Chapter 2 The Hereafter of the Millennium
Peking University, football stadium, crowds on the sidelines.
The scorching sun of midsummer treats everyone on the earth equally, and the students of Peking University and non-Peking University who come and go look at the football field from time to time, and a figure that stands out from the crowd attracts everyone's attention.
The man in the same red and white jersey of Arsenal did a Marseille maneuver in a chic manner, and then connected the crotch passing people and the tail flicking of the bull to five people, and finally pierced the door of the opponent's goalkeeper -
"Beautiful!"
"again?!"
"This Arsenal No. 22 is so fierce?"
"I don't watch the ball, so I take the liberty of asking, who is this person?"
"I don't watch the ball either, so I take the liberty of asking, is this playing football or table tennis?"
Seeing that the scoreboard on the sidelines had become 13:0, some unknown bystanders looked at the man kneeling on the green in celebration and expressed doubts from the bottom of their hearts.
"Dude's first time coming to Peking University?"
In the crowd of onlookers on the sidelines, the Peking University locals looked at the unfamiliar faces around them who were puzzled, and explained: "That is Zhou Yi, a celebrity from the law department. ”
"Oh, it turns out that he is Zhou Yi."
When the junior brother who came to see the beauty from the technical college next door heard this, his face suddenly showed a sudden look.
Zhou Yi, a junior student of the Law Department of Peking University, quickly became famous in the entire Peking University student circle for his extremely high appearance and chic style as soon as he entered the school.
Everyone knows that after Sa Beining, the Law Department of Peking University has recruited another sassy guy, and the degree of this bag is far better than Sa Beining, who has now entered the CCTV work.
Moreover, unlike Sa Beining's enthusiasm for the "right path", this guy named Zhou Yi is quite wild and bold.
I sang at a party, danced in a bar;
He dares to tease the sister that others dare not tease, and he dares to fight when others dare not fight;
has done work-study, and it is also rumored that a talent scout took a fancy to his appearance and wanted to sign him for his debut, and even heard that Gao Xiaosong, who came out of Wudaokou next door, wanted to sign him to go to the wheat field to sing for him.
Study well, grow tall, and have a handsome face. Love sports, strong body, don't speak, and sing well.
The chic and active style highlights the illusion in the heart of a young man who has just entered the new era, and the beautiful sisters are in a hurry to send off the autumn waves.
And whenever he sees the beautiful sisters who boldly cheer for him on the side of the court, the students of Peking University dental majors can always usher in a craze for filling the back molars.
"Put some water, Zhou Yi, all kicked us 13, our Chinese department doesn't want face."
On the football field, the man in the red jersey who came to the middle line again with the ball on the kick-off had a bitter face, and complained to the man standing opposite him, and the back of the bright red jersey was impressively marked with the five big characters "Peking University Chinese Department".
"I let it go, I'm sure I'll let it go."
On the opposite side of the man in the red jersey, Zhou Yi, who is 1.83 meters tall, raised his hand to brush the bangs wet with sweat in front of his forehead, panting with one hand on his waist, and a few smiles were stacked on his well-defined handsome face: "I only scored 3, and the rest were scored by my teammates." ”
"......" The senior from the Chinese department couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Although I know that he did release water, the more I listen to this, the more unpleasant it becomes.
You score 3 in one, and one of the other ten teammates scores one, right, what rain and dew are stained with Dafa, and the goalkeeper can come up and kick a penalty kick and score one, which is outrageous.
"Okay, okay, hurry up and kick quickly, what breaks the game......"
Due to the fact that the two teams together could not make up three substitutes, under the nagging of the Chinese department, the law team kept the score of 13:0 to the end.
Zhou Yi, who finished the game, sweated profusely, took off his jersey casually, and came to the sidelines laughing with his classmates with his naked muscular upper body.
"Zhou Yi, Zhou Yi, someone just called you, saying that someone is looking for you outside the school gate."
With a twisted Arsenal jersey on his shoulder, Zhou Yi, who heard the words, drank water, and turned his head in surprise to look at the classmates who came to inform him: "Looking for me?" Who is it? ”
He has a football game at school today, and everyone who knows him knows it, so why not just come to the football field if you want to find him?
"What kind of Warner person is it, there are really scouts poaching you to be a star, Zhou Yi?"
As soon as he heard the word "Warner", Zhou Yi's eyebrows subconsciously raised upward.
How is Warner again?
The old boy won't want to fool around again, will he?
As a time-traveler reborn from the afterlife, the name Warner Music is undoubtedly not unfamiliar to him. Warner Music at its peak was the undoubted giant, but at the moment......
Warner's turnaround ace Sun Yanzi has not yet debuted, and the famous Tianhou Temple has not yet been formed, and the domestic market share is a pitiful scrap compared to several other giants, all supported by Aaron Kwok and Sammi Cheng, who have been declining year by year.
Although Zhou Yi was confident that with the highly clear memories in his mind that should be due to rebirth, he could leave a reputation as "one of the gods of the millennial music scene" in the Chinese music scene by plagiarizing the classic repertoire of future kings and queens, but considering the contract given by Warner, he still refused.
Also refused twice.
He didn't want to get mixed up until the end, and if he wanted to get back the copyright of these songs, he had to fight endless lawsuits one after another.
As a person of later generations, he knows very well how profitable those popular song copyrights can be in the distant future. Just look at Jay Chou's group of people, you can make a lot of money just by relying on song licensing.
