Chapter 452: Buy songs with a lot of money

"Is the copyright situation in China really bad?" Liu Ruyan asked Chen Mingluo.

"It's not a little bad, it can be said to be extremely bad." Chen Mingluo replied clearly.

The many disadvantages in the domestic copyright system are not new. They have existed in the music circle for many years. Many singers are incredible, but no one cares about the songwriters. A singer can get a reward of 300,000 yuan if he participates in a performance and sings a song. He can participate in forty consecutive performances and sings this song repeatedly, and can get a performance fee of 1,200,000 yuan, but the songwriter has no penny.

Every year, songwriters raise questions about copyright implementation, and list successful measures such as developed countries for songwriters' rights protection and song copyright protection. However, it is useless to mention it, and no one will care about such things.

"However, this kind of thing seems to be difficult to settle, right?" Liu Ruyan thought about this matter in her mind, and felt that although copyright protection is just a matter of one sentence, it would probably be more difficult to implement it.

After all, if you are singing, you can get the appearance fee for a singer to sing, but how can you share the lyricist's share? I guess no one wants to vomit after eating the food in your stomach, right?

"In foreign countries, the copyright fee is generally calculated to the original author according to the minute. The European countries are about 160 per minute, and the highest is Japan, at 960 per minute. However, there is no clear statement on our side yet. It is said that some people are negotiating, but the result of the negotiation is 30 cents per minute." Chen Mingluo replied.

"No, how much difference is that from not having this income?" Liu Ruyan and Murong both felt that it was a bit too much when they heard this.

If you sing a singer, you will earn hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even if you have a song for five minutes, it will only cost 800 yuan according to European standards. Can you mention the difference between hundreds of thousands and 800 yuan?

"What we are talking about in China is to be able to match the standards of Hong Kong and Taiwan, 60 per minute, but it is difficult to implement them." Chen Mingluo said, "This is not only a matter of interest, but also a mentality problem. The domestic market is very large. If this standard can be implemented, many songwriters may become billionaires all at once. Many people will of course become psychologically unbalanced when they read it. To put it bluntly, they are envy, jealousy and hatred at work."

"It seems that this is a system problem and it is difficult to solve." Murong interrupted.

"It cannot be blamed entirely on the system. It is actually a matter of consciousness." Chen Mingluo replied, "It is required that the government strengthen supervision, not only for money, but for the purpose of having this copyright awareness. For example, some Japanese bands come to China to hold concerts, and they sing some Chinese songs. They didn't know who wrote some songs before. After singing, domestic songwriters would pay for them. As a result, they listed a list of them, how many shows they sang and how much they earned, and how much they should pay the songwriters, clearly. So, the most important thing here is a copyright awareness issue."

For lyricists of the same level, the copyright income difference between Hong Kong, Taiwan and the mainland is dozens or even hundreds of times.

Just like all the songs written by the famous Taiwanese musician Luo Dayou, you can get about HK$4 million in copyright income a year. However, if you create a top mainland songwriter like Chen Xiaoqi, who has excellent quantity and quality, the average annual copyright income is only 20,000.

Since the subsequent income of song copyright in publishing, commercial performances, paid playback, etc. cannot be guaranteed, the main income of domestic songwriters can only be bought out in one time, that is, the royalties provided when the company or singer personally invites to create. In particular, the subsequent copyright income that should be linked to the number of cartridges and CDs is often not known, but can only be paid in one lump sum in a way that is linked to the number of version numbers. Once a song is republished, not only does it not require the original author's consent, but the remuneration paid by the publisher to the songwriter in one lump sum is usually only a few hundred yuan.

At present, there are many copyright disputes in China, but for various reasons, many people are unwilling to spend time and energy on it, causing infringers to intentionally or unintentionally ignore laws and regulations.

Regarding the current situation of lyricists and songwriters, the main reason for these problems is that domestic units have no sense of payment when using these songs.

In fact, according to the contract situation, domestic record companies will have a fixed share of each album author, ranging from about 5 to 8, which is actually higher than in Japan. It sounds good and the actual returns are not high. The main reason is that the entire industry is not good. During the collection process, domestic units have too little awareness of payment. The contract is well written and no one gives you money. How do you share it with the author?

"Working labor will not get the rewards it deserves, there is no perfect copyright system, no perfect intellectual property protection, and no confidence given to producers or authors. In the long run, not only this industry, but