Chapter 302: Copyright of the Alliance

Zhang Yanping observed the opponent in front of him, and after almost a whole morning of discussion, including past memories, he still admired Ye Jiayi.

She was professional and well prepared.

I have to say that in the previous discussion, he did have some persuasion.

However, there are too many things involved in this matter and too important.

Looking at his watch, it was already eleven and a half minutes, Zhang Yanping stood up and said, "It's not too early, Ms. Ye, let's take a rest first, we also need to discuss it internally." ”

Ye Jiayi nodded slightly, with a graceful attitude.

"We've got a lounge for you, and you can try our cafeteria, which is nice. If you want to go back and take a break, you can also go back to the hotel. At three o'clock in the afternoon, let's continue to meet in this office. ”

"Okay."

After seeing Ye Jiayi and them leave, Zhang Yanping turned around and said to the rest of the family members from 'Penguin Pictures', 'Penguin Investment', and 'Fist': "Let's go to dinner first and make a little preparation for the afternoon." We'll meet in an hour. ”

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Sitting in front of the laptop, Zhang Yanping ate quickly while flipping through the information.

In his mind now, he is all weighing the words that Ye Jiayi said before.

The main contents of the proposal put forward by Wedo Entertainment are actually several:

First of all, the first point is that Wedo Entertainment will never be a pure producer, from the investment and production of the film to the sharing of the entire film and television copyright, which is the premise of Wedo Entertainment's willingness to cooperate. Otherwise, what's the point of being a maker and making that little money? Turned around and got kicked away?

Wedo Entertainment is now long past the era of being a producer for others.

Secondly, the second point is that Wedo Entertainment requires the dominance of the film in production. In other words, from the script to the design, from shooting to post-production, it is mainly based on dimensional entertainment. The two sides can cooperate, but when there is a disagreement, whether it is a matter of specific content or direction, it is ultimately based on the idea of Wedo Entertainment.

This is also what Ye Jiayi insists on very much, and she said that this is the company's general boss and the request of Fan Zhe, the general manager of the content.

Of course, cooperation is important to make content, but only one voice is needed to grasp the general direction. Fan Zhe does not want to have many different voices on the same project, which will greatly affect the final result of the work.

These are the two most important requirements of Wedo Entertainment.

Of course, since it is a cooperation, it is impossible for Wedo Entertainment to pay nothing.

First of all, in terms of investment, Wedo Entertainment guarantees that the production budget cost of "League of Legends" will not be less than one billion yuan. Secondly, after the establishment of the project, Wedo Entertainment guaranteed that when the "League of Legends" project is needed, all art resources will be put into this project with the highest priority.

Now, everyone knows how powerful the art power of Wedo Entertainment is. All of their successful works so far may have different themes and styles, but one thing is the same: the visual effect is strong.

Especially the most powerful one, that is, the two- or three-minute opening animation of "Taiwu 2", the effect of that animation, shocked the world. Not to mention China, even Blizzard Entertainment, which claims to be the most awesome CG, can't do this.

It can even be said that if the project of "League of Legends" is handed over to Dimension Entertainment, then at least in terms of production quality, there is no need to worry about it at all.

What's more, the production cost of one billion yuan is guaranteed, which is all real money.

In this regard, Zhang Yanping fully agrees with Wedo Entertainment.

Under such a premise, the core of the real contention between the two sides lies in three issues.

One of the most important issues is copyright.

Originally, there was an absolute contradiction between the two families. Penguin refuses to give copyright, and Wedo Entertainment doesn't do it without copyright, how can you talk about this?

But Ye Jiayi gave an opinion - I don't want the copyright of "League of Legends", I only take the copyright of some specific heroes.

Penguins don't do it either.

Some of the fringe heroes may be relatively good, but very representative characters such as 'Galen', 'Yasuo', 'Infinite Swordmaster', 'Ash', 'Wayne', and 'Ryze' are impossible for penguins to hand over.

But you can give it to something like 'Doomsday'. Federtic', 'Demon Joker. Heroes like Nicolas Sarco', Dimension Entertainment is also unlikely to accept.

So, Wedo Entertainment made another proposal.

The two parties signed an agreement, which stipulates that within ten years, all film and television adaptations under "League of Legends" need to be prioritized for cooperation with Wedo Entertainment. Whenever a movie is filmed, Dimension Entertainment automatically shares the film rights of the main characters appearing in the movie. This copyright sharing is limited, that is, Wedo Entertainment only enjoys film and television copyrights, as well as the profit sharing derived from film and television copyrights, and other interests have nothing to do with Wedo Entertainment.

This framework is acceptable to Zhang Yanping.

He did realize that if they didn't do copyright sharing, unless they made their own production, there would be no big film production and distribution company that would be willing to give them pure production. In the past, he also thought about using the power of 'Penguin Pictures' to make this movie himself.

However, that would be too risky.

First of all, most of the film and television projects that Penguin Pictures participated in in the past were investment and channel sharing, and they personally went to the stage, from preparation to production to distribution, and they really didn't have much experience in this area.

"League of Legends" is such an important project, they are really afraid of pounce.

What's more, this kind of project, at least hundreds of millions of dollars of investment, Penguin Pictures itself is a bit of a void - although Penguin is big, there are many places to spend money, and the investment of hundreds of millions of dollars is really going to pounce, and it hurts.

Therefore, it is inevitable to find others to cooperate.

If a small company doesn't worry about doing it for them, it's better to do it yourself; But if it is a stronger company, it does not accept pure production.

Not only Zhang Yanping, but also the upper echelons of Penguin have basically accepted a point of view: copyright sharing, this is an inevitable result.

But how to share is a key point.

The framework proposed by Wedo Entertainment, they can accept it, but to what extent is it shared?

The two sides were fighting over this in the morning.

After finishing the meal and preparing all kinds of materials, Zhang Yanping went to the conference room.

After a while, the penguins and fist people arrived one after another.