In the last two weeks of the third month of Ye Luo's arrival in the United States, the beauty company was still full of good news.

Song Yan and Xiao Qiong's new album has sold more than 30 million copies in California.

These two female singers who are destined to become rivals in their singing careers, and in this confrontation, Song Yan has the upper hand for the first time. Her album sales came first, four hours ahead of Xiao Qiong, and the first to break the 15 million mark.

With these more than 30 million records sold, the beauty company is naturally wealthy, although there is still a distance from the huge liquidated damages of the last 100 million US dollars for Merina, but at least Ye Luo sees the hope of introducing this international superstar.

And Merina has not been idle recently, her team of lawyers, with a complaint, sued Liyin Records in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Because many cases involving federal law in New York City are heard here, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York is also one of the most influential and case-handling courts in the United States.

This incident caused an uproar in the American media.

Marina is one of the most influential artists in the United States, and Liyin is one of the largest record labels in the country, and these two topics are at odds with each other, and it is impossible not to attract attention.

However, because the case itself is still in the stage of filing and investigation for the time being, and there is no formal trial, there are different opinions and speculations about the inside story, and there is no unified statement.

In fact, after Ye Luo followed the newspaper for a week, he found that not only was there no unified statement, but there was not even a reliable statement.

Because of the beauty company, in the public's speculation, it has not been mentioned at all.

It's not surprising that Beauty is just a mid-label record company, as long as it's an American who knows a little bit about the music industry. will not associate the object of Mai Ruina's job change with the beauty company, and the two are not at the same level at all.

In the past two weeks, Song Yan's new album MV has finally been filmed, and Ye Luo couldn't be happier after watching it. It's really out of place, dressed like a crazy woman.

However, the overall effect of the MV is very good, this MV team was lent to Ye Luo by Marina, and it was really extraordinary.

Then, under Ye Luo's instructions, and at the same time in Song Yan's resentful eyes, Tang Jinxiu sent all the MVs to Leshi.

Video format on the website. Generally speaking, it's FLV, and the format that Tang Jinxiu sent to people is MP4, and Leshi has to be transcoded, so it can't be sent right away.

As a result, Tang Jinxiu just sent the video to Leshi, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Song Yan's album was posted on the Internet by Leshi, and it is estimated that Yang Yuanshan has already prepared a high-performance server, just waiting for transcoding. It can be seen that his urgency is dù.

It has been a full five days since the video was posted on LeTV to today.

In these five days. Once Song Yan is idle in the office, she will refresh her record page on Leshi.com, and as a result, her face has been getting worse and worse day by day in the past five days.

On this day, Ye Luo finished the work in his hand, poked his head to look at Song Yan's screen, and said with a smile: "Oops." Not bad. There are 8,000 hits, more than 3,000 downloads, and hundreds of comments. Mr. Song, you want to be on fire. ”

Song Yan glanced at Ye Luo angrily: "If you don't say anything back, will you die?" ”

"I estimate that of these 8,000 hits, you yourself contributed hundreds, right?" Ye Luo said with a smile. "I see you've been refreshing the page for the past two days when you have nothing to do."

Song Yan was so angry that she simply closed her special area page, and snorted there with her hands on her chest.

Ye Luo saw that Song Yan was unhappy, and comforted him with a smile: "Oh, this number is already very good." If you think about it, California has more than 15 million sales, the market is basically saturated, everyone has a record in hand, and there is no need to download your MV. And Leshi hasn't done a single advertisement in California, who knows about this site.

As for music fans in other states, they haven't heard of your name, because your album doesn't operate in the national record market.

Domestic music fans don't know that you release a new album, and even if they do, they can't download it.

So, with the poor user base in the United States, you can have 8,000 hits, and you can have more than 3,000 downloads, which is a huge ratio.

I don't lie to you, you really want to be hot. ”

"But what's the use of that?" Song Yan said depressedly, "It's been five days, and there are only more than 3,000 downloads in total, which is equivalent to selling more than 3,000 copies, how much money do we make, it can't be compared with the California market at all, it's meaningless!" ”

"Of course it makes sense." Ye Luo smiled, "Your MV in Leshi is actually a bait. I'm waiting for someone to bite the hook. ”

"Who's going to bite the hook?" Song Yan asked puzzled.

"The Buddha said that he could not say." Ye Luo said, "By the way, the sales money collected by the beauty company in the past two weeks, don't move it first, I'll be useful." ”

"Oh." Song Yan nodded.

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Another day passed, and at noon that day, Song Yan's female assistant Xiao Liu received a phone call, and then ran into the office in a panic: "Mr. Song, someone has taken our beauty company to court!" ”

Song Yan had just finished lunch and was touching up her makeup in the office, drawing lipstick on the mirror of the makeup box.

