As soon as Tang Qi's words fell, Yuan Zhi's face changed slightly.

Because, Yuan Zhi's film and television company, starting from the model of big IP + small fresh meat at the beginning, has repeatedly made a lot of money.

However, as some popular IPs are being hyped, the price is getting higher and higher, but Yuan Zhi found that in fact, the real key to the big IP + small fresh meat model is the small fresh meat, not the big IP.

So, for the sake of profit, Yuan Zhi's film and television company began to no longer buy popular IPs at high prices, but directly asked the screenwriter team to imitate a certain big IP.

The advantage of this is that the cost is significantly reduced.

Especially after the success of the first attempt, Yuan Zhi found that especially some popular Internet IPs, in fact, after the real adaptation, the influence is not as great as imagined.

On the contrary, people pay more attention to the starring stars themselves, especially now that small fresh meat is popular.

And because they can operate and adapt film and television works faster and better than the original work, even if the original author angrily accuses them of plagiarism and imitation, it is difficult to successfully defend their rights.

Because imitation and plagiarism are different.

And Tang Qi's proposal to the Screenwriters Association to publicly remove this kind of screenwriter is actually a great deterrent.

Don't look at the Screenwriters Guild in China, it's just a semi-official association hanging under the Film and Television Association, and it doesn't have much power, and it's completely different from the Screenwriters' Guild in North America.

But the biggest influence of the Screenwriters Association is that once it is publicly removed from the Screenwriters Association, although it will not have any legal effect, at the moral level, it is a very severe punishment in the screenwriters' circle, and even in the film and television industry, which is equivalent to confirming that the screenwriter is plagiarizing.

However, Tang Qi's proposal is obviously difficult to be truly implemented, because of all the interests involved.

It's just that the screenwriters present today are all popular screenwriters, and generally speaking, they are still quite disgusted with this kind of thing, so they echoed Tang Qi one after another.

Yuan Zhi couldn't sit still, and he spoke: "I think that following the trend and imitating can't be beaten to death with a stick." ”

His words immediately attracted the attention of many people.

First of all, we have to look at what kind of form of following the trend, for example, if a work is popular, and the theme of this type has been confirmed to have a market, then following the trend is inevitable in the market, because this category can be popular, and this kind of work has a market, you can't write a work, and if it's popular, you won't allow others to intervene, right?"

"Of course, blindly following the trend and imitating it is definitely not right, but it depends on how this follow-the-trend, this imitation, is done, if at the same time as following the trend, this follow-up work has some innovative elements of its own, and some new things are in it, then I think it can't be regarded as following the trend, right?"

"After all, the market is very large, and more works are needed to fill it, and only when there are more similar works can we make this cake bigger and bigger. ”

"So I think it's not right to follow the trend, but if it's just a reference, it's still good for the development of the industry. Yuan Zhi said eloquently.

It's just that Yuan Zhi's words annoyed Tang Qi.

Tang Qi snorted coldly and said: "Yuan Zhi, do you dare to say that your company's "Beauty Like a Song" did not imitate "Han Palace Moon"? Change the background, change the name of the character, even the opening ending, the fate of the protagonist is the same, and even many of the bridges are used directly, this is what you said?

"You can't say that, right? "Beauty Like a Song" focuses on small fresh meat, handsome men and beautiful women, and both in terms of clothing and historical background are completely different from "Han Palace Moon", I think everyone who has seen it knows that these two works are completely two different styles of works. ”

"The results of "Beauty Like a Song" are much better than "Han Palace Moon", I want to follow the trend and imitate a very popular work, but "Beauty Like a Song" was released earlier than "Han Palace Moon", how can it be regarded as following the trend?"

"And "Beauty Like a Song" is also adapted from the Internet, and that one appeared earlier than "Han Palace Moon", so let's talk about following the trend, we didn't say that "Han Palace Moon" imitates our "Beauty Like a Song" is good. Yuan Zhi said indifferently.

If Tang Qi was talking about other works, maybe Yuan Zhi would not be so arrogant, but in the work "Beauty Like a Song", Yuan Zhi played a trick.

In fact, it was really Yuan Zhi's company who first fell in love with "Han Palace Moon", but unfortunately the other party's asking price was too high, so he didn't negotiate it, and was cut off halfway.

So Yuan Zhi played a trick, first asked the screenwriting team to imitate and modify it according to the plot and character settings of "Han Palace Moon", etc., but on the other hand, he found a film that appeared earlier than "Han Palace Moon", and then won the adaptation right at a very low price.

And that work, in fact, except for some character names that are the same as "Beauty Like a Song", the plot is fundamentally different.

Of course, Yuan Zhi's cunning lies in the fact that the work they are looking for has some bridges that are somewhat similar to "Han Palace Moon", so he is not worried at all.

Tang Qi was speechless by Yuan Zhi, although he was very angry in his heart, but it was difficult to refute.

In the current environment, it is really difficult for Yuan Zhi to discern the operation of "Beauty Like a Song".

Even Ye Qiu could only shake his head, he could only say that Yuan Zhi was too shameless, but he was shameless and had no choice.

This is probably the cheapest and most invincible.

However, Yuan Zhi also knew that although the other party could not refute himself on this topic, if he continued, he would easily become the target of public criticism.

Therefore, Yuan Zhi quickly changed the topic.

"Mr. Ye, the previous speech was really wonderful, but there are a few points that I have some doubts and puzzles. ”

Mr. Ye said that several TV series about vampires in North America are actually idol dramas at the core, but they are just set on elements such as vampires and werewolves, but we all know that our Chinese environment does not allow such adaptations. ”

"And vampires and werewolves are unique cultural characteristics in the West, so I would like to ask Mr. Ye, if it is in our country, how can idol dramas be like North American TV dramas to carry out new bottles of old wine?"

Yuan Zhi's words can be said to be to the point, and many screenwriters looked at Ye Qiu expectantly.

It downplays the previous topic.

Ye Qiu glanced at Yuan Zhi deeply, and said lightly: "It seems that Mr. Yuan's level of imitation needs to be improved, such a simple question, Mr. Yuan can't even figure it out?"

Yuan Zhi's face suddenly became ugly.

Ye Qiu was completely forcibly slapped in the face, and Yuan Zhi believed that other people had some doubts about this issue like himself, but Ye Qiu was just targeting himself.

"For reference, I have always believed in a saying, learn from me and live, and those who resemble me die. Mr. Yuan, are you going to learn? or are you going to do it?"