"Director, I think you should pay attention to this situation."

In the midst of Choi Jung-won's busy work, Liang Wentai, the head of the planning office of the film distribution department of C.J Group, came to the door.

At present, Choi Jung-won is the head of the entire film and television distribution department of C.J Group, so if there is any problem in many fields such as film production, distribution, release, and DVD, he needs to report to him.

However, the planning office rarely intersects with him.

Under normal circumstances, whenever there is planning work, Choi Jung-won will explain it to Bae Shin-so, the director of the film distribution department, and then he will explain it.

Similarly, the affairs under the film distribution department are generally not reported directly to him.

At this time, Liang Wentai appeared here, which made Cui Zhengyuan wonder if there was something dirty inside the film distribution department?

This must not be underestimated, the tilting in the workplace is not at all simpler than in politics.

Usually, in the case of over-reporting, the subordinate grasps something unclean about the boss and then reports it to the higher management.

In this way, once the boss is punished, then the benefit will definitely be reported to the person.

However, even if Bae Shin-so has any faults, it is impossible for Choi Jung-won to take him down lightly.

Although he is only a minister within the C.J Group, he is also the vice president of the Korean Film Production Association and the Association for the Promotion and Exchange of Korean Film Culture.

In addition, Bae Shin-so's teacher is Jung Jin-tae, the head tutor of the Department of Video Broadcasting at Dongguk University.

Chung Jin-tae is also a Seoul lawmaker from the New GJ Party and a major supporter of Park Geun-H and Na Jing-won.

It can be said that behind a small minister, the relationship involved is quite complicated. This makes Cui Zhengyuan deal with it, and he must be cautious.

Therefore, looking at the text on the table, he did not open it immediately, but asked cautiously, "Does Minister Pei know over there?" ”

Liang Wentai's face was calm, and he hurriedly replied: "This issue is the concern of our distribution department. It was also Minister Pei who asked me to send it over. He said that how to solve this matter must be instructed by the director. ”

Cui Zhengyuan exhaled and relaxed.

It turned out that it was not that there was a conflict within the film distribution department, but that there was a problem that was difficult to solve, so Liang Wentai was sent to present it.

With a relaxed mood, Cui Zhengyuan opened the text and browsed.

But when he looked closely, his brows furrowed tightly. "Have you confirmed this?"

Seeing that Cui Zhengyuan also looked bad. Liang Wentai couldn't help but admire Minister Pei's wisdom.

When they first discovered this problem, they were going to solve it in the planning room. In their opinion, the problem does not seem to be a big deal.

But Minister Pei, who happened to be on a routine inspection, saw it, and after some questioning, the minister instructed him that this issue must be reported to Director Choi Zhengyuan first.

What is the problem that makes Bae Shin-so so cautious and makes Choi Jung-won feel strict?

It turns out that since the hit of "Sunshine Sisters", it has set off a great influence in society.

While making many people nostalgic for their youth and the past. It also made some unscrupulous businesses have bad thoughts.

According to the investigation of the planning office, since the release of the film, dozens of businesses have borrowed the concept and content of the film without permission. Illegal profit-making.

For example, there is a ready-made clothing company that designs, produces and sells nostalgic clothing that is very similar to the one in the movie without authorization.

You must know that in line with the idea that fat water does not flow into outsiders' fields, the clothes that appear in "Sunshine Sisters". It's basically written by Hyo-min.

And the copyright of these works with a nostalgic style is also shared by her and A.P. company. If someone else wants to, they have to be authorized. Otherwise, it is piracy and infringement.

What's more, some vendors in Dongdaemun Market actually hung portraits of the characters in the film as signboards to attract business.

In this report, one of the most serious problems pointed out by the distribution department is that it is found that a videotape with all the soundtrack music in the film is becoming popular in the market.

The price of these tapes is very cheap, and most of them are only about 30,000 won.

In the videotape, the victim adds some videos with irrelevant content, accompanied by the soundtrack of the movie, which becomes a tool for the wrongdoers to make profits.

South Korea is a country that attaches great importance to copyright awareness, and actions such as the above undoubtedly infringe on the interests of the C.J Group, the producer of the film.

It stands to reason that these acts are also very simple to deal with, and they can go directly to the law. Guarantee that if you sue one accurately, none of the people involved can escape, and you have to pay a large sum of money.

However, since the distribution department did not dare to make its own assertion and reported to him, it was obvious that there was something difficult in it.

Thinking of this, Cui Zhengyuan once again calmed down and carefully studied the entire report.

This time, he finally found out that something was wrong.

Although the infringement of portrait rights and copyrights is carried out by some unscrupulous businesses, there are differences in scale.

