EA Headquarters, Cupertino, Silicon Valley, USA.

As the CEO of the world's largest video game entertainment company, Hawkins has to take on the heavy lifting of his duties in addition to the superficial scenery.

Although the overall economic situation in the United States is not good, this Christmas is still EA's harvest season.

So, Hawkins is even busier.

The information about the Xiaobawang N-in-1 game in Tang Huan's memory has long been classified and sorted out to form an EA company's development roadmap, which was developed by the project teams in the United States and Japan, and various whimsical ideas generated under the incentive mechanism have also been incorporated into the company's creative think tank.

Now, almost every month, EA has a video game for a different type of video game being developed and packaged for the market.

Of course, the industry as a whole is crazy, and everyone involved is trying to launch their own hardware and software products for fear of losing a piece of the pie.

Under the chaos, various copyright collisions and conflicts are inevitable.

The role of EA and Zheru's legal department is to make sure that no one can steal the jewel in their crown.

Hawkins took advantage of the gap between dealing with various Christmas marketing plans, and lawyer Owen? Rabaport sat down together to discuss the legal aspects of the video game adaptation from the movie "007", the other party has extensive experience in the microcomputer and video game industries, and EA and Luen Mei have their own hills, but they both belong to the same entertainment group, so it is relatively easy to coordinate.

In the original text space-time, Owen? Rabaport was loyal to Apple, but after Steve Jobs was ousted. SINCE SKLEY DIDN'T REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THE MAC GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE. Completely ignored Owen? Rababot's suggestion. It was easily licensed to Microsoft, and it turned out to be a problem with Windows.

But now, Owen? Rabaport's allegiance has been changed, and it has been reused.

At this time, a subordinate reported that a lawyer claiming to represent Universal Pictures came to visit.

"Bring him here." Hawkins put down the phone and muttered in surprise, "Inexplicable." The interaction mechanism between us and Luen Mei has not yet been fully established, and the lawyers of Universal Pictures came to join in the fun. ”

"Universal's lawyer?" With professional sensitivity, Owen? Rababot sat up straight, "I'm afraid it's not good." ”

Hawkins smiled faintly, although he is cautious by nature, the CEO of a company with annual sales of more than a billion dollars brings about an inflated self-confidence, and he has capital to lift his weight.

Luen Mei has been bought by EA leverage, Hollywood is just like this, how much stronger can Universal be?

"Or be wary of some as well, "Owen? Rababot began to gather the materials on the table. Avoid divulging trade secrets.

Soon, that Universal Pictures lawyer. and his assistant, came to the office, faced the burning Hawkins, calmly handed over the document, and said word by word: "On behalf of Universal Pictures, I came to negotiate with EA, the video game "Donkey Kong" that you are selling on the market infringes the copyright of our movie, please stop the infringement immediately, and make sincere compensation." ”

"It's really not a good person." Hawkins snorted coldly, picked up the file and looked at it twice, then burst into a foul mouth with unbearable anger, "Shit!"

"Let me see." Seeing Hawkins' face so dark, Owen? Rababot calmly took the papers.

……

Compared with Hawkins's young and proud, the old and serious Chambers is more powerful, and when Tang Huan is not in Silicon Valley, he has to take charge of the important affairs of Zheru America and EA, and he is naturally more and more busy.

With the more powerful second-generation Fangyuan computer as the platform, the database EBase and its related database management system can be said to be like a fish in water.

With the full cooperation of Zheru, Seagate, which has worked overtime to develop the company, has come up with the hard disk expansion card on the second-generation Fangyuan computer platform.

Compared to a floppy disk in kilobytes, the extra 5MB of external storage capacity is self-evident for database applications.

Alain watching the demo with Chambers? Shugart, seeing that the second round of the test passed, couldn't help but smile lightly.

"The first batch of second-generation Fangyuan computers with hard disks will be sent to Pan America, financial institutions have very strict requirements for data security, and our products must be of good quality." Chambers and Alain? When Shugart shook hands and congratulated each other, he did not forget to tell each other.

"That's nature, and we all need a good start." Alan? Shugart smiled and nodded.

Compared with Seagate's smoothness, Chambers couldn't help but secretly curse a sentence of 3COM's grinding.

He's about to put Alain? Shugat settles in, and then goes to contact Robert? Metcalfe's subordinates brought in a lawyer in a suit and leather shoes, who claimed to be representing IBM to discuss patent matters.

Although it was not explicitly discussed, the two sides were actually future PC competitors, and the emergence of a lawyer suddenly gave Chambers a premonition that the old club he used to work for might be playing the trick of bullying the small again.

Sure enough, when he returned to his office and read the documents handed over by his lawyer, Chamberston understood that IBM had set its sights on the ISA bus and some patents for important chips.

Chambers was not angry, and calmly said, "We need to look into this matter," and then politely sent the lawyer away, who had a depressed look on his face.

"Jean Owen? Rababot came to my office. Chambers picked up the phone and instructed as he flipped through the papers again.

"Irving talks to Hawkins at EA." The other party replied respectfully.

