Chapter 940 Copyright
"You want the copyright to the name PHS?" Ye Yonglie raised his hand and pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, looking puzzled.
"Yes." Song Chaoyuan nodded, then took out a business card from his pocket and handed it over.
Ye Yonglie took the business card and glanced at it, and found that it was written on the heads of Shenghua Capital and Shenghua Group, and he was a little puzzled for a while.
"Mr. Song, aren't you ......?"
"Oh, the advertising company is a subsidiary of Shenghua Group, the film and television company is our Shenghua cooperative company, and the main person in charge is my wife and a few friends. Shenghua Capital is the main controlling shareholder of Shenghua Group, a listed company in Heung Kong, which owns Shenghua Communications, Shenghua Electrical Appliances, Shenghua Computers, Shenghua Real Estate, Shenghua Trading, Site (China) Food Company, Jinling Nandu Food Company and other ......enterprises in China."
Song Chaolie gave Mr. Ye Yonglie a general introduction to Shenghua, and after listening to Song Yuanchao's introduction, Ye Yonglie suddenly realized.
"Oh, it's that Shenghua, I've heard that last month, my child gave me a VCD that is Shenghua brand, is it your company's product?"
[In view of the general environment,
"Yes, that's the brand of our Shenghua subsidiary."
Ye Yonglie smiled, he now understood Song Yuanchao's intention, and asked Song Yuanchao if he wanted the name PHS as the name of his products.
Song Chaoyuan nodded yes, and told Mr. Ye Yonglie that he came to him today to talk about the copyright of PHS, and hoped that Mr. Ye Yonglie could sell the copyright of PHS to them Shenghua, of course, Shenghua was willing to pay for it, and as for how much, Mr. Ye Yonglie was asked to make a price.
After listening to Song Yuanchao's words, Ye Yonglie thought for a while, and after a moment he smiled and said, "You were introduced by Lao Cao, and I have also heard of your company, your advertising company and film and television company have done well in recent years, and the cooperation with the studio has also benefited the studio a lot. I still work in the studio, and I'm not an outsider, so it's not a big deal, it's just the name of a character, you can just use it, and what kind of money are you talking about."
"That's not going to work!" Song Chaoyuan hurriedly shook his head: "Mr. Ye, I appreciate your kindness, but it is really inappropriate to take your copyright for nothing, and as the copyright owner, it is also disrespectful to you to let our company use it if you don't spend a penny."
"Where is there such a statement?" Ye Yonglie waved his hand and smiled: "If you want to adapt the work, I have to talk to you about copyright transfer without you mentioning, but now you just need a PHS name, what is this?" Besides, at present, there are no restrictions on the use of character names in China, just like ordinary names, for example, my name is Ye Yonglie and your name is Song Yuanchao, are not allowed to call these two names as well? Isn't that too overbearing?"
Speaking of this, Mr. Ye Yonglie laughed out loud, and seemed to be indifferent to this matter. However, what he said is not unreasonable, after all, the current laws and regulations on copyright are not perfect, especially the copyright of personal names. In addition, Mr. Ye Yonglie is also a literati, so he naturally has the nobility and pride of a literati, and he doesn't pay attention to this kind of trivial matter at all.
However, Mr. Ye Yonglie is so generous, but Song Chaoyuan cannot directly accept the other party's kindness, after all, it is not appropriate to use other people's copyrights for nothing, whether from a personal or commercial point of view. What's more, Song Chaoyuan also considered the possible future disputes over the copyright of white use, and for long-term consideration, Song Yuanchao still proposed to use money to buy the copyright of PHS.
Seeing that Song Yuanchao insisted on buying the copyright, Mr. Ye Yonglie thought about opening a price to Song Yuanchao, and after hearing Mr. Ye Yonglie's offer, Song Chaoyuan suddenly cried and laughed.
$300 copyright transfer fee? This price is not high, it is simply too low. What's the difference between this and giving it away for nothing? Although Song Chaoyuan is a businessman, he is different from ordinary businessmen, if it were other businessmen, I am afraid that when he heard that Mr. Ye Yonglie gave him the copyright, he would directly agree, at most it means some kind words of thanks and so on.
But Song Dynasty Aid won't do that, Ye Yong
Mr. Lie is a scholar and elder he respects, and although Mr. Ye Yonglie is very famous, his living conditions over the years are not as good as his reputation, on the contrary, Mr. Ye Yonglie, who has a dead salary, actually does not have much savings.
It stands to reason that authors like him should not be short of money, and the annual income of some well-known authors in later generations can reach a very high level, and Mr. Ye Yonglie became famous very early, as early as 1961, Mr. Ye Yonglie served as the main author and editor of "100,000 Whys" sold well in China, this set of popular science books was printed for the first time more than 5 million copies, and then reprinted one after another, and by 2014, there were a total of 6 editions, with a total circulation of more than 100 million copies.
