Chapter 29: Negotiation and Cooperation
And the website will also entrust professionals to help him create an exclusive digital album, and the website can advance the cost of creating the album. Netease Cloud Music, the main thing is to negotiate the exclusive authorization as soon as possible, and not let peers share the cake of Ougo. After all, his fresh style has never appeared in the entertainment industry, and this first title alone is enough to have great commercial value!
As soon as he finished the call with Wang Guoran, Ou Ge received another authorized call from QQ Music, and a young woman's voice on the other end of the phone said, "Hey, hello, is it Mr. Ou Ge?" I'm an assistant in the copyright department of QQ Music, my surname is Liu, I'm glad to be able to make this call with you, we saw a video about you playing and singing on the Internet, and found that the songs in the video are very fresh and good. So we QQ Music, I want to talk to you about copyright licensing, I don't know if you have this intention? ”
"Intentions? It just so happened that I was thinking about this just now, and NetEase Cloud had already contacted me. Ou Ge casually threw the information to the woman surnamed Liu of QQ Music, so that when the time came to negotiate the contract, he could have more chips.
"Has NetEase Cloud contacted you yet? Mr. Ogo, have you already negotiated a cooperation with him? Do you think there is time these days? It is inconvenient, let's talk about the contract issue of licensing? After all, our QQ Music is backed by Tencent Group, and it has been established much longer than NetEase Cloud. A lot of digital copyrights, NetEase Cloud bought the authorization from our QQ Music. Because of the competition of music platforms, the woman surnamed Liu said a lot in one breath.
Ou Ge actually doesn't want to focus too much on which platform to choose, but the licensing contract still has to be negotiated between the two parties. In order to increase its own bargaining chips and not let its partners despise him, Ougo made the metadata of the work into an information database, which contains information such as the name of the work, the style of the work, and the ownership of copyright.
As for the mixing and production of the song, Ou Ge had already found an acquaintance from Mr. Qi Gaojie and recorded the audio. Although the mix is not particularly well made, and many details need to be adjusted, the basic recognizability is still there.
The experience in the workplace in his previous life allowed him to prepare the materials completely in advance, so that the project team could feel that he was a professional partner who understood the industry benchmark. It's not a young man who hasn't graduated from college, does things roughly, and has a snake tail.
Roommate Jing Zhiwen, after learning that Ou Ge was going to talk about cooperation with a music platform, hurriedly said with a dead face that he wanted to follow to see the world, "Brother Ou! Why don't you take me with you tomorrow! I've been using NetEase Cloud Music products, and I can help you when I can't talk about cooperation! ”
Ogo thought seriously for a moment, and then asked rhetorically, "What are you taking with you?" I'm going to talk about cooperation, not to eat, drink and have fun with people. You even said you wanted to help me? Don't do me any favors, I'm already thankful......"
"Don't, Brother Ou! How can you bear to leave me! We were brothers in the trenches! Otherwise, you see, if you go to someone else's company to negotiate a contract, you don't necessarily have to take a taxi or a bus! That's so no identity! Anyway, you have to hire a driver and drive a good car! ”
Looking at Jing Zhiwen, who had a serious and serious face, Ou Ge nodded hesitantly, "Hmm...... Oh, where do I find such a driver? ”
Jing Zhiwen patted his chest vigorously and said with his head held high, "Don't look anywhere, it's me!" Let me tell you, my dad's business car, it's going to be windy! ”
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On Monday afternoon, Ou Ge took the USB flash drive he made and drove to the NetEase Cloud Music Shangyan Branch. Jing Zhiwen's car was robbed from his father, and there was such an unlucky son on the stall, but his father could only take the subway to work in the company.
As soon as the car drove to the door of NetEase Cloud Company, Wang Guoran, who had spoken to Ou Ge on the phone before, ran out to greet him with a smile, "May I ask if it's Mr. Ou Ge?" If you enter the door and turn left, there is a parking space over there. ”
"Oh, okay, thanks!" After Ou Ge politely answered, Jing Zhiwen drove the car to the parking space on the left side of the park, and then ran out of the car and took the initiative to help Ou Ge open the car door, "Mr. Ou, let me help you hold it." ”
Looking at Jing Zhiwen's lame acting skills, Ou Ge got out of the car with a smile and said, "You can be normal, don't be Mr. Ou, don't be Mr. Ou, people know that I am a student in the theater, okay?" ”
"Huh? Oh, I see, Mr. Ou. Jing Zhiwen hurriedly closed the car door for Ou Ge, and then the two of them followed Wang Guoran into NetEase Cloud Company.
In the conference room, three people, including the director of the copyright department of NetEase Cloud and the director of the music business department, received Ou Ge's negotiation.
"Hello Mr. Ou, I am the director of NetEase Cloud Music Business Department, my name is Li Lesheng, I am glad that you can take the time to come to our company to negotiate cooperation in digital copyright. Did you bring the master tape or audio of the song? Before we talk about specific cooperation, we may need to take it to the business unit for another evaluation. Li Lesheng is in his 40s, but he looks relatively young, not much like Wang Guoran, who received them.
The first part of the music career is mainly responsible for the music review of musicians. In particular, independent musicians like Ougo who are responsible for reviewing do not have a record company as a background, and there are not many well-known tracks. At present, they only learned that Ou Ge sang the work "Nanshan Nan", and the reason why it was grandly received was mainly because the song style is a fresh style that is not available in the entertainment industry, which is very commercially valuable.
Ou Ge took out the USB flash drive from his bag, and then put it in front of the conference table, "Hello, Mr. Li, I brought the song metadata, and it is all in the USB flash drive." ”
Li Lesheng only knew the song "Nanshan Nan", so he didn't hear what Ou Ge meant by the phrase "It's all in the USB flash drive" just now.
"Oh, good." He casually picked up the USB flash drive, and then through the music equipment in the conference room, he wanted to play the audition audio directly.
"Oh, by the way, Mr. Ou, because we were in a hurry to contact before, we forgot to ask you a little bit, in addition to the song "Nanshan Nan", do you have any other personal creations with a similar style?"
"Yes, it's all on a USB stick." Ogo sat down at the conference table and said truthfully.
"Huh? What are you talking about? It's all in a USB stick? Li Lesheng hadn't reacted yet.