For example, the vendors in Dongdaemun, which were highlighted by Bae Shin-so with a red pen, are obviously not suitable for the established law to be investigated.

C.J Group has a big family and strong capital, and in the eyes of many people in the world, it is a well-deserved powerhouse.

And those street vendors, who get up early and stay late every day, earn just a hard-earned money.

For the street vendors who barely make ends meet every day, if they are brought to court, the huge amount of tort damages is enough to leave them in debt immediately, and even the family financially bankrupt.

Although legally speaking, C.J Group is doing the right thing. But from a secular point of view, there is inevitably a suspicion of bullying the weak.

In this way, even if the C.J Group wins, I am afraid that its image will be ruined.

For C.J Group, which is mainly engaged in the entertainment industry, the infringement damages are obviously not comparable to their own interests.

This shows that Bae Shin-so also knows the difficulties, so he did not arbitrarily make a decision to dispose of it, but handed over the decision to the reason.

Faced with this situation, the film distribution department is obviously in a dilemma.

If they don't pursue it, if they are noticed by their superiors in the future, they will feel that they are passive and slacking off. Ignoring the interests of the company.

However, if it is pursued through normal legal channels, it may be condemned by public opinion from the outside world and damage the image of the group.

Since it is difficult to deal with both ends, it is better to hand over the problem. Whatever the boss instructs, do below. In this way, there is no need to be responsible.

Regardless, the film distribution department did nothing wrong. Because they don't have the ability to take responsibility accordingly, they have to turn over the problem.

After getting the report, Cui Zhengyuan pondered it for several days before finally coming up with a draft.

"That's it. We must treat these unscrupulous businesses differently for infringement. Like these vendors, you can go and talk to them and get them to pay some nominal fee to use these image rights. But remember, be sure to wait for the media and reporters to follow up on the interview before you go. Let the reporters who go to the interview ask questions with some direction, and be sure to make these vendors feel the pressure. "Choi Jung-won's first measure. Very targeted.

Cui Zhengyuan in his previous life climbed up step by step from the bottom, so he has a clearer understanding of the living conditions and people's hearts at the grassroots level.

Those vendors get up early and stay late. Painstaking management is indeed worthy of the toiling public. But it is these people, because they are forced by life, that they are interested in doing some things that take advantage of them. But it's very reassuring.

If you talk to them and talk to them, then these people will think that you are weak and easy to bully, and they will not take you seriously at all.

Or just learn from the practice of most of South Korea's black-hearted capitalists. Dare to infringe on their own interests, find the underworld and smash their stalls.

But it is clear that Cui Zhengyuan cherishes his feathers extraordinarily. In this critical period of the general election, he is also unwilling to provoke criticism on himself.

If you can't be violent or soft-spoken, then there is only one way you can use.

That is, scare.

They are all ordinary people, and what is involved in daily life is just a short and trivial matter in the family. Perhaps many of them may not understand what infringement is.

Imagine a time like this, and suddenly the media and reporters come to the door in a pretentious manner, and say conclusively that you have broken the law.

Think about it, ordinary people, how can they be flustered?

At this stage, when the people from the C.J Group come forward again, things will be much easier.

However, for street vendors who have difficulties in life, Cui Zhengyuan needs to worry about his image and do it more tactfully. But like that kind of garment manufacturers and private videotapes, Cui Zhengyuan is not so polite.

On the same day, C.J Group exposed the garment manufacturer to the prosecutor's office.

The Commercial Crime Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Station and the Seoul High Public Prosecutor's Office, which received the report, jointly seized the factory and seized account books and a number of finished products, all of which became irrefutable evidence.

None of the factory owners and management involved in the case ran away, and all of them were arrested.

After investigation by the procuratorate and the police station, it was found that the infringement of the factory was true and sufficient to accept the legal ruling.

Soon after, the Seoul High Court ruled as follows.

The person in charge and the management of the factory involved in the case must compensate the infringed C.J Group according to 30 times the total amount of the infringing products that have been sold.

In addition, because of the infringement, the factory manager must again compensate C.J Group for a large amount of money in accordance with the Copyright Protection Act.

Added together, it is estimated that the factory is not far from going out of business. And the person in charge of the factory must be bankrupt.

As for the theft of the DVD, after investigation by the South Korean police, it was found that its origin was in the area where the Korean ethnic group lived in northeast China.

To this end, the South Korean police and the Chinese police have communicated and implored the Chinese police to assist in the arrest of the criminals.

But unfortunately, although the Chinese police found the location of the theft of the DVD and destroyed the recorder, several criminals involved have already fled. (To be continued......)