Chapter 1221 - Piracy
Writing is actually a very boring problem, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will have mental problems.
This is actually the same as the actors, almost everyone has mental problems, it's just that the condition is good or bad.
Isn't there a saying?
Mentally ill people have a wide range of ideas, and brain-damaged children have a lot of joy.
This sentence is not rough.
Many famous writers, such as the people of Treasure Island, like to go in groups to have fun as a way to vent their stress, such as Gu Long.
Relatively speaking, Yin Jun cannot be regarded as a real literati.
He wrote, and he wrote, and he didn't really immerse himself in those stories.
To put it bluntly, Yin Jun is just a porter, he tried to move those scripted stories from his previous life to the present, and his perspective can be said to be God's perspective, condescendingly watching and watching the development of these stories.
This is also an important reason why Yin Jun has never been a little bit out of this world.
When you know everything, you can understand everything, and you also expect to know the future development, then, is life really meaningful?
In other words, is this kind of life really happy?
Yin Jun didn't have an answer, but he had been working hard to integrate himself into this world.
Therefore, Yin Jun's life is not only about realizing his dreams, he also has a time to rest, even when he is on the way to write "The Dream of the Covered Bridge".
In a villa in the middle of the mountain, the young man sat opposite an old man.
The old man was slightly fat, wore gold-rimmed glasses, and looked a little amiable.
Don't look at him like the old man next door who can be seen everywhere on the street, but he is one of the most well-known Chinese living in the world.
After twenty years, this one can be removed.
Because his name is Kim Yong.
Because he wrote fourteen of them.
Because among those born in the 60s-90s, there is almost no one who has not watched him, and even if it is not, those TV series and movies adapted from it must have been watched.
So Jin Yong is known to everyone, and no one knows it.
For now, Jin Yong's fame is only spreading among overseas Chinese, and his influence has not entered the mainland.
This is also the reason why Yin Jun feels that after 20 years, Jin Yong will be the most famous living Chinese person.
Yin Jun doesn't remember the specific time very clearly, because he was not a book lover in his previous life, but Yin Jun knew how Jin Yong got into the bookshelves of mainlanders.
Pirated editions.
In the late 80s, a publishing house pirated Jin Yong's copy.
At first, they changed their names, and then they changed their writers' names, thinking that they could cover their ears and steal the bell.
It's just that later, everyone thinks it's boring to hide it like this, and I'm not afraid that Jin Yong will come to me to settle accounts, so let's publish it under my real name.
As a result, the name Jin Yong was known one after another.
By the time the publishing house in Xiangjiang and the mainland negotiated the introduction of genuine Jin Yong in the 90s, in fact, the whole country was already flooded with dozens of editions of Jin Yong, and those who should have read it had basically finished reading it.
In this case, of course, Kim Yong's sales will not be too good, and it is said that Jin Yong is still very unhappy about this.
He and Spielberg are actually the same kind of people, pick up a pen or a director's microphone, they are artists, and when they put it down, they are businessmen who are no more serious.
Seeing that there are at least tens of millions or hundreds of millions of copies of himself circulating in the mainland, but he can't receive any copyright fees, do you think businessman Jin Yong will be angry?
However, as the saying goes, if you lose your horse, you will not know if you are blessed.
In those days, people really didn't have the money to buy genuine copies that cost tens or hundreds of yuan at every turn, so they could only buy cheap pirated copies, or they didn't know that they were pirated copies, so they bought them.
With the help of pirated copies, Jin Yong's name is thunderous in the third- and fourth-tier cities of China.
With such a deep heritage, in the future, the adaptation of each of Jin Yong's TV series and movies can gain super high popularity and ratings, which can bring a lot of wealth to Jin Yong, who has complete film and television copyrights.
Compared with the royalties of publishing books, these film and television works that can be adapted over and over again, as well as games, etc., are much more profitable.
Jin Yong also relies on these copyright incomes, with an annual income of more than 100 million, and can be called the most profitable literati.
As for the 1 yuan royalty for the adaptation of Jin Yong's martial arts drama later, it is a gimmick.
Because that dollar doesn't mean anything.
His TV series is one dollar, it doesn't mean that all of it is one dollar, right?
The current version of his TV series is a dollar, and the next version is not necessarily a dollar, right?
The copyright of his TV series in China is one dollar, but it does not mean that the copyright of Baodao, Xiangjiang, Singapore and other places is also one dollar, right?
After 2015, the literary world said anything about the concept of IP, but Jin Yong played the concept of IP 20 years ago, and ordinary people can't compare it at all.