Anyway, there is no shortage of channels to make money in his memory, and there is no small dream of 100 million yuan.
Two years later, in the 02 World Cup, Konishihachi's shady results in shocking the jaw of world football with a black whistle were enough for him to make a lot of money effortlessly.
At that time, he will be rich and young, and he will be able to retire his parents twenty years early.
To live a new life, it is okay to have money to live a chic life, and to make your family live a rich life without being so tired.
He's not the business stuff anyway.
Being able to enter the entertainment industry and use the memories in your head to make money is an unexpected joy, and it is nothing if you can't.
It's really not possible to wait for the era of CRBT to come in the future, and make a fortune with songs such as "Autumn Doesn't Come Back", "Damn Tender", and "Mice Love Rice".
Anyway, if you want to sell the copyright, he doesn't feel distressed at all when he sells the copyright of these songs.
It's a very strange psychology.
Zhou Yi once analyzed himself idlely, and came up with an accurate answer to his filthy psychology: double standard.
He felt that he probably tacitly regarded the later songs in his memory that had not yet appeared as his own, of course, this specifically referred to those golden songs that were enough to turn into the steps of the gods.
Let him "sell" the copyright of these golden songs, he will be very distressed.
But if the original author created it and signed a contract with a music company to give up the copyright in order to make his debut, he would not have this kind of psychology at all, but would sigh while listening to the song that the singer is really awesome and sings so well.
The reason for this is simply because he knows the value of the copyright of these songs.
If he came to "sell" it himself, he would instinctively have the illusion that he was cutting meat for himself.
If the original author writes it out to "sell", then it's okay, anyway, it's definitely not him who will lose in the future,
Double standard, it's normal.
Zhou Yi happily accepted his shortcomings and did not intend to change them.
He's not a saint.
Dislike the double standards of others, understand your own double standards, and become the double standards in the mouths of others.
After graduating from college in my last life, I was beaten by the society in the law firm for four years, but I never thought that I would be reborn after sleeping because I was too tired from working overtime.
It is precisely because of this that in the nineteen years since the rebirth, Zhou Yi has become familiar with the so-called double standard.
He's just a layman, not so ambitious.
There must be a true saint worthy of admiration in this world, but it is definitely not him, at most he has some bottom line within his ability.
After taking out his Nokia 3210 from his backpack and notifying the Warner people waiting outside the school gate, Zhou Yi went back first to take a simple shower, changed into a white T-shirt and navy blue jeans, and hurried to the school gate with whiteboard shoes.
Walking to the school gate, it was still the familiar position of the first two times, and it was still the familiar face of the first two times-
The representative from Warner was in his thirties, wearing a suit and leather shoes, combing his big back and carrying a briefcase, standing outside to attract attention.
"Brother Qian, I'm sorry, I just played a football game at school."
I plan to refuse in my heart, I plan to refuse, and Zhou Yi still has the politeness that should be, so I apologized first and explained the reason, and many people are not to blame.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's my problem. Oh yes, Ayi, the suggestion you made last time, if it's convenient, let's continue to talk? ”
The man with a Hong Kong accent sent Zhou Yi a piece of news that he didn't expect.
Ten minutes later.
In a café that is now considered luxurious, Warner's Brother Qian brought sincerity: "That's right, Ah Yi, the company has decided to relax the restrictions on the copyright of your songs......"
What's that?
Is Warner so brave?
At first glance, Zhou Yi was a little surprised when he heard the news.
He had heard that Warner had waited for two years to sign Sun Yanzi, and immediately created a debut album tailored for her after signing.
This treatment is incredible throughout the early millennium.
When Chou Dong was young, he spent all his time in the company for the sake of filming, eating, drinking, and sleeping, and he worked hard to write songs just to get a chance. Compared with the two, there is a little bit of tragedy.
Now I want to experience Sun Yanzi's treatment?
No, although Sun Yanzi was nicknamed "Warner's daughter" by the outside world when she first signed Warner, at least all the copyright of the song before 03 was taken away, right?
Well, that's not right, there don't seem to be many songs written by Sun Yanzi himself at that time.
Letting go of the surprise in his heart, Zhou Yi took the draft of the new contract sample and looked at it-
Compared with the previous two versions, it is much different, but some new copyright protection clauses have been added, one of which he looks a little familiar, and a simple translation is: The copyright of all songs created by Zhou Yi himself belongs to Zhou Yi himself.
Of course, only to his own creations.
Zhou Yi smiled when he saw this.
He's familiar with this thing.
In his previous life, it was rumored that the reason why Jay Chou was able to get back the copyright of the songs in his first 7 albums after he became enemies with Wu Zongxian was because when he signed Wu Zongxian's Alpha Company, Jay Chou's father strongly advocated that the copyright protection clause in the contract take effect.
And the meaning of the copyright protection clause is very different from that of Warner's version.
Unexpectedly, his first two refusals without the slightest hesitation made Warner, who was now at an absolute low point for several years, give in.
It seems that the songs that have been paid for myself in college in the past few years have not been sung in vain.
However, this is probably the biggest concession that a singer-songwriter can strive for.
After all, for non-singer-songwriters, the songs you sing are all taken back by the company for you, and there is nothing wrong with you only having the right to sing, unless you spend your own money to buy the copyright of the song.