As a result, when Chambers turned to Hawkins, he was surprised to find that the other party had just received a lawyer, who also had a good background, representing Universal Studios in Hollywood.

"Come here right away and discuss it together." Chambers put down the phone and frowned. Muttered to himself, "Could it be that the battle of the personal computer standards predicted by the boss is about to begin." But Universal Pictures made such a drama. What's going on? ”

……

Don't look at Guan Zhilin yesterday when she was serving Tang Huan to enjoy dinner and bathing, she was very attentive, and when she waited for the next morning, she became a real little lazy cat.

Tang Huan prepared breakfast, ate it himself, and even got into Lu Xiaohu's car to pick him up, but this girl still refused to get up.

Picking up a copy of a new newspaper at random, Tang Huan found that it was still reporting on the sudden change of owner of Li's TV and the change of name to Media Asia TV.

Among them, many of them said with emotion, one day of this month. Li's TV celebrated its 7th anniversary, when all employees attended the Taiwan Anniversary Commemorative Reception, and Managing Director and General Manager Huang Xizhao presided over the champagne cake cutting ceremony.

It was a ninety-pound cake, which meant longevity.

I didn't expect that it had only been a long time, and the situation had changed abruptly.

Compared with these sour words, "Sing Tao Daily" reported that they were all dry goods, and first of all, they started with the topic, their boss Hu Xian and Hu Yinmeng, vice president of DreamWorks, are old friends, so what they got was absolutely true inside information.

It is reported that the acquisition. It was a very thorough capital exchange, and Tang Huan alone controlled eighty percent of the shares. The remaining two percent were respectively controlled by the Bao family and the Zheng family in Xiangjiang, and the Wang family in Baodao, and the corresponding directorships were assigned.

The specific financial resources of the owners of Media Asia TV cannot be assessed, but it is true that they are not small, and the Formosa Plastics Group of the Wang family may even exceed the two minority shareholders of Xiangjiang in terms of financial resources.

All in all, Tang Huan, the new boss of Media Asia TV, has his hands and eyes all over the sky, and he doesn't know what big moves will happen next, and how TVB, another TV station in Xiangjiang, will react.

In order to win sales, it can really be grandstanding, and there is also internal information, and the relevant information has already been reported to the Xiangjiang official, right?

Tang Huan opened this page speechlessly, intending to look at the financial news, and found that Jianing Group is still the darling of the media, and how much profit it has made from the Golden Gate Building to the launch of the new real estate project in San Jose, California, is not easy to praise.

Liar, Du Nima is a liar, this is boring, Tang Huan does not believe that HSBC's Windoli company, which is responsible for providing transaction review, does not find the slightest abnormality.

Soon, the car arrived at the office building of Zheru Xiangjiang Company, and Tang Huan saw Huang Zhan with a smile on his face.

"I'm in a good mood." Tang Huan joked, he was amused, the other party was accompanied by a talented woman, and he was really enthusiastic about his work.

"Thank you Mr. Tang for taking care of the business, I'm here to deliver the latest advertising plan of Media Asia TV." Huang Zhan made an old-fashioned gesture.

At present, the focus of Tang Huan's work in Xiangjiang is to bring Media Asia TV into the expected operating track as soon as possible.

Therefore, important matters related to Media Asia TV were sent to his office for inspection, and Zhou Mi and Hu Yinmeng were also waiting there.

Zheru's company logo is an abstract bird pattern composed of Arabic numerals 0 and 1, and I don't know whose idea it was, Media Asia TV inherited it, and carried forward the evolution into a phoenix, and even the animation became a phoenix.

Tang Huan rubbed his eyebrows and muttered to himself, the inertia of historical development is really great, and it can always connect certain things inadvertently.

However, these things are trivial things for him, the boss, and after reading them casually, as long as they are not eyesore, he doesn't bother to open his mouth to comment, and the wisdom of his subordinates still needs to be respected.

"Let's go to the TV headquarters and have a look." Seeing that the time was almost up, Tang Huan got up and said.

……

At 81 Broadcasting Road, Kowloon, Media Asia Television Building, employees were busy checking which places had not been replaced, while quietly discussing the future of the TV station.

……

"I haven't read the recent newspapers, our new boss is not an ordinary rich man, he is well-connected, and his life will be better now."

"I heard that he was originally from the mainland, so I'm afraid he will mess around."

"You really can't imagine how many celebrities in Xiangjiang are not from the mainland? Moreover, people made a fortune in the United States, and then invested in Xiangjiang. ”

"Who said the above things well."

"Don't worry about it there, care about the practical. According to the grapevine, the time for the Chinese New Year is not far away. The new boss intends to increase our red envelopes. ”

"Really? That's great. Recently, the elderly in the family have been sick. I'm a little tight on my hand. ”

"Don't say it, General Manager Huang is here."

……

Huang Xizhao inspected the preparations, nodded with satisfaction, and returned to his office.

Not long ago, the parent company Li's Yingsheng suddenly received a notice that Li's TV had been sold, which really scared Huang Xizhao.

Earlier there had been rumors of this, but the official British in Hong Kong seemed reluctant to see the reality that all television stations were controlled by the Chinese. Coupled with the vague words that the parent company also replied, he didn't take it too seriously.

You must know that when the Chinese-funded group that was inclined to the treasure island set up Jiayi TV, it was limited in its business scope, and at the same time spent money lavishly, and the glory was just a flash in the pan, and the collapse also happened overnight.

The overwhelmed employees went to petition to no avail, and in the end, He Zuozhi, the chairman of the commercial radio station who had withdrawn his shares, stood up and generously paid the severance pay of these people with his own money.

That's where the British are great, killing people invisibly.

In a short period of time. spread Tang Huan's mainland background to the gods, obviously to kick him out.

This happened. The parent company Li's Yingsheng is naturally more cautious,It will definitely not consider selling Li's TV in the near future。

Unexpectedly, Tang Huan still withstood the pressure and quickly put Li's TV into his bag.

It seems that in the special colony of Xiangjiang, the influence of the British is indeed much less than before.

And Tang Huan, the new boss, also moved very quickly, and the agent came directly to the door, talked heartily for a while, and promised that the treatment would not change, which made him feel a lot more at ease.

However, the ensuing measures such as taking over finances and separating the artist management department inevitably caused panic.

It is very miraculous that the old rival TVB did not take advantage of the fire to rob at this time and come to poach the corner, but some ambitious people within the TV station decided to jump out of this circle and make movies that are becoming more and more profitable.

It's better to be young, I'm fifty-four years old, I don't want to go to a new field anymore, and I'm content to retire smoothly in this position.

As for the newly appointed executive deputy general manager Zhou Liang Shuyi, whether she will compete for power and profit, it is not so important, the TV station has no artists directly under it, what else can you grab?

Maybe Zhou Liang Shuyi has other instructions from the new boss, then it will be up to her to perform.

Huang Xizhao was calculating the gains and losses of the current TV station situation, and Mai Dangxiong, Xiao Ruoyuan and others, who had resigned, walked in.

"Huang Sheng, we are no longer from the TV station, why are we coming back?" Mai Dangxiong asked a little puzzled.

"Although I haven't met that Boss Tang yet, but looking at what he has done, it is very atmospheric, and people insist on letting you be there, also to affirm your contribution to the TV station, and there is also a bonus, if you don't take it for nothing, why not do it." Huang Xizhao explained with a smile.

"There can be such a generous person, I have already resigned early." McDonald's muttered to himself.

"Perhaps, people buy horse bones for their daughter." Xiao Ruoyuan groaned and said: "It's not boasting, we have indeed contributed a lot to the TV station, especially last year and this year, TVB has suffered from us." If we, who are no longer in the TV station, can also be rewarded by the boss for their merits, and we still part ways amicably, how much incentive will it have on the incumbents? ”

"Rich people have the capital to use all kinds of schemes." McDonald shook his head with emotion.

At this time, the secretary came to report, "The boss and the other directors are coming soon." ”

……

At this time and space, Tang Huan walked into the headquarters of Li's TV for the first time, and looked at the surrounding environment, which could be clearly seen that it had been carefully arranged.

He was accompanied by Wu Guangzheng, Cheng Kar-chun, Wang Xueling, Zhou Mi, and Hu Yinmeng, all of whom were naturally directors, and an important person-Zhong Jinghui, who served as the deputy general manager of Li's TV in the 1970s.

Huang Xizhao greeted him early. Zhou Mi made an introduction in the center.

Looking at Wu Guangzheng, Zheng Jiachun, and Wang Xueling in front of him, Huang Xizhao secretly exclaimed, "The new boss's connections are really wide enough." ”

After a brief greeting, the staff meeting began, and some of the latest changes in Media Asia TV were announced, and most of the news had already circulated through the grapevine, and everyone was not too surprised.

Tang Huan's conversation, the theme is praise, such as this year's various targeted program broadcast offensives, the effect is remarkable, in September, TVB's "Rotation" was forced to be cut in half, and this month has just started shortly after the three-line close-up broadcast, that is, from 7 pm to 9:30 pm, three sets of different types of new dramas were launched - "Tai Chi Zhang Sanfeng", "Family of Four", "Little Heart Wish", which are also fruitful.

Listening to the overall affirmation of the boss on stage, everyone in the audience couldn't help but show strange expressions, and muttered to themselves in their hearts, at that time, "The Kindness of the Earth" did force "Rotation" in half, but TVB quickly took "The King of a Thousand Kings" from DreamWorks and made a big reversal counterattack.

How should this account be calculated?

However, DreamWorks' TV series is really good-looking, and the level of everyone's production is obviously not on the same level, and even "Shang_ Beach" was bought for rebroadcast, and it still has high ratings.

Those colleagues who have been transferred to DreamWorks should have a better life in the future.

Unconsciously, these employees left over from Li's TV have been impressed by the strength of DreamWorks, and they don't have much worry about this acquisition, "laymen may command indiscriminately". (To be continued......)