Chapter 2: Survival First
The history of this world took a fork in the road in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the open-minded Mengyuan Empire did not appear.
Without the Mengyuan Empire, which annexed the Eight Desolations, although the Southern Song Dynasty was eventually destroyed, it was a Shandong Han named Wen Runxia who mixed up with Kyushu.
The Daqian Empire established by Wen Runxia not only inherited the mercantilist national policy of the Song Dynasty, but also actively carried out overseas colonial expansion, and eventually became the world's first empire on which the sun never sets.
After several ups and downs and a 637-year reign, the Great Qian Empire was hit off the stage of history by the surging tide of the domestic bourgeois revolution that set fire to the plains.
Perhaps it is the inertia of history, or perhaps it is purely an accident, but the current Kyushu Huaxia, together with the last three overseas enclaves, suddenly revered the central government -- the People's Republic of China.
It is the world's largest republic in terms of comprehensive national strength, a rich, prosperous, peaceful and stable republic, and a republic that has been challenged by the six black and gold countries and the four eaglets of Europe.
It is true that becoming a citizen of such a superpower is an extremely refreshing experience from the top of his head to the soles of his feet for Chen Mo, who has always been proud that he is Chinese and proud of the brilliant history of Chinese civilization created by his ancestors.
However, now that he has a family and can no longer go back, Chen Mo, who only has the 208 yuan and five cents he earned from working in the juvenile detention center, but is burdened with huge debts, obviously must first solve the problem of livelihood before he can talk about the sense of belonging and honor of the country.
Coupled with the pursuit of personal ideals, Chen Mo did not hesitate to refuse to sign the letter of guarantee just now.
It's ashamed to say that with Chen Mo's knowledge and life experience, he really can't think of anything else he can do besides the musician route.
Of course, even if Guo Xinyi didn't appear just now, Chen Mo would not rush into the real entertainment industry, he had seen enough of the bullshit news in the entertainment industry before the crossing, he just wanted to make music purely, and by the way, make some money to support his family.
Therefore, maintaining an unfettered and free body, selling music on the Internet has become Chen Mo's only choice.
And this is not a fool's dream, because there are many musicians in the earth world who have achieved success through this non-mainstream way, and they have a common name, called - Internet singers.
Although the fused memories show that the Internet in this world seems to be more suitable for Internet singers to show their ambitions, what the situation is will need to be investigated by Chen Mo himself.
"It seems that today's primary goal must be changed, I need to find an Internet café to check the Internet first!"
Rubbing his cheeks, which were still a little painful, Chen Moran chose the opposite direction to the nanny car and strode out.
About half an hour later, Chen Mo was already in a large Internet café, and after soaking the instant noodles he bought at the bar, he clicked on a browser and began to look up information on the Internet.
It doesn't matter if you don't go online, as soon as you go online, Chen Mo immediately found that the network of this parallel world is really very different from the network of the earth world!
No piracy!
In this parallel world of the online world, you can't find a pirated version of audio and video! I can't find pirated copies of scientific and literary materials!
A very small number of free downloadable content is also issued to the original author with the most eye-catching text link, a statement of waiver of copyright income, and those statements even have an exclusive notary number!
At the same time, there is no piracy, and the various websites in this parallel world are also very clean, and there are no pop-up advertisements with sexual suggestives on each website, all of which are refreshing and professional.
After a not too difficult search, Chen Mo successfully found the foundation that created this big difference - the "Cultural Patent Act"!
China's entertainment industry in this parallel world has developed and prospered due to its unparalleled national strength, and the Cultural Patent Act, which was established nearly 200 years ago, has laid the most solid foundation for this development and prosperity.
After 200 years of patching and updating, the "Cultural Patent Act" has been rigorous to the point of cultural works such as music, novels, film and television dramas, etc., as long as it can be confirmed that the content overlap between the two parts exceeds 20%, then you can immediately apply for the degree of unconditional banning of imitators by violent organs!
Of course, considering the special situation of non-plagiarism but similar creativity, the bill also stipulates that if the authorization and understanding of the creator is obtained, then even if the content overlaps more than 50%, there is no need to worry about being blocked.
On the other hand, the copyright protection period of cultural patents is also slightly shorter than that of invention patents, basically after five years, the term of 'full patent copyright' ends, followed by the fifteen-year term of basic patent copyright, and the overlapping tolerance of content allowed by law has increased sharply to 45%.
As for the copyright income, it is a little complicated to calculate, the physical copyright income, the copyright income from overseas sales, the joint and derivative copyright income, the online copyright income, the copyright income of the franchise, the copyright income of the artist alliance, and the income from the retroactive fine of piracy are a lot of things, and it involves the issue of different tax rates, and Chen Mo is dizzy to watch.
Then, there is the more dizzying copyright dispute problem, no matter how perfect the copyright system is, there will still be copyright disputes, Chen Mo only watched a copyright dispute case that lasted for three months, and finally got the final ruling, and he was completely dizzy, which made him skip this part of the content directly, and only noticed that cultural products should go to any copyright office to register their copyright for free within three days after they were created and published.
Losing the overview of the Copyright Act, Chen Mo continued to search for the issue of online copyright income.
It is not difficult to get a result from this new problem - in this parallel world of China, even if you only publish original songs and original novels on the Internet, as long as the content is good and popular, you can get a lot of copyright income.
Take online paid music as an example, after Chen Mo checked the data of several music websites, he got the result that the more popular paid music basically costs 10 yuan for permanent online listening and 20 yuan for licensed download.
Such a price, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't seem to be cheap, but the song with the highest data found by Chen Mo has exceeded five million in terms of paid online listening and downloading data!
Although it is not ruled out that the website may make fake data, even if the data is cut in half, it is still a considerable amount of money.
And from this, it can be seen that Chinese netizens in this parallel world clearly have a strong and almost perverted genuine consumption power!
After all, as the only superpower with unparalleled national strength, the huge middle class generated by the country's strength and people's wealth, coupled with the convenient online payment system, has transformed the potential paid music user base into a terrifying one.
Well, in this kind of world where the entertainment industry is highly developed, in fact, the income of being a star actor is higher and faster, but it is a pity that this path that Chen Mo wants to take the most has been blocked by his undead predecessor.
As Guo Xinyi's agent said, Chen Mo will not even think about taking this road again for at least three or five years, and even if he makes a comeback in a few years, he will definitely be troubled.
"Fortunately, although I can't help but get involved in the entertainment industry, I didn't plan to be a director and actor, so I don't need to worry about being ...... by Guo Xiao, who is childish and poor Ah, my face! ”
Before Chen Mo could finish his rejoicing, he was defeated by the bucket of instant noodles for 5 yuan.
The question of survival is indeed the most basic problem that mankind must overcome.