In the next few years, the box office failures of movies produced by Zhonghua Yi have made Huayi's stock price fall all the way, and there are two good box office films in the middle, one is "Predecessor 3: Goodbye Ex" starring Zheng Kai and Han Geng, and the other is "Eight Hundred".

"Predecessor 3" has been produced, and Yu Wenwen had already thought about making a theme song for this movie when he saw the script of this movie, which was the later popular "Decent". Zheng Wentong was ready to use "The Richest Man in Xihong City" to snipe at the box office of "Predecessor 3", so when Principal Wang invited Zheng Wentong to go to the bar to be happy, he agreed for the first time and caught Principal Wang off guard.

The theme song "Calories" recorded by Rocket 101 Girl has also been produced, and Yang Chaoyue still sang the magical "Burn My Calories". If "The Richest Man in Xihong City" and "Predecessor 3" are in the same schedule, Shen Teng and Ma Li's appeal is obviously much stronger than Han Geng and Zheng Kai.

Zheng Wentong did not express his intention to Zheng Kai, nor did he inquire about the release schedule of "Predecessor 3", because the release of movies is sometimes raised and temporarily withdrawn, and the film producer may release the movie in advance or delay, Zheng Wentong went to inquire about the information of "Predecessor 3", which may make Huayi vigilant.

Zheng Kai originally thought that Zheng Wentong was going to pony galloping, but he was still preparing words to refuse, after all, Huayi had spent 700 million yuan to acquire a film and television company held by Zheng Kai personally, and he had no way to leave Huayi and start anew.

Because Zheng Wentong doesn't drink, Yu Shuxin and Wang Damao, who came to the bar together, don't drink much, so the three of them left early, and Principal Wang stayed in the bar to continue playing. As a result, Principal Wang and the Ace of Spades were on the hot search of Weitoutiao and Weibo at the same time.

Wang Damao's single "A of Spades" and MV are all launched at the same time in the major music applications of the music group, and various Internet celebrities in Weiyin have begun to cover Wang Damao's A of spades, and the Internet celebrities of Kuaishou and Jiaoyin have also begun to cover Wang Damao's song, and as a result, the well-known head anchors received a lawyer's letter from the music group, making it clear that without commercial permission, anchors on other platforms are prohibited from covering Wang Damao's songs or using Wang Damao's background music.

The two major platforms of ByteDance and Kuaishou know in their hearts that this is Zheng Wentong's beginning to use music copyrights to card the necks of Kuaishou and Jiaoyin.

Byte is very worried, Kuaishou has Penguin behind it, and it has the authorization of Penguin Music, in case Penguin Music and the music group join forces to block Byte's short video application Jiaoyin, then Jiaoyin's users will be very passive.

Ordinary users are okay, and it is impossible for the music group to sue an ordinary user for singing songs in the live broadcast room, in case the head anchor is sued, then the head anchors of bytes would rather choose to go to Weiyin or Penguin Weishi or Kuaishou in order to avoid copyright disputes in music, games or film and television.

Zhang Yiming also feels tricky now, the volume of bytes is actually larger than that of Microgram Xinke, regardless of the number of employees, the company's revenue is more than Microgram Xinke by a step, as a result, because Zheng Wentong integrated music and controlled the largest film and television company in China, Pony Galloping, resulting in ByteDance's copyright layout in music and film and television is far behind the slope system, resulting in a small Microke Xinke can achieve dimensionality reduction against the large ByteDance.

Bai Xiaolu asked Zheng Wentong, "How can you be sure that Penguin Music will definitely follow the music to ban the Jiaoyin app, and prohibit the head anchors of the Jiaoyin app from using music or the background music of Penguin Music?" ”

"Penguin Microvision has been tepid and unable to do it, Kuaishou's users are about to be overtaken by Weiyin, and the gap between the number of users and the number of daily active users of Jiaoyin and Kuaishou APP is also rapidly narrowing."

