Chapter 537: Delegation and Authorization
Although the time was short, Uehara Tomoe, Hao Ping, and Hosoi Shi discussed the details again, and finally finalized the situation in this regard.
After making a decision, the others continued to stay in the Bandai Namco building to negotiate cooperation, but Hao Ping finally didn't get involved, and walked out of the Bandai Namco building alone under the strange eyes of the front desk lady, and went back to G Club alone.
Tomoe Uehara and his entourage returned to the conference room agreed upon by Bandai Namco and expressed their apologies for temporarily suspending the meeting.
Probably for the sake of Miss Uehara always being a woman, the people at Bandai Namco laughed and talked about it.
Someone smiled and said, "Since someone from your club has arrived again, why didn't you come over to talk about it together?" ”
Miss Uehara, a person-like figure, deliberately showed a little strangeness when she heard this, and then said with a smile: "It's okay, it's not a big deal, and it has nothing to do with our negotiations today." ”
Hosoi Zhi and Uehara Tomonobu smiled in their hearts when they heard this, negotiating this kind of thing, playing psychology is the basic skill.
The expression shown by Uehara Tomoe is clearly related to the negotiation, and there is no silver to add here, I am afraid that the people in the Bandai Namco on the other side will spend a lot of brains to guess what Hao Ping said.
Sure enough, hearing Yue Uehara say this, the people of Bandai Namco all changed color and exchanged words with each other in a low voice.
"Since it has nothing to do with the negotiations, let's continue with the content of today's negotiations." I don't know what the people of Bandai Namco discussed, but the representative of Bandai Namco finally said, "Then the topic of the previous topic is the proposal to license the merchandise of your company's "Fate" to Bandai Toy Manufacturing, a subsidiary of our company......
All in all, the negotiations continued.
Business negotiation is sometimes simple and complicated...... That's also really complicated. Deciding to cooperate may be a matter of one or two sentences, but the specific way of cooperation, profit sharing and other trivial matters are simply impossible to talk about.
Fortunately, since it is a matter of making money, whether it is Miss Uehara or Bandai Namco, they are very patient.
Surprisingly, Bandai Namco seems to have a soft spot for the peripherals of the "Fate" series, and although the peripherals of other works have also thought of collaborating, they have spent a lot of energy on "Fate" to deal with them.
Even so, they proposed to take away the peripheral licensing of the follow-up works under the IP of "Fate", but they were still not agreed to by Miss Uehara, and in the end only promised to give them priority.
Spending a lot of time on "Fate" made Yue Uehara think that Bandai Namco was staring at "Fate". Fortunately, in any case, the company finally finalized the licensing of the "Fate" series, including Saber, and the commercial cooperation between Bandai Namco's subsidiary in charge of toy manufacturing, printing, and daily necessities will carry out the peripheral development.
After finalizing the cooperation plan for the peripheral development of the previous works, I talked about the original purpose of coming here today, about the cooperation of idol masters and other works.
Since it was said that the cooperation of idol masters, Uehara Tomoe had already prepared for it, and took the lead: "Regarding the cooperation of idol masters, we would like to entrust your company's subsidiary to perform music distribution ......"
"Delegate?" The people of Bandai Namco were the first to hear something unusual.
"Yes, commission." Tomoe Uehara emphasized it again, or said it strongly.
The people from Bandai Namco tapped lightly on the table and thought, "What does it mean to entrust the music distribution rights not to us, but just to distribute the goods through our distribution channels?" ”
Tomoe Uehara smiled slightly, indicating acquiescence.
"Are you interested in developing your music distribution business?" The people from Bandai Namco asked curiously.
"We don't have any plans to develop music CDs, and if we have a good time working together, we also hope to be able to cooperate with you in this area for a long time." Yue Uehara played a play on words, they really didn't go to the album CD release, and even the single CD release had no plans to go.
Now it seems that Hao Ping's plan can completely skip this step.
However, there was no need to explain these things to the people of Bandai Namco, and Miss Uehara even played a word game to misunderstand them.
"If you don't have a plan for this development, why not sign a closer cooperation plan." The people of Bandai Namco persuaded bitterly.
But they know that the two idol projects of G Society, the last one, are now among the best in sales of each single or album, and the new project has a very large start, and now it is very popular, so it can be said that it is a project worth looking forward to.
If you can win a better cooperation plan, the profit for the enterprise will naturally be higher.
"We will also treat it differently from entrusted distribution and authorized production, which should be understandable." The people of Bandai Namco hinted.
If it was before, Yue Uehara would have fought for things like the distribution of rights at most, but now it's different, she won't throw away the copyright of the music.
She smiled and said, "We think we can talk about the details of this again." ”
The people of Bandai Namco understood: the details can be discussed again, that is, the general direction is no longer to be discussed.
"Can you ask why you insist on commissioning since you have no intention of becoming a music company?"
In fact, Bandai Namco still wants to win the music distribution rights of the idol master, which is why they approached G Club in the first place. Speaking of which, the reason has something to do with Lantis's side.
Since Lantis cooperated with Love Live, Lantis, who had not been recognized by the Japan Recording Association for a long time since its establishment, finally succeeded in gaining the recognition of the Japan Recording Association with Love Live and "The Third Year of Strange Thoughts" and became a member of the Recording Association. And with the fact that profits have also reached new highs, Lantis intends to gain more autonomy from the parent company.
Bandai Namco also took this into account and wanted to support another idol project to suppress other mountains within the company. And the gap between G and Lantis is also an important reason why they found G - although they don't want Lantis to go too far as a subsidiary, they don't want to lose Love Live and Idol Master, two projects that can bring a lot of profits.
So the best way, isn't it better for the parent company to cooperate with G Company in person?
"Our new project is a fan-project, and from the discussions between us and the original author, it seems that the other party is reluctant to transfer the music rights to a third party other than us."
- That's what Tomoe Uehara said.
It's an excuse that can easily be seen as an excuse, but it's also an excuse that can't be argued. Regardless of whether Bandai Namco believes it or not, as long as the name of the original author is presented, they have nothing to say.
They can't go and ask the original author one by one.
However, Tomoe Uehara still gave a certain promise: "However, we can sign a priority cooperation plan for the album, and as long as you do not violate the agreement, the CD release of the idol master will give priority to choosing to cooperate with your company's production company." ”
- Anyway, G really doesn't plan to make its own CD, and the establishment of the rules can also avoid the occurrence of Lantis's deliberate fault-finding.
At the insistence of Miss Uehara, it was basically impossible to obtain the music rights completely, and in the case of retreating, the people of Bandai Namco felt that Miss Uehara's proposal could be agreed.
Moreover, just by which series of peripheral developments has just been finalized, it is already a large amount of income.
Ten birds in the forest is better than one bird in hand, rather than making trouble with G Society for something that can't be obtained, it is better to earn money that you can make comfortably.
Harmony makes money, and it is also a business.