In the blink of an eye, a few days have passed since New Year's Day, and Li Lin's signing meeting is like tea, and each of his signing meetings will attract a large number of small newspapers and magazines to follow up and report.

And his book signing sessions did not disappoint those newspapers, almost every one of them was full.

Sony's ban had no effect on him.

On the other side, the war between Sony and Avril is getting more and more urgent.

After Avril learned that Sony was going to ban herself, she finally let go of her last reserve and made an appointment with reporters to hold an exclusive interview.

"To be honest, Sony was actually very nice to me." Avril said to the reporter, and then she said to the reporter again with the reporter's surprised expression: "It was Esta who single-handedly dug me out, and I am very grateful to them." ”

"But ......."

Avril's voice changed, "I don't know when Sony started to interfere with my creation. ”

"They said that the style was wrong, and they said that the album was postponed, that they avoided others, and then they said that it was for my own good, and so on, and said a lot of things, just to get me to cooperate with them."

"I've put up with it."

"Because it was Alysta who brought me to this circle, I am grateful to them, so I will choose to remain silent about some excessive things."

"But this time, Sony just went too far."

"When Li Lin's "Opera 2" was very popular, I used to say that I wanted to communicate with Li Lin, but Sony stopped me, they thought that Li Lin's "Opera 2" was a big trend, so they forced me to release a single to deal with their fans, and the quality of this single you know. Bad reviews are flooding. ”

"After that, I thought about releasing an album at the beginning of the release of Li Lin's "M. Happy", but it was also Sony that stopped me. They don't think I have any chance of winning M. Happy, but in reality, I don't care if I have a chance to win, I care about the music, but unfortunately, Sony doesn't allow it. ”

"Later, Sony was going to split my album again. Because they didn't think there was a need for this album to use so many good songs, and they wanted to take the songs from my album and give them to new people, and I finally couldn't stand it. ”

"Why? Why should I sing my own songs to others? It's not that I don't want to sing. On the contrary, I really liked the songs, which I had carefully selected, but the company told me to give them up. Otherwise, I'll be banned. I couldn't bear it anymore to leave Sony and take my old club to court. ”

Soon, Avril's words appeared in the newspapers, and his words aroused the sympathy of many Americans, and many fans personally mailed her letters to comfort her.

"We definitely didn't give up Avril's songs to newcomers."

A Sony spokesperson immediately jumped out and denied it, "As for the wrong style and the release time of the album, this is a normal business operation." It has nothing to do with the artist, if the artist does not agree, you can protest. We also take into account the mood of the artist. ”

"Considering the mood of the artist? I have protested with you, but what do you say? This is the company's decision, and the artist has no right to dictate. Avril shouted through the air, "This sentence was originally your response to me when I protested, but now you say that you will consider it?" Don't you think your words are becoming too fast? ”

"We just said we would consider it, but we didn't say it would be." A Sony spokesperson quickly changed his tune, "As for you, Avril Lavigne, a traitor, you are not qualified to comment on what Sony has done here." ”

"Aren't you going to take Razoni to court? See you in court. ”

The Sony spokesman was simply angry.

There are still people who dare to shout in the air, it is simply ignoring the majesty of the Sony Empire, you know, dare to slap Sony in the face in front of Sony, how long has it been since I met it?

He was immediately furious.

"Tell Avril for me, our Sony won't be fighting with her anymore, if you have any skills, just use it, we'll see you in court."

"Since the establishment of Sony, we have never been afraid of anyone."

Avril, the little punk princess, was also angry after reading the newspaper, and she immediately put down her cruel words, "If you go up, you can go up, who is afraid of whom." ”

Avril Lavigne, who had already prepared the materials, submitted them directly to the New York court.

The material is simple.

is what Sony Music has interfered with her records in the past few years, and intends to split her album and take away the copyright of her songs, and her demands are very simple.

One is to ask Sony Music to return her copyright.

The second is to ask the court to rule that the contract between her and Sony Music is invalid and ask the court to grant her freedom.

As soon as this news came out, the entire American music scene was in an uproar.

When Avril and Sony Music went to war, everyone thought that the two would eventually get back together, for the simple reason that Avril's contract was in Sony's hands.

As long as this contract is in Sony's hands for a day, Avril will not be able to escape from Sony's Five Fingers Mountain for a day.