Just this set of popular science books, if abroad or more than ten years later, Mr. Ye Yonglie can easily become a billionaire with copyright sharing. What's more, Mr. Ye Yonglie's works are not only "100,000 Whys", he also has many other popular science, science fiction, biographies, and other works, he is a very prolific excellent writer, and he is also a well-known writer in China.
It is a pity that Mr. Ye Yonglie's peak writing period has passed, and although he is now over 50 years old, he has not put down the pen in his hand, but his energy is no longer as good as when he was young, and the output and influence of his works over the years have gradually deteriorated as before.
In the past, domestic writers did not have copyright, and only got the manuscript fee. The copyright of the work is in the hands of the publishing house or literary society, and even if the work is republished, it is still calculated according to the manuscript fee.
This situation has only just changed a few years ago, speaking of the change of manuscript fees and copyrights are inseparable from one person, this person is Wang Shuo, who is familiar with Song Chaoyuan, it is precisely because of Wang Shuo's strong demand that the copyright that has been canceled for a long time has been restored again, so that the writer's income has changed from the previous manuscript fee to the copyright system, so that future writers can benefit a lot from copyright.
Therefore, Mr. Ye Yonglie has always lived on manuscript fees and salary income in the unit, although these incomes are much better than those of ordinary people, but they are far from those of writers after the restoration of the copyright system. In addition, as a writer, his usual expenses are not small, just looking at the books in Mr. Ye Yonglie's room, you can see that he spends most of his income in this area, otherwise he would not have lived in the small house allocated by the unit before, until the first two years he barely paid for himself to replace the current house.
"Mr. Ye's $300 is really inappropriate." Song Chaoyuan shook his head and refused, and without waiting for Mr. Ye Yonglie to speak, he said bluntly: "In this way, about the copyright of the name PHS, I bought it at a price of 50,000 yuan on behalf of the company, what do you think?"
"$50,000? This...... That's not going to work, it's a lot of money!" Mr. Ye Yonglie didn't want to refuse directly, just a name, where do you need so much money? Not to mention buying a name, even if it was adapted by Huhai Film Studio a few years ago, it was only more than 200 yuan in copyright fees.
Although this is a thing of the past, even now, the copyright use of a work is only a thousand yuan at best, and Mr. Ye Yonglie, as a writer, knows very well. What's more, what Song Yuanchao wants is not a work, it's just the name of a character in the work, where is it worth so much money?
For a while, Mr. Ye Yonglie shook his head into a rattle, said that he would not agree to anything, and insisted on selling it at the previous price of 300 yuan.
It's funny to say, people bargain to get cheaper, but the two of them bargain because they want each other to follow their own ideas, one wants to sell at a low price, and the other wants to buy at a high price, and no one can convince anyone after talking for a long time.
In the end, Song Chaoyuan was also a little helpless, looking at the stubborn Mr. Ye Yonglie who had no choice, and even Mr. Ye Yonglie said that if Song Yuanchao insisted on buying the copyright at such a high price, he would not sell it, which really made Song Chaoyuan cry and laugh.
Song Yuanchao, who had no choice, was moved and didn't know how to solve this problem for a while, he thought about it and said to Mr. Ye Yonglie, "Mr. Ye, let me make a suggestion, do you think it's okay?"
"Don't talk to me about 50,000 yuan, don't say 50,000, it's 10,000, and this copyright is not worth it at all. Xiao Song, I know you are kind, but you can't do this
Yes, if you insist any longer, I'm going to send you off!" Mr. Ye Yonglie was very serious about the Song Dynasty.
Song Chaoyuan nodded yes again and again, and said, "That's it, Mr. Ye, I understand your thoughts, in this case, can we operate according to the current copyright benefit ratio?"
"What percentage of copyright benefits?"
"Yes!" Song Chaoyuan explained: "As a scholar, you should know that the current published works are different from before, and the remuneration and manuscript fees for published works in the past are now under the copyright system, which means that according to the proportion of copyright benefits, the author will make a part of the copyright income according to the number of publications, which you should know better than me, right?"
"Well, I know that, it's an improvement, and it's a good thing for the author." Mr. Ye Yonglie nodded and said.
Song continued, "Now that the current industry rules have changed, I think our cooperation can also be carried out according to this model."
"Tell me about it." Hearing this, Mr. Ye Yonglie became a little interested.
Song Chaoyuan told Mr. Ye Yonglie that at present, everyone has different views on the amount of copyright transfer, which is the main disagreement, in this case, this problem will be solved according to the income of publishing copyright, that is to say, Mr. Ye Yonglie authorized the copyright of PHS to Sheng Hua, and Shenghua gave Mr. Ye Yonglie a certain copyright fee while using the copyright of PHS, and this fee is divided into two parts as an agreement, one part is the copyright fee for the use of the company's name, and this copyright fee is determined according to the 300 yuan authorization proposed by Mr. Ye Yonglie just now.
The other part is the copyright royalty of future products, which is calculated according to the number of products produced and sold.