Chapter 32 Job Hopping and Copyright
After marveling at this amazing coincidence in his past life and this life, at the end of the phone call with Yan Ke, Xiao Yao, who was quite embarrassed, also proposed to find a weekend for the four of them to get together, but Yan Ke refused. www.biquge.info In addition to Xiao Yao being in the capital Yanjing, Yan Ke, Yu Gang and Chen Jiwei are in different cities in three different provinces in China, they are still just ordinary high school students, and their personal and economic freedom is not high, but they can't take advantage of the weekend time to run around the country on a plane like Xiao Yao. Since Yan Ke and the other three were inconvenient, Xiao Yao was not reluctant.
After returning to the regular life of school for a while, Xiao Yao, who had no pressure on his studies, felt that his life was a little boring, so he quietly wanted to do something again.
Thinking of doing something, Xiao Yao also remembered one thing he hadn't finished yet, that is, the string version of "faded" had not yet been recorded. When he participated in that electronic music program at the beginning of the year, he had already told Gong Chen that she would help him record the string version of the song. It's just that the recording of the show didn't end at that time, Gong Chen couldn't pull away for the time being, and Xiao Yao himself was not in a hurry, so he put it on hold for the time being.
Before the recording of the last episode of the "Night of Champions" of that show, the "Golden Disc" award ceremony was held, and then Sun Tingting "went out", and Xiao Yao wanted to accompany Sun Tingting before she went abroad. When Sun Tingting went abroad, Xiao Yao began to prepare for the art examination of the performance department of Shencheng Drama Academy. This delay has been a month or two, and the programs that Gong Chen participated in have already ended, and it shouldn't be a problem for Xiao Yao to ask her to take a weekend to come over to record the string version.
Since Xiao Yao did not contact Gong Chen's agent during the show, nor did he have the phone number of her agent, he did not let Fang still contact Gong Chen's agent, but dialed Gong Chen's private mobile phone by himself.
Gong Chen won three single-issue championships in "Super Cool Electronic Music", and naturally became the most eye-catching singer in the last episode of the show, "Champion Night". In Xiao Yao's mind, Gong Chen should have skyrocketed in popularity through this show, and at this time when the show has only been a month, it should be very busy, and the recording of the string version should be arranged by herself according to her schedule, but after Xiao Yao contacted Gong Chen, Gong Chen said that he was relatively idle recently, and he could come over to help her record at any time.
After the end of the electronic music program, Gong Chen did increase a lot of popularity with his amazing performance, and Gong Chen's agent and record company really wanted to help Gong Chen go further in his singing career while the iron was hot, but after the show ended, the record company still didn't have any excellent songs suitable for Gong Chen. The two songs that Xiao Yao sang to Gong Chen in the show were all for participating in the show, and the copyright of the songs was still in his hands. After the show is over, let alone giving her the official version of the single, if you want to arrange Gong Chen to sing these two songs in other commercial performances, you must first buy the copyright from Xiao Yao's hand or get Xiao Yao's authorization.
Gong Chen's AMG record company did not try to contact Qijia Studio to buy the copyright of these two songs from Xiao Yao's hands. But Xiao Siqi has been thinking about poaching Gong Chen from AMG, where will it be so easy to make AMG get his wish? The more popular Gong Chen is, the more difficult it will be for him to dig in the future. After AMG contacted him, Xiao Siqi did not refuse head-on, but shirked it on the grounds that the copyright of the song was in Xiao Yao's personal hands and did not belong to the studio. When AMG proposed to discuss with Xiao Yao personally, Xiao Siqi gave Xiao Yao no exclusive agent and was making every effort to prepare for the opera art exam, which was not suitable for distracting him now, and dragged the matter down. He couldn't make a decision for Xiao Yao, so he could only delay it temporarily.
AMG felt that instead of using those songs of average quality to consume the image that Gong Chen had rarely established in the show, it was better to wait for the appearance of excellent works and be amazing again. So during the period after the show ended, AMG did not have a plan to give Gong Chen an album or single while it was hot, but just arranged for her to appear on a few variety shows to further consolidate her popularity. Therefore, Gong Chen was not very busy during this time.
After the art examination of Shen Opera ended, AMG originally wanted Gong Chen to come forward to contact Xiao Yao in a private capacity to find out if he intended to sell the copyrights of the two songs, but he didn't expect that Gong Chen, who wanted to let Xiao Yao rest for a few days and then contact him, had not yet looked for Xiao Yao, Xiao Yao called her first. Hearing that it was a matter that had been agreed upon a long time ago to record the string version of "faded", Gong Chen, who had already asked him and was indeed not too busy, naturally immediately said that he could be on call.
Xiao Yao took the initiative to call to continue to let her record the string version of "faded", and when she said that she could take her time as soon as she opened her mouth, Gong Chen was very happy at first, which showed that Xiao Yao really appreciated her voice very much. But after thinking about it, this also shows that Xiao Yao attaches great importance to this song, and Gong Chen suddenly has little confidence in persuading Xiao Yao to sell the copyright of this song.
Xiao Yao has always been a character who does when he thinks of it. After hearing that there was no problem with Gong Chen's schedule, he immediately agreed with Gong Chen to record on the weekend, and the location was naturally in the recording studio of his studio.
