What will be the most valuable commodity in the future?

In Lin Shu's view, it is natural to be copyright and patent.

The more advanced science and technology and the richer life is, the more valuable the products of wisdom are, which is a truth that has been unbreakable since ancient times. It's just that since the Industrial Revolution, the definition of wisdom has been expanded again, so literature, art, and science and technology have all been included, and people's spiritual life has become richer and their spiritual needs have become stronger.

Whoever controls the right to smart trading can control the direction of the whole world.

The virtual trading platform in Lin Shu's goal is not to trade self-made software, models or others, but all kinds of intellectual products such as copyright patents, such as various design drawings, such as novels or painting copyrights, or although it is not yet possible to design...... But in fact, it has long been a scientific and technological patent targeted by Lin Shu.

The last item is the most difficult to collect, Lin Shu is not in a hurry at the moment, he just hopes to do a good job of the previous ones first.

Because there are more and more patented works on the shelves, Lin Shu hopes that the basic rules and benefits of the platform will be done first. In the period after that, he asked Zheng Fangcheng to spend time poaching and signing a group of patent and copyright lawyers, including Li Zewei, who had a happy cooperation with Xingze at that time and has become more and more famous recently.

Li Zewei is quite positive about this contract, although he only consulted a lawyer, but after the specific prototype of the future platform, he knew that he actually had a lot to do in Xingze, so he agreed.

In addition to him, Xingze also signed several other lawyers who have some fame in related fields, as well as paralegals and a group of subordinate staff. Xingze originally had plagiarism judgment software specifically used to check the similarity of the plot and code of the copy, and after an update, the software was upgraded again, adding the drawing comparison function and clothing comparison function.

But that's not enough.

Soon after the establishment of the patent team, Xingze issued a notice to hire a number of previously active website users - mainly hobbyists or professionals with in-depth and extensive knowledge of the relevant industry - to become full-time examiners, specializing in manual review, evaluation and recommendation after a machine review.

After recruiting a lot of people, Zheng Fangcheng carefully selected several candidates with high basic professional ethics and acceptable professional standards.

This situation inevitably made Lin Shu sigh a little.

Thinking that when the company was just founded, he basically had to pull the technician and copywriter to double as an auditor, one person and two uses. Over the years, Xingze has been able to directly hire professionals to perform review and recommendation work.

It has to be said that it is a leap forward.

Considering that Xingze is not able to completely virtualize all kinds of commodities at present, reasonable classification is very important for the website. The more precise and clear the product category, the more customers can find what they are looking for and the more effective it will be to drive a successful transaction.

Because of this consideration, Lin Shu has been pushing the future platform to improve and refine the index to achieve better query and browsing results.

Of course, at the same time, the registration and protection of patents are also a piece that must be paid attention to. Lin Shu's group of assistants and clerks specially equipped for the lawyer team is dedicated to such a purpose. Xingze has internally reviewed a large number of products uploaded every day, and after confirming their originality, they regularly file patents or copyrights with the Copyright Office. There is no user fee for this, and the final fee is included in the 10% commission when the transaction is successful.

Of course, in order to avoid some short-sighted people falsifying transaction prices in order to reduce the commission, Xingze still has a backhand. In each author's column, they will display some value information, such as the number of successful transactions for a particular type of copyright, the highest transaction price, the lowest transaction price, the average transaction price, etc...... Not only that, Xingze also deliberately added a series of trading lists to the new section, and arranged the relevant numbers jù.

This is equivalent to disclosing all the transaction information, which is something that has never been done before. Of course, this is not to say that no one has actually published the price of patents or copyrights, but generally only a small part of the people who do this, and often the main purpose is speculation, and it is not even possible to tell whether the published figures are the real price or not.

However, because the future platform is still just starting out in this regard, it has no influence yet, and what it tried to announce was the price of its own website, which did not cause any repercussions for a while.

In fact, price disclosure is a good thing for most practitioners, but generally large companies and businesses will be very disgusted by this kind of thing, so they will add a confidentiality clause to the contract, requiring the copyright transferor to keep the relevant price confidential.

Because it is only in the case of asymmetry in the message that the party with the right to more information can get more benefits. The Confidentiality Ordinance itself is a clause that favours large organisations and is detrimental to parties of individual size.