It's just that now, Jin Yong has not yet been high-spirited in the future, and when he was at the height of his prestige, he really went to Huashan to engage in a Huashan sword, which caused a lot of martial arts fans to go crazy.
On the contrary, Jin Yong is still a little depressed.
"Ah Jun, what do you say about those publishing houses in the mainland? Why didn't they even say hello to me, and directly published my printing in a grand manner? The most important thing is that they are not in my name!" Jin Yong pointed to the stack on the table and said to Yin Jun with a wry smile.
This is a few days ago, when a friend went to Huajing, he went around the Xinghua bookstore, bought a lot of pirated copies, and gave them to Jin Yong.
Jin Yong has long dreamed that he can enter the mainland and let his parents and fellow villagers see his achievements.
But that's not what he was looking forward to.
No matter how poor and difficult the mainland is, you tell me that it is okay for me to pay less tax on copyrights, but bookstores in a country like yours openly sell pirated editions, and pirated editions are still printed by the same state-owned publishing houses.
Jin Yong, who couldn't get angry, asked Yin Jun to come over.
He knew that Yin Jun had a good relationship with the mainland, so he asked Yin Jun to help.
Yin Jun and Jin Yong naturally had a lot of dealings.
In the past two years, Kylin Satellite TV has remade a lot of Jin Yong martial arts dramas, just like Yin Jun's old friend Gu Long's martial arts dramas, Jin Yong martial arts dramas are very popular, and if they don't get a rating of about 40%, even if they are poorly made.
Jin Yong can't say that he looks at Yin Jun differently, after all, everyone is in business, Yin Jun buys copyrights, and he sells copyrights.
But when Jin Yong is interviewed on weekdays, he often praises Yin Jun as a real genius, and martial arts dramas and entertainment culture will definitely be carried forward by Yin Jun.
This is also a favor.
So Yin Jun came over to listen to the nagging of his seniors.
What's more, this is not just a simple nag, Yin Jun knows more about the pirated version than Jin Yong, and the situation of the pirated version is more complicated and shameless than what Jin Yong saw.
In fact, in 2020, China's piracy industry is still thriving, but the quality of the people is getting higher and higher, so it largely offsets the impact of various piracy.
Let's not talk about scientific and technological innovation, just music, movies, comics...... Wait, which one is not a piracy? Isn't it that the creator has worked hard for so long, but in the end, many people can't even drink porridge?
Jin Yong is quite good, he became famous very early, and he is based on Xiangjiang Treasure Island, so he is famous and rich.
Even if the mainland market doesn't want it at all, he can live comfortably.
But you can't look at it that way.
Yin Jun has not forgotten the current time node.
It's 1982.
In the future, the vigorous development of the piracy industry has not actually developed and has not formed a scale effect.
Jin Yong came to Yin Jun to talk about this, and a light suddenly flashed in the young man's heart.
If you start working hard now, will it bring some changes to this market?
Not to mention anything else, in terms of pirated books, I have a way to fight with them well.
Thinking of this, Yin Jun groaned, "They have their own ideas, they are all a group of people who don't understand the law, you don't have to care." However, with the current situation in the mainland, it may not be so easy for your book to be published, at least in terms of royalties, it may be very small. ”
"Don't worry about that. Jin Yong waved his hand, he is not old yet, and he does not love money as much as he will in the future, "In the past ten years, I didn't care about this money." As long as they can read my genuine version. Ah Jun, as long as you can do this, then I will accept a favor from you. ”
"You're too polite. Yin Jun said with a smile, "This matter is actually not just your problem, I have seen a lot of families who are treated roughly like this." I don't think that's what the people at the top meant, but what the people at the bottom do for their own selfish gain. Instead of me going to help, why don't we writers in the Xiangjiang literary and artistic circles form a visiting group and go to Huajing for exchanges, and by the way, we can tell them the meaning of the Xiangjiang literary and artistic circles, what do you think?"
"Organize a group to go to the mainland?"
Jin Yong frowned.
At present, Xiangjiang is a dragon and a tiger, and people who are inclined to Britain and China and those who are inclined to the interior have become a group, and there is an endless stream of various visiting groups, some of them flying to the mainland, and some of them to the United Kingdom.
If he organized a group to go to the mainland at this time, he would have directly stood in line, showing that the Xiangjiang literary and artistic circles, at least he Jin Yong, are hardcore supporters of the mainland.
It's not a question of whether he wants it or not, and it's not a question of whether Jin Yong dares or not.
It's such a thing, which can't be decided hastily at all, and needs to be carefully considered.
Just for the sake of a pirated book in the mainland, it seems that it is not in line with the greatest benefit.