"It's really hard for us to understand what you're thinking, Mr. Shen." The U.S. Secretary of Commerce and China's Secretary of Commerce sat with Shen Zhenghui, posing as if they were chatting, but they were separated by staff members, making it clear that they were not gossiping.

"Is there anything incomprehensible?" Shen Zhenghui spread out his hand.

"This offer you made seems to be against you." The U.S. Secretary of Commerce laughed twice, "I don't see any benefit to you if you want to normalize the use of online novels for the works cited and borrowed from copyright." In particular," he added, "when these novels are valued and adapted into TV series and movie scripts, you mainly pay for the copyright, which is really ......"

China's commerce minister didn't say anything, but his eyes showed the same look as the U.S. commerce secretary, indicating the same idea.

"I think that's understandable," Shen replied, "as you can see, in this situation, more and more creations have to absorb nutrients from many existing works, and the doujin world is flourishing day by day. He turned his attention to China's Minister of Commerce, "Mr. Minister can probably understand the current situation of China's online literature industry, the scale of his output value, etc., and also understand that this industry will have more room for development in the future." ”

Mr. China's Minister of Commerce shrugged his shoulders, "You're right when you say that. ”

"So let's put it this way, you may think that there should be a lot of options for choosing works that don't conflict with other copyrights in the huge online literary world, but what I see is different. I think that the integration of copyright is an important trend for the future, and I would like to be able to promote this trend. ”

"Without your push. It's not going to be a trend. The U.S. Commerce Secretary asked with a wink.

"Maybe," Shen Zhenghui tilted his head, "Maybe this is another long-term process, after all, you see, "The Avengers" is a good example. ”

Both ministers were a little thoughtful, "You mean that in the future, online literature will be like superhero comics, creating a huge output value?" The U.S. Secretary of Commerce asked impatiently. Huge impetus to the film and television industry? ”

"I think so," Shen Zhenghui pursed his lips, "and as we can see." Copyright is the biggest obstacle. ”

"So you'd like to be able to create a worldwide copyright union? Just like the copyright of a song, the utility of the copyright is charged and subsidized to the copyright owner? The U.S. Secretary of Commerce asked rhetorically.

"I think that's reasonable, but online fiction is a very low-end industry, and the vast majority of its practitioners have little income. So I hope that for online novels can be exempted from this than copyright fees. Of course, when the novel is officially published and the novel is adapted into a movie or TV series, this copyright tax can be collected. ”

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce smiled and shook his head, "It's obviously good for China," he said, "and now the world knows that China's online novel industry is the best in the world." ”

"But in terms of output value, it's still very low." Shen Zhenghui spread out his hand.

"You have 1.3 billion cheap screenwriters," the US minister said nonsense like O'Neill. "It's unfair competition."

Shen Zhenghui smiled and stared at each other with eyes like a fool.

The gentleman blushed slightly, but immediately he stared at China's commerce minister with the same gaze. "What do you think, Mr. Minister?"

"Ahem," the minister cleared his throat, "I think it's a constructive idea," he said, "and we should hear more from the business community." ”

The views of people in the American business circles are certainly mixed, and the views of the Chinese business people are certainly relatively unified.

"I think it's a big problem to define the degree of copyright use," said China's commerce minister for a while, "and it's obvious that different copyright prices are different, and a unified coordinating body may not necessarily be able to play a coordinating role." Or we can create a marketplace to conduct self-selected matching transactions for different levels of copyright use. ”

"It's like trading stock markets or commodity futures?" The U.S. Secretary of Commerce asked.

"Personally, I think China and the United States can come up with a standard for this kind of transaction, and then on the basis of this standard, we can carry out a pilot between China and the United States, and then promote it to the whole world." The Chinese minister proposed, and he glanced at Shen Zhenghui and then at the U.S. Secretary of Commerce and said, "I think Mr. Shen is most likely the first buyer in this market." ”

The U.S. Secretary of Commerce also seems to be interested, and of course, he sees more of a benefit in this so-called trading market, "I think it's an interesting proposal," he said, "or we can bring it up at the meeting and see if people in the business community have their ideas." ”

Shen Zhenghui sat aside quite quietly, feeling very satisfied in his heart.

Thus, during the Chair's visit to the United States, the Cultural Copyright Marketplace (pilot) was an important element of the outcomes. Americans are certainly afraid that Chinese novelists and screenwriters will impact the jobs of American novelists and screenwriters, after all, it can be seen from the shooting of several works selected by Shen Zhenghui that there are not a few people who understand Western culture and Western society among Chinese, and from the side of Western society, it is a tragedy, and many people's understanding of China is still in the era of stereotype and brainwashing. The events of "Dominating Hollywood" and "Codename Shero" have created enough sense of crisis in Americans that a Chinese can figure out how Hollywood works and various rules by relying entirely on public media information -- of course, it is a certain exaggeration, but the vast majority of Americans are convinced of it. With the addition of works like "The Magical Apprentice," many Americans have a deep fear that Chinese fiction will dwarf American novels and screenwriters. Even a large number of media claim that the movie and TV series scripts selected by Shen Zhenghui are all excellent online novels, that is to say, they are selected from 100,000 or millions of works. Not every online writer has this ability, but there are still many people who believe that the country of 1.3 billion writers is enough to flood the American market, if they are allowed to write all kinds of American fandom. Then the spiritual food of Americans will also become madeinChina, so the only way to save American culture is to close the country, absolutely not let the Chinese rush in, translating Chinese online novels is an unpatriotic performance.