"If I were Brother Pony, and when the music was willing to be the first bird to ask for music copyright fees, then Penguin Music would definitely follow the trend and vice versa. If Byte is willing to pay this money, then Music and Penguin Music will have an extra revenue every year, which is also a good thing for the music group that is about to go public. ”

"If Byte is not willing to pay this fee, then it will have to endure the anchors to switch to other platforms. Although Weke has recruited a lot of talents in computer and mathematics, and the Genius Youth Program is also focusing on recruiting these people, the talent pool of Weke is still far from being as good as that of Bytes, and there is still a big gap between us and Bytes in terms of algorithm recommendation. ”

According to our estimates, after the Spring Festival next year, the number of users in the two regions of TikTok in Europe and Southeast Asia markets can both exceed 100 million, and it is not easy for bytes of zynn to catch up directly." Zheng Wentong explained to Bai Xiaolu.

"It's like the price of a video site's members increases, and if one platform increases its price, the other three platforms will also increase its price at the same time, it feels like a negotiated agreement, right?" Bai Xiaolu asked Zheng Wentong.

"At present, music and penguin music have covered 96% of the music rights in the mainland market, and even if Byte buys the remaining 4% of the music copyrights, it will not help. In fact, music and penguin music have constituted a de facto monopoly, and the two companies do not mean that they are not monopolies, just like three barrels of oil. Zheng Wentong explained.

In fact, in addition to music copyrights, Pony Galloping and White Deer Studio also simultaneously asked Jiaoyin and Watermelon Video to clean up many popular TV series in short video applications, including "In the Name of the People", "Ordinary Glory", "Chasing the Murderer in the White Night", "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost", "Ode to Joy" and so on.

The copyright battle between ByteDance and Weike Xinke is becoming more and more intense, Zhang Yiming rarely accepted an interview with the official media, "In fact, short video applications also follow the safe harbor principle of the Internet industry, and the film and television copyright owners or music copyright owners ask us to clean up and remove the videos, and we have done synchronous processing." ”

"But what puzzles us is that users have reported to us that if he posts the same video on Weiyin, he will not be judged as a violation, and if he posts a video on Jiaoyin, he will be judged as a violation."

"It's like two game companies making the same mobile game, one has passed the review, the other has not, and the game review department still wears the same pants as the game company that has passed, and it is difficult for you to believe in the fairness of the game review department."

"The reason why the Internet industry can flourish in our country is that the state has strongly supported and invested a lot of money in the 4G industry every year to popularize the 4G network, so the number of mobile Internet users in China is growing by 100 million every year."

"The second is the free and sharing spirit of the Internet industry, and I really hope that music and Penguin Music can fairly, justly, and openly present the reasons for banning horn music users from using their music, but unfortunately, many of their bans have no reason. Anti-monopoly and innovation protection are very serious social and public issues, and this topic is more worthy of discussion and research by all parties. Zhang Yiming said.

When Zhang Yiming hinted that Zheng Wentong was suppressing bytes through a monopoly position, Zheng Wentong also publicly responded to Zhang Yiming's remarks.

"Our film and television company invests huge sums of money in the production of film and television dramas every year, such as the production budget of "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost" is as high as 300 million."

"When this drama was broadcast, short video users began to upload content that only VIP members can see, and they did not edit one of the clips, but divided each episode of the TV series into different short videos and uploaded them, so that other short video users could enjoy the show for free, which brought great economic losses to our TV series producers."

"We didn't just ask Jiaoyin to remove relevant video content, Weiyin also carried out self-correction and self-inspection, and asked users to remove relevant video content as soon as possible."

"We notified Jiaoyin and asked them to contact users to clean up the relevant video content in time, but Jiaoyin did not cooperate, but continued to default to the user to continue to upload relevant video content. As a short video platform, if Jiaoyin is still unwilling to cooperate, then we can only claim and protect our rights and interests through legal means. Zheng Wentong said.

"As for the use of 15 seconds or 60 seconds of music when uploading short videos by ordinary users of Jiaoyin, it will not constitute music infringement, and music will not ask ordinary users of Jiaoyin for music copyright fees, please rest assured." Zheng Wentong said.

Netizens commented that Micro Ke Xinke began to prepare to overtake ByteDance in August 17, which is a war between capitals!