If he wants to use the studio's recording studio to record, Xiao Yao naturally wants to say hello to Xiao Siqi, so as not to have any conflicts with the studio in terms of the use of the studio. Xiao Yao, who is still a student, currently uses the studio's recording studio on weekends, and the studio takes care of him, and Xiao Yao has priority in using the recording studio on weekends, so Xiao Yao dared to make an appointment with Gong Chen to record this weekend, and then told Xiao Siqi that even if the original recording studio had been used on the weekend, Xiao Siqi would make adjustments for him, as long as Xiao Yao told the staff in charge of the studio in charge of the recording studio in advance or Xiao Siqi himself. Xiao Yao is now at home, so he naturally found Xiao Siqi directly.
Xiao Siqi knew that Xiao Yao had a special preference for the song "faded", and he had no opinion on Xiao Yao using a recording studio. However, since Xiao Yao mentioned that he was still looking for Gong Chen to record, Xiao Siqi also took the opportunity to tell Xiao Yao that AMG wanted to buy the copyright of the songs sung by Gong Chen in the two electronic music programs.
Xiao Yao naturally saw that Xiao Siqi didn't really want him to sell the copyright of these two songs to AMG, in fact, Xiao Yao himself didn't want to hand over "faded" to others to distribute. But after Gong Chen came over the weekend, he would inevitably mention this matter, and they would still have to face it at that time.
"I know you've always wanted to dig Gong Chen, but relying on the copyrights of these two songs, I'm afraid you can't force a company as big as AMG to let Gong Chen go, right?" Xiao Yao said, "The music circle is so big, it's not that no one can write songs for Gong Chen except for the people in our studio." I think the current situation is that on the one hand, AMG really failed to find a good song suitable for Gong Chen during this time, and on the other hand, Gong Chen's two songs in the show developed the ethereal and psychedelic characteristics of Gong Chen's voice, allowing people to see the other side of Gong Chen's voice. Whether it's AMG or Gong Chen himself, they may have some superstitions about me now. But it won't last long, will it?"
"Of course I know this, your dad and I are not such domineering people, if people don't sign our studio, they won't sell the copyright to others. Besides, you were indeed preparing for the art exam at that time, but I was just dragging it out, and I didn't explicitly refuse to say that I wouldn't sell it. Xiao Siqi smiled bitterly, "Whether it is me or Shen Lao, we have not written songs and produced albums for singers from other companies, nor have we asked that our works must be released by ourselves." ”
"It's mainly Gong Chen's situation, which makes me very entangled and unwilling now. Xiao Siqi continued, "You said that if Gong Chen decided not to sign our studio, it would be okay, if there is no thought, we just give them the copyright, I know that you also like that song "faded", at most we will cooperate with AMG to publish it." But her current attitude is ambiguous, only about consideration, neither saying that she is willing to change jobs, nor that she will not change jobs. I'm afraid that if the copyright of these two songs is given to AMG, she will change from wanting to change jobs to not wanting to change jobs, then how wronged we are!"
"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, and then proposed, "If she mentions the copyright of these two songs with us over the weekend, we will let her make a statement by the way." You know that the ownership of my songs must be kept in my own hands. If she doesn't want to change jobs, I'll license these two songs to her, and if it's commercial, we'll charge it on a per-time basis, and if it's released, we'll cooperate in the distribution, and the revenue will be shared by both parties. If she's willing to change jobs, she's going to leave anyway, and of course we'll do it ourselves when she comes. Anyway, these two songs are still the most suitable for her to sing, and the female singers in our studio can't sing them. But we'll have to let her take a stand first, and we'll tell her about the results. ”
"That's all there is to it. Xiao Siqi nodded helplessly.
On the surface, Xiao Yao recorded the string version of "faded" just for his own fun, and didn't mention anything about the release at all, so Gong Chen's coming over to record should only be a personal help, but when Gong Chen appeared in the recording studio of Qi Jia Studio on the weekend, he came with his agent and a business manager in the AMG business department who was responsible for the acquisition of song copyrights. As soon as he saw this formation, Xiao Yao knew that he would definitely not be able to get around the copyright issues of those two songs.
"This is Manager Tian of the commercial department of our AMG company, and he wants to talk to you about some business matters, so he came with me. After introducing his agent Zheng Yuzhi in a regular manner, Gong Chen was a little embarrassed to introduce Xiao Yao to the humanity of the Ministry of Commerce.
"I know, it's for the copyright of those two songs, right?" Xiao Yao said with a smile, "After the art examination ended, my father had already told me." But before talking to Manager Hetian, my dad and I would like to talk to you alone. Is that okay?" Xiao Yao wasn't sure if Gong Chen had already told AMG that Qijia Studio wanted her to change jobs, so he didn't want to talk about job hopping in front of Manager Tian of AMG's business department.
"Maybe it's a show collaboration or something, so I'll go and see it together. Gong Chen's agent whispered to Manager Tian of the Ministry of Commerce.
Manager Tian was only responsible for the purchase of the copyright of the song this time, and the singer's own commercial performance activities were arranged by the agent, so he nodded without any objection when he heard this.
"Ms. Zheng, Gong Chen, let's go to my father's office to talk, he is waiting in the office. Xiao Yao said to Zheng Yuzhi and Gong Chen. Zheng Yuzhi's performance obviously knew that Qi Jia's studio wanted to dig Gong Chen.
"Still, arrange for someone to greet Manager Tian, and then you can also go to my father's office. Xiao Yao still commanded the other party, and then took the two of them to Xiao Siqi's office. Fang is still preparing for the broker qualification exam, and Xiao Yao also wants her to participate more in these business things now.