Of course, at the top of the cultural industry, Hollywood, the bigwigs of this industry are much more rational. The impact they see on China's cultural works is from another angle. Even good is. This will be a powerful weapon they will use to suppress the guild, the Screenwriters' Guild. They never believe that China's online writers and screenwriters can occupy the United States, and China's own film and television are a mess, all the time. There are only a handful of people who can use online writers and screenwriters well. Even if there are outstanding people, compared with official screenwriters, there are still very few. Moreover, these writers are not enough to replace the work of screenwriters as original authors. When it comes to film and TV series adaptations. There is still a need for a lot of screenwriters. They are even very aware of the advisory group used by Shen Zhenghui, which means that open copyright actually only means the increase of original scripts, and as far as major companies are concerned, whose script department does not have a collection of thousands of scripts that cannot be filmed at all?

According to the situation that has emerged in China, the opening of copyright actually means more and greater investment and growth opportunities in this industry. Just as ordinary Americans see threats at the instigation, Hollywood leaders see more opportunities. They have more copyrights in their hands, and the Chinese know the United States. What about a script about an American theme? They use American ideas, American themes. For Hollywood, which has dumped American culture around the world, it feels like it is the largest copyright vault that can't be bypassed.

And from another point of view, the case between the previous guild and Jinjiang. The Chinese have unscrupulously used American copyright on their own turf, but the U.S. prosecution in China did not end well. This means that Americans simply cannot effectively protect their copyright interests. If it's just online novels, forget it - of course, with the development of the online novel market, this area of interest will also be more and more great. The Chinese obviously don't think about Americans in TV dramas and movies, unless their movies are going to be released in the United States. So, in fact, they will think that the deal of copyrights is, in a sense, really good for the Americans. Even though only a director like Shen Zhenghui may have used the American rights at first, it is clear that confident Americans believe that more and more films may use the rights or images of films such as Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers. The most important thing is that once such a door is opened, the interests of other parties can be resolved through this channel - such as the online copyright of movies and TV series, the copyright of peripheral items, the right of celebrity portraits, and so on.

China, this big market has always been protected by their own government, and now is a good moment to open the door to this protection, and there is a good excuse, and this excuse is provided by a Chinese.

On the Chinese side, they naturally do not fail to think of the interests that the Americans want, but from another angle, the WTO's restraint on the Chinese government cannot be regarded as a fart in terms of the Chinese government's character, so the round after round of network rectification is not entirely the onset of various diseases of the bureaucracy. Originally, the copyright issue was a headache for the Chinese government, and it was best to deal with it in the past, but Shen Zhenghui's achievements in recent years gave them new hope.

In the eyes of the Chinese government, there seems to be a possibility that the copyright of Chinese culture will be exported to the outside world. Cultural export is what all big governments want to see the most, and the way to improve soft power is to export their influence to the outside world, and this influence is still carried out in a subtle way. It's like the so-called daily wave and Korean wave, which are both an appendage of economic development and economic development itself, and there is no so-called American wave, because Hollywood in the United States is not a small trend, it is a big trend worldwide.

China's economy is growing too fast and it can't keep up with entertainment a bit. As a result, the export of culture has been largely restricted, and now all that can be done is to broadcast the soap operas of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in Africa, and to export washing, cutting, blowing and Qiong Yao in places like Vietnam.

Shen Zhenghui's open-mindedness is exactly in line with China's rapidly rising great power mentality. Therefore, although China's domestic film and television entertainment market is still in the stage of development, they have already achieved great results internationally. Therefore, in this regard, they cannot help but apply their own experience in economic construction, and feel that in terms of cultural output, they can maintain an annual economic growth of 8 percent.

In short, both parties are very interested in the deal and feel that they have an advantage in the deal, or even if they don't have an advantage in the short term, they can have an advantage in the long term, and they can definitely benefit from it. But when negotiating, they both exaggerate each other's advantages and hope to fight for more interests of their own side. Obviously, when it comes to copyright deals, the positions of ordinary authors and large companies are also different, and although Chinese novelists and writers dream that their works can be favored by Hollywood (or brought into Hollywood by Shen Zhenghui), how can American writers not think that their works will also be favored by film and television companies outside the United States or cited for royalties? Great writers such as Rowling may not care too much about the fandom of their works, but a group of authors who are not high or low still expect copyright to reap the benefits of their own life and fifty years after their death! In addition, there are a large number of film and television companies with film libraries, game companies with copyrights, etc., and the same rights as music copyrights suddenly appeared, and naturally some people were overjoyed.

All in all, Shen Zhenghui took advantage of the opportunity of this Sino-US meeting to create an amazing situation, and as for what he can get, it depends on his own calculations through this matter. In any case, the negotiation of cultural copyright exchanges has become a major achievement of the president's visit to the United States, but more practical results will need to be realized. In this regard, Hollywood can't help but start to speculate, maybe this is because Shen Zhenghui's next work has to "quote" one or more works, and it may be too much of an obstacle to talk about it one by one, and he wants to solve this problem once and for all. (To be continued......)

PS: Hey, born in sorrow (work) and died in peace (release) happiness (false).