Chapter 134: Changing Awareness of Copyright
"The 18th?" Hong Ning looked at the text message, he asked the company to arrange the release of the new album as soon as possible, because half of the month has passed, and the later the release, the lower the likelihood that he will complete the task. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Anyway...... I'm really looking forward to it!" Hong Ning muttered as he walked forward with brisk steps.
He definitely has 200 percent confidence in this album! Although there are naturally many excellent musicians and good music in the world now, no matter what, he thinks that these divine comedies of Dong Chou will definitely sweep away thousands of troops!
And with his current popularity, there should be no problem with this album at least being popular in China, and what Hong Ning is not sure about is mainly the foreign market.
This time in the foreign release, the company will also arrange foreign platforms to promote his album, although due to financial reasons, the publicity can not be too good, as I said before, all the costs of this foreign distribution are counted on Hong Ning's head, and when the album is sold, it will be directly deducted from his share.
There are too few people abroad who know his Hongning name now, almost none, and this time in the foreign market, in order to attract people's attention, he was given a gimmick like "China's rare musical genius in a century".
However, there are indeed many media in China who have said this kind of thing these days, so it will not cause a lot of dissatisfaction.
But just such a gimmick is estimated to not attract many foreigners to buy his albums.
Hong Ning himself is not sure that this album will be loved by many foreigners.
Because he didn't have a reference, after the system modified the background, the original world was actually very different from the present.
Although there were already digital records in the original world, there were not many digital albums released in China at that time, and there should be very few Chinese singers who would release them globally.
At least as far as Hong Ning knows, in the original world, even Jay Chou, as a leader in the Chinese music scene for more than ten years, and an Asian king-level singer, his albums are basically limited to China, at most they are also very popular in Japan, South Korea and some countries in Southeast Asia, but not so good in Europe and the United States.
At that time, when it came to record sales, Japan was the best in Asia, followed by South Korea, and there was a gap between China and South Korea, and it was even worse than Japan.
However, even in Japan, the top in Asia, it is completely incomparable with the European and American music scenes, and it is no exaggeration to say that the sales of a best-selling album of Taylor Sweet, a little diva in the United States at that time, can be compared to the total sales of albums in the years or even more than ten years after the singers in Asia!
As a fan of Jay Chou, Hong Ning has always firmly believed that Jay Chou's musical talent is incomparable, in terms of music quality, he has never felt that Jay's music is really not comparable to those abroad, but there is no way, even if it is a character like Jay Chou, it still can't cross the huge gap between the entertainment industry in China and Western countries.
Although Dong Chou is also very popular abroad, in terms of worldwide influence, he is still not as good as those popular singers in Europe and the United States, not only him, but no one in Asia can compare.
After the background of the system has been modified, this pattern has not changed, and the strength of the Chinese music scene is still not comparable to Japan and South Korea, and Japan and South Korea are still not comparable to Europe and the United States.
However, the system has made some changes that are beneficial to him.
For example, the issue of copyright......
It turns out that the world, especially China, in the era of physical records, is really full of piracy, and many classmates in Hongning Primary School bought Jay Chou's pirated albums, and those vendors directly and blatantly set up stalls at the school gate to sell them for five yuan a piece......
It must be admitted that piracy is too rampant and is also the main reason why the sales data of Chinese singers is suppressed by foreign singers.
This was not only the problem of those profiteers who sold pirated copies, but the general awareness of copyright among the Chinese people at that time was not strong, and many people even felt that watching, listening, and playing pirated copies was the correct way of life!
The so-called close to Zhu is red and close to ink is black, there are too many such people around, and their thoughts are likely to be corrupted by them, and eventually become the same as them, so Hong Ning used to be like this, reading novels and watching pirated versions, listening to songs and listening to pirated versions, and playing games is also piracy, and he has no sense of guilt about this, and he feels that he should take it for granted.
It wasn't until he started writing novels in college that he knew the difficulty of creation, how important it was for creators to support genuine versions, and how many creators had been hurt by his previous behaviors.
Then he was very decisive to subscribe to all the genuine novels he had read before, and all the games he had played and the music he had listened to in the past had also been bought genuine.
He began to try to stay away from any piracy, and at the same time, his thoughts and cognition began to change, and he realized that piracy really can't help you save too much money, and buying genuine copies is not only to support creators, so that they have the passion and motivation to create better works, but also for a peace of mind.
And it is more important for a person to work hard to make more money, not to save money through piracy, no one can become a billionaire by saving money.
But...... Since then, he's often heard the following:
"Yo,His digital album is out.,What genuine is it to buy!It's everywhere in the post bar forum!Wouldn't it be nice to download it directly!"
"What? You even spend money to read the original version of the novel?! Stupid you! Can't you read it all when you search on the Internet!"
"That anime is very good.,Go watch it!What?No members?Cut!I have it in the cloud disk!It's still super clear!I'll pass it to you!"
"What? You bought this game for more than 200 yuan? Hehe, I placed it on the homeless, I don't need money, it looks exactly the same as your genuine game!"
Come to think of it, it's really ironic, many people just have a soft spot for piracy, they just think that these things should all be free, they just think: it costs money to listen to songs, it costs money to read novels, it costs money to watch movies and anime, it costs money to play stand-alone games, it's crazy, I'm crazy! Piracy is up! It's so cool that it's flying! Those who spend money to buy genuine copies are all a bunch of fools who waste money!
However, these people never thought that these works were condensed by the countless efforts and sweat of those creators, they never thought that they only knew that they had saved money by piracy.
In China, from the literature industry to the music industry, the film and television industry, the game industry and various creative industries, there are countless creators whose creative passion has been stifled by piracy!
But fortunately, now after systematic modification, today's world attaches great importance to copyright, whether it is music, film and television, games and novels, any form of piracy...... Once found and reported, a sentence will be imposed!
And the implementation of this by the state is quite large!
Therefore, in today's world, the existence of such a thing as piracy has almost been eliminated.
And people's awareness of copyright is indeed much stronger, and for people in the world now, as long as it is a work they like, they are usually willing to pay for it.
That is to say, as long as people listen to his songs now, the vast majority of them have bought his genuine albums.
In fact, if this is not the case, if it is still a situation of piracy, it is absolutely impossible for him as a newcomer to create three million single sales.
The world is indeed much friendlier to singers now.
So does Hong Ning's new version of "Fantesi", composed of Dong Chou's songs, hope to bring a ray of light to the current Chinese music scene?
Hong Ning hopes that there is, this time, he really hopes that not only so that he can complete the task without reducing his appearance.
As a Chinese who loves music, he has always hoped to see the Chinese music scene one day really stand up and no longer be trampled under the feet of others!
In the past, he could only be a bystander, but now, he has the opportunity to change the situation with his own hands!
"What the!"
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