deputy Editor-in-Chief Zhu: "I will give you the serial copyright, single book publishing, fan-creation copyright, and audio of Huaxia's network and comics, and I want to keep the rest of the copyrights, such as the right to adapt film and television dramas." As for the copyright of games and animations, I am very happy to cooperate with Penguin Animation. ”

When Deputy Editor-in-Chief Zhu heard this, he frowned slightly and pondered for a moment, and said: "Actually, you can authorize us all the other copyrights, after all, we can find much larger resources than you, and we can also find better buyers for you, from the perspective of interests, we are the best choice." ”

Meng Fan smiled and shook his head: "This is true from the perspective of interests, but the perspective of interests is not the first angle on my side. ”

Meng Fan didn't say that he didn't care about money at all.

"I also want to make money, but I don't want my work to become an existence that is over with a wave of money, so I care a lot about whether I can call the shots. Of course, it may be that in the end, my vision is not good, but how to put it, it is always more comfortable to destroy it in my own hands. As for the resources you mentioned, I can actually find them, but it's not as easy to find as your big companies. ”

All authors attach great importance to copyright, especially after having the confidence to negotiate, they naturally want more copyright to stay on themselves, and the interests are really secondary, not only Meng Fan and Sleepy Lord, who have mines at home, think so, but most authors also think so, at least in their bones, but sometimes it's really just reality, and few people are willing to exchange their works for some money to be taken out and changed.

Of course, negotiations are all like this, and at the beginning, they must have been reluctant to lose a city and a pool, but also to leave themselves a room for counteroffer and compromise.

In the end, Meng Fan adhered to several of his bottom lines, signed a cooperation agreement with Penguin Animation Network similar to Kodansha, and also authorized several more copyrights, such as animation peripherals and adaptation copyrights, such as film and television adaptations and games, Meng Fan must be firmly in his hands.

As for the animation, although it is still in Meng Fan's hands for the time being, Meng Fan may promise to wait for someone from the Kodansha to come and talk to the three parties.

The contract was also drafted, and neither party signed it.

Meng Fan contacted Goro Takahashi to explain, and Goro Takahashi hung up the phone and called again soon after, and Kodansha would send him and relevant personnel to China tomorrow.

As soon as Yixin and Deputy Editor-in-Chief Zhu heard this, they didn't plan to go back, they stayed here and waited for the people from Kodansha to come over, and if everything went well, they would sign the contract directly.

Meng Fan went to stop the car and send them to the hotel, and the Pingtou brother who was still here heard that he drove the car and helped Meng Fan send them to the hotel.

Qin Geng also drove the car, but if her car sent them back, it would definitely have to be squeezed, and it was not as spacious as the Land Rover driven by Brother Pingtou.

"Is it so profitable to write now?"

Last time, Meng Fan saw Brother Pingtou's mount but a little donkey, Brother Pingtou said that he had a car, but it was more convenient to deliver coffee and milk tea during the day and drive a small electric donkey, and at night, he drove to pick up Yan Xixi, but he didn't expect it to be a Land Rover of more than one million.

Zhang on the side said enviously: "I don't know if I make money by writing, but I know that Brother Pingtou is a second-generation demolition." It is said that getting rich overnight is like a dream, and the probability is very low, but in Huaxia, it is really not a dream, and there are a lot of them. The demolition households in a place like Hangzhou can be divided into thousands to thousands. The location is a little better, definitely more than that. ”

Seeing that Meng Fan also showed a look of envy, Zhang immediately stopped doing it: "You are envious!"

Meng Fan said: "I'm not envious of demolition, I'm thinking about whether I have to buy a car." ”

Zhang ridiculed: "What kind of car do you buy, where do you want to go, run there." ”

"Brother Meng, you're back!"

Meng Fan was about to turn around and go back to the studio, it was indeed a little cold outside, and a person hurriedly walked over from the side of the road, it was Charlie.

Meng Fan estimated that Charlie was parking near here, and asked with a smile: "Inspector, are you still going to the studio so late?"

"It's great that you're here!"

Charlie quickened his pace, came to Meng Fan, and asked, "Are you busy now?" There is a cooperation list here in the studio, and it is related to Di Dao, I have already gotten off work and rushed over. A movie, a Hollywood blockbuster, Chinese dubbing, our studio got some work. If you're not busy, come with me. ”

Meng Fan thought about it, it was really okay next, Wu Tong estimated that it would take some time to finish, and after signing a contract to brush up the [shed worms] in the chocolate factory, he basically didn't go, and he felt a little sorry, so he nodded and said, "Then you go first, I'll come later." ”

Of course, the hobby of dubbing is the key.

"Good, good. ”

Charlie rubbed his hands, and Zhang and the others, who were standing outside the yard to deliver people, greeted him with a smile, and walked quickly to the chocolate factory, it was really getting colder and colder.