This Nizi hurriedly covered her mouth with a tissue, first glanced at Ye Luo, and found that Ye Luo was not looking at her, so she breathed a sigh of relief, and asked angrily: "Who sued us, in what name?" ”

"Raymond, they sued us for plagiarism." Xiao Liu said.

Song Yan panicked at first, and then she seemed to remember something, and looked at Ye Luo beside her again.

She found that Ye Luo had a treacherous smile on his face, and she faintly knew it in her heart, and waved her hand at Xiao Liu: "I know, you go out first." ”

When the female assistant came out of the office, Song Yan asked Ye Luo, "Is this what you did?" ”

"That's right." Ye Luo smiled and nodded, "I'm just messing with ghosts, sampling ghosts." ”

"What the hell is a sampler?" Song Yan asked, "You didn't say it last time." ”

"Okay, I'll explain it to you." Ye Luo put his hands down from the keyboard, turned the boss's chair slightly, and said to Song Yan: "This matter." Let's start with the validity period of the copyright of the music.

In the United States, the copyright of music is valid for 60 years. When a piece of music reaches the end of its 60th year of distribution, it is no longer protected by copyright law, but goes into the public domain.

Public domain. It refers to the public cultural heritage, a collection of the crystallization of the wisdom of all human beings that can be used and processed by anyone without restrictions.

Then, if the music has been released for less than 60 years, it is protected by copyright law, and you have to say hello in advance and pay for it to use or process it.

That's easy to understand, right? ”

"I know that." Song Yan nodded, and then guessed: "Then you adapted "Roal" last time, and used a piece of music owned by Raymond Company's copyright in it. I didn't say hello to anyone, and I didn't pay anyone else, so Raymond sued us? ”

"You see, you've learned to answer, it's so smart." Ye Luo nodded, "But, you know, the new version of Roal." How much Raimon copyrighted music do I use? ”

"How much?" Song Yan asked.

"For a second." Ye Luo said, "Only for a second. The main chorus transition of the song. I used a second of their music. ”

"Then why are you doing that?" Song Yan asked.

"Let me start by answering what you mean by a sampler. You know what a sampler is, and you know why I did it. Ye Luo smiled, "Sampler ghost is a contemptuous term for an alternative record company in the music industry.

What is called sampling, is to cut parts of an existing music record and then collage them into your own work.

On the way to the rise of hip-hop music in the United States. Sampling plays an important role.

Many of the masterpieces of the golden age of hip-hop are large platters of random sampling and collage. This would seem unthinkable now, but it was normal at the time.

It wasn't until the nineties of the last century that the situation was different and the copyright law came out. This sampling behavior. Boycotted by copyright law. There are many cases in this regard, the most famous one is that seven years ago, a best-selling record of Rolling Time Records, which was promoted around the world, sampled a two-second piece of old music, and was sued by the copyright owner, Raymond Company, for 50 million US dollars. Rolling Records eventually lost the case.

Then the copyright law resists sampling, but sampling is a habit that American musicians have developed for a long time, and in this contradictory context, sampling ghosts came into being.

What is a sampling ghost, that is, some record companies, at an extremely low price, buy a large number of old record copyrights that are no longer released, pinch them in their own hands, and then do their own, do not make music, only listen to music.

Once another company samples their records, they take them to court and earn the compensation.

Among them, Raymond is the most notorious sampler in the United States, who became famous in the first war seven years ago, and has only been imitated since then, and has never been surpassed. ”

When Ye Luo said this, Song Yan, who was smart enough to be smart in ice and snow, had already understood: "So you deliberately sampled Raymond's copyrighted music, and used Raymond's name to advertise our beauty company?" ”

"That's right." Ye Luo said with a smile, "Although the copyright law is the same, in the American music industry, there is actually a collective disdain for sampling ghosts.

Of course, if the sampling time is very long, say ten seconds, or even longer, you deserve it, and people will not sympathize with you. This degree is important.

If it's a second, don't worry, although we may have to pay a little compensation in the end, but the public opinion of the American music industry is definitely on our side.

And even if public opinion is not on our side, it's okay, it's famous anyway. Regardless of whether it is good or not, let's go out first, so that music fans across the United States will know the existence of our beauty company.

This is equivalent to spending a little advertising money and letting the famous Raymond company advertise for us.

The effect of this kind of advertising will be better than spending the same amount of money to do real advertising, after all, this is gossip in the professional field, and music fans like to hear about it. ”

Song Yan said: "Then coupled with the disclosure of Merina's lawsuit, Beauty Company will be concerned by the public again." ”

"Yes, with the promotion of these two public opinion crazes, the fame of the beauty company has been established, and the beauty company has also attracted attention in the music area of the music scene." Ye Luo smiled slightly, "So Mr. Song, you really want to be hot." (To be continued......)