However, many people are not aware of the impact of this approach on the platform in the future. Because no matter from which angle you look at, Xingze does this as a matter of course and in line with his own interests.

Only people who know Lin Shu's style and ability will realize how influential and threatening such a platform is for the traditional copyright and patent trading market.

It's a pity that there aren't many such people, and not all of them have the will or ability to interfere with and oppose Xingze's way of operating.

In the future, the platform will adopt a two-way bidding model, which means that the copyright owner will mark a bidding price and a fixed price for himself under the product, but it will not be made public. Buyers who have taken a fancy to the corresponding copyright can make an offer for the product. Because of the standard contract, the copyright of the transaction has a variety of different forms, including the number of years, the scope of rights, and additional obligations...... are all different. Even the parties can customize the terms and conditions in terms of details.

However, in this process, the platform will only allow different price settings for the basic terms in the future. After the contract is confirmed, the website will automatically reject other offers, but both parties have three days to withdraw, beyond this time, the transaction is considered successful, and the platform will automatically transfer the guarantee money in the future, and enter the relevant transaction information at the same time.

After the appearance of this rule, it may not be felt from the outside, but many users inside the website can already feel Xingze's seriousness and intentions in this regard.

Subsequently, Bai Miao contacted Jinjiang Original Literature City again, and this time it was the copyright of the novel that was discussed. Bai Miao wants the copyright trading rights of all novels in Jinjiang that have not been traded for copyright since the end of the past. Not only recent, but also all the works that are still copyrighted and can be contacted by the author in the past 20 years since the establishment of the site.

Mr. Liu actually attaches great importance to the copyright of his works, but Bai Miao himself has been in Jinjiang for a long time, so he naturally knows what the operation style of this website is.

For Jinjiang, copyright income is indeed a very important income item, but if you really want to say how much copyright promotion has been actively carried out in this area -- that is not the case.

Jinjiang is like a shy little girl, all the means of buying and selling is to carry a basket of roses, standing quietly on the side of the road with a small face, waiting for passers-by to take the initiative to inquire.

This approach is certainly a bit problematic, and the management itself knows it. But Mr. Liu obviously has a misunderstanding, thinking that the roses rotten in the basket are still his own roses, and the fruits rotten in the basket are still his own fruits.

Bai Miao has a very different idea about this.

She said: "According to Jinjiang's current and manpower and operational capabilities, you don't have the manpower and financial resources to organize enough manpower to review and select the entire novel library, and it is completely up to the buyers to spend their own efforts to dig out good works. However, Jinjiang's library of works is very large, and there will hardly be any exposure after the end, and it can only be driven by the author's new book. ”

"Whether it's a rose or a fruit, it's really rotting in the basket, that is, it's turned into mud and fungus propagation, and the value is greatly reduced. This is similar to stock speculation, when someone's company goes out of business, all you have in your hands is a pile of waste paper, in this case, Mr. Liu, why don't you try to use them before they rot? You don't have to do anything to get half of the intermediary fees. As for the contract authors who no longer take the intermediary fee, we can talk to the authors ourselves and ask for their wishes, and the commission will also be directly drawn from them...... It's actually a win-win strategy. ”

Bai Miao finally persuaded Mr. Liu and got the number of Jinjiang's completed works library and the contact information of some authors. In the following time, Xingze spent a lot of manpower and material resources to classify and review these works.

The first step is naturally the software comparison. Such a comparison quickly eliminated a large number of works suspected of borrowing and plagiarism.

This is still the work of Jinjiang, who has always been ruthless to plagiarism. Online novels are simply a hard-hit area for plagiarism, and it is difficult for Bai Miao to imagine what it would be like for some other websites that turn a blind eye to related behavior.

But the software comparison is still not enough. Bai Miao led a group of employees to group and grade the themes, among which the well-structured, creative, and excellent writing ...... After each group is grouped, it is subdivided and entered again according to the type of subject.

In the end, we can distinguish which works are suitable for adaptation into certain genres, and which ones are suitable for which reading group. Not all of the subdivided works may be able to reach the publishing level, but at least after excluding more than 90% of the works, the rest of the works can be regarded as masterpieces.

is like Bai Miao said to Mr. Liu: "I believe that there are far more than one or two works in Jinjiang like "Growing Up", which are not popular but suitable for film and television adaptation. ”

She was clearly right.