The reason is very simple, the United States is a country that advocates the spirit of contract, here, no one dares to play with the contract, and the contract between Avril and Sony is Avril's fatal point, as long as the contract does not expire for a day, Avril will be subject to Sony for a day.

As for the breach of contract? That's impossible.

With Avril's current status and fame, the liquidated damages will be terrifyingly high, once the contract is breached, Avril's bankruptcy is not enough to compensate, as for whether other record companies may want to help Avril out of the liquidated damages, this is unlikely.

Because in the United States, liquidated damages are not fixed, but floating, the higher your fame, higher your status, and the higher your value, the higher the liquidated damages, and if the record company wants to redeem Avril Lavigne in the form of liquidated damages, they will not make a fuss at all.

Because of this trouble, it will only make Avril's liquidated damages rise.

But they never expected that Avril did want to terminate the contract with Sony, but the way to terminate the contract was not to pay liquidated damages, but to sue Sony to the court, asking the court to rule that the contract between Sony and Avril was invalid on the grounds that Sony's approach had lost the interests of fans.

When many people heard this reason, they were stunned at the time, in their concept, what does the contract between the company and the artist have to do with the fans? Why would they ask the court to invalidate the contract on the grounds of harming the interests of fans, in their eyes, this is something that cannot be beaten.

But when they turned to the matter of American law, they were surprised to find that this article was actually possible.

Although the law stipulates that 'a contract will be invalid only if it harms the interests of consumers', fans are also consumers in a sense.

Suddenly, the American music scene was boiling, Hollywood was boiling, and all the artists and companies in the three circles of film and television songs were looking at it.

This is an unprecedented accusation.

Once successful, it will set a precedent.

A precedent for the invalidation of the contract between an artist and a company, which has an indescribable effect for artists in the three circles of film and television songs, after all, the United States is a country that follows precedents.

If Avril wins the lawsuit with Sony, then other artists can directly cite this case as a precedent when they fight a lawsuit with the company.

"It doesn't make sense." When interviewed by reporters, a spokesman for Columbia Pictures directly angrily rebuked Avril, "There has never been such a precedent." ”

"If Avril wins, it will be a nightmare for all the studios, record labels, TV production companies."

"We hope that the court will carefully consider our opinion."

The words of the spokesman of Columbia Pictures immediately attracted the approval of many film and TV series companies, and even many record companies, including Universal Music, all put pressure on the court, hoping that the court could consider it carefully.

They knew very well that once the court ruled in Avril's favor, then they would not have a good life in the future.

Now in the American entertainment industry, although the status of the artist is equal to the status of the company on the surface, in fact, the artist is still under the company, but the company will regress the artist in some small things, but for some big problems, the company will not give in at all.

Unless you can start your own company and make your own decisions.

But if Avril and Sony win the lawsuit, it means that the contract can no longer bind the artist, and once the artist is dissatisfied, he will immediately ask the court to rule that the contract is invalid.

Think about it, it's a huge disaster.

So all the companies are working together, like the court to put pressure on it, hoping that the court will consider it carefully.

At the same time, all the artists are supporting Avril.

They also knew that if Avril Lavigne won, it would be a lawsuit that could go down in history and completely change the status between the artist and the company.

It is not said that the artist completely overwhelms the company, but the artist will be completely equal to the company.

A contract that is no longer invalid will become a lifesaver for artists.

"I'm looking forward to Avril's victory."

Hollywood's superstar, Morgan. Freeman spoke, "As we all know, artists will always be in a weak position in the confrontation with the company, because a paper contract firmly binds the artist to the company's chariot, yes, the company can spoil the artist at will, but if Avril wins the lawsuit, this situation will undoubtedly change." ”

"Of course, I have no intention of challenging the order of Hollywood, I am just stating a basic fact that we artists need more freedom."

Foreign entertainment circles ridicule Hollywood entertainers.

It is said that a Hollywood artist is just a puppet on the director's baton, at the mercy of the director, without his own soul, and the character deduced has no thoughts.

But is this what they think?

Of course not, they also want to interpret their own ideas, but in Hollywood, artists have to dance to the director's stick, and even the emperor superstar is inevitably affected.

After all, if a movie fails, the most affected person is the actor, except for the director. (To be continued......)