As an extremely well-known comic book author in the circle, and even on the Spring Festival Gala, Xia Da's popularity in the comic circle is undoubtedly the top one, and Xia Dao has always regarded her as a signboard, whenever there are new authors under it, and even other great god authors doubt the content of the contract, Xia Dao can confidently reply "Xia Da is signing such a contract, what else are you worried about"?

With high popularity, baby face, and demure temperament, Xia Da undoubtedly meets the comic idol in the hearts of many people, just like the girl who came out of the comics, and brought many fame and benefits to Summer Island.

But Summer Island only uses this contribution, and even the contributions of all authors, as a tool to make money for himself!

The founder of Summer Island is called Yao Feila, a middle-aged man, who used to be a comic book author, and was also deceived by unscrupulous companies in the circle, and his works were deceived by others, and finally spent 100,000 yuan at his own expense to redeem the copyright.

This kind of experience makes all the authors believe that he is from the same author's background as himself, and knows the hardships and difficulties of comic book authors, and he himself has never once stated: "There are too many liars now, I will help you check the gates, and I will not let you encounter this kind of thing." ”

It sounds like a legend, a story of being born from the grassroots and helping the grassroots after it is developed.

But

Reality makes people helpless, power makes people cruel, Yao Feila, who was deceived by the pit in the past, after creating Summer Island by himself, used more cruel means and contracts to deceive the author.

According to the words of the online literature circle, as a well-known "god-level author", can you believe that if you sign a contract with the platform, you will not receive any employment salary and signing fee for 10 years?

Can you imagine that such a famous author actually signed the same contract as a newcomer, and his income came from the manuscript fee, royalties, and work licensing fees given by the platform where the work was published?

This is normal for an average author, because the average author's income is basically derived from manuscript fees.

But a god-level writer like "Tang Family Three Youths", such a situation is inevitably too ridiculous, and the popularity he has worked so hard to accumulate and the works he has created, but the largest income is taken away by the company, which is an incredible thing for any industry.

It is equivalent to saying that the channel for the rise of an author has been blocked, and no matter how famous you are and how hard you work, you are the same as a newcomer!

But something like this just happened!

Comic book authors, it is more difficult to defend their rights than online writers, and the contract signed is simply a deed of sale, but people are soft-spoken, and it is not okay not to sign!

This is a bit of a no-brainer, so let's just give you two examples of contracts!

For example, when Summer Island signed contracts with certain companies, Summer Island Studio also asked Xia Da to sign a supplementary agreement: if we breach the contract, the author will be responsible for tens of millions of compensation!

How ridiculous!

All copyrights belong to Summer Island, all operations are controlled by Summer Island, and the author does not have any ownership and control over his author, in this case, Summer Island breaches the contract, but the author has to pay tens of millions? !

Which cow guy came up with such a bull contract?!

For another example, in the second provision in the author's confirmation letter of Summer Island, except for the author's right to "authorship and the right to maintain the integrity of the work", "all other copyrights belong to Summer Island"!

In this contract, it is very "reasonable" to explain in detail: "And the property rights, reproduction rights, distribution rights, exhibition rights, broadcasting rights, information network dissemination rights, adaptation rights, translation rights, and the sublicensing and distribution license rights of the above rights belong to Summer Island, and Summer Island has the right to dispose of the work by itself without the consent or signature of the author!"

And in the third provision, it is even more speechless: "The author confirms that in the course of any cooperation and commercial activities carried out by the third-party work, there is no need to pay any fee to the author, and the author has received sufficient income from the cooperation on Summer Island!"

All rights belong to Summer Island, and all income belongs to Summer Island!

Even in the subsequent clauses, the author is required to "defend Summer Island in public opinion" under any circumstances, "refrain from making inappropriate remarks", and compensate for all losses in case of violation!

When Lin Mu heard these contents, he couldn't believe his ears, there were still such shameless people in the world??!!

Such an overlord clause, if it is one of several types of contracts, such as one of the "share, buyout" and the like, it is normal.

Divided into works that are suitable for those with good grades, the A signature in the online literature circle is like this, the author has the relevant copyright, but the daily income depends on the reader's subscription and reward.

Most of the buyouts are authors who have poor grades or have no confidence in themselves, for example, the ghost blows the lamp is a buyout, as long as the website pays the author "how much is a thousand words" manuscript fee, then all the copyrights of the work belong to the website, similar to the website in a pile of fake antiques to find genuine goods, is a voluntary contract between the two parties.

But this is obviously not the case with Summer Island, which is quite similar to the meaning of the entertainment industry "You accept the unspoken rules and may not become famous, but if you want to make money in this industry, you must accept the unspoken rules", what room for resistance does a weak author have in the face of such a treaty?

If you don't sign it, even if the new work is negotiated with the platform before, Summer Island will not allow it to be serialized online, and the inability to serialize means that there is no income, and the hard work will be hidden

Some people may ask: Isn't such an overlord clause a violation of the law?

Isn't it invalid if it violates the law?

Not to mention whether the powerful will be reasonable in the face of vulnerable groups, let's just say that this author's confirmation letter, after the confirmation of the lawyer, except for the clause in Article 7 that restricts the author's words and deeds, there are restrictions on the author's personal freedom, the other provisions do not violate the law.

In other words, although this clause puts the author at a great disadvantage, it is still legitimate!

Just like Yang Yongxin, everyone knows about his atrocities, everyone knows that he is destroying humanity, but he is still legitimate!

Legitimate!

In the author's acknowledgment letter from Summer Island, all the property rights of the works that can bring income to the author are transferred to Summer Island, and the author only retains the moral rights. Not only that, but for any third-party cooperation and commercial activities, Summer Island "does not have to pay any fees to the author".

Under such terms, Summer Island has a large number of well-known comic copyrights, and it is precisely because of these well-known copyrights that its valuation can reach as much as 500 million!

What made Lin Mu even more angry was that even he had become the other party's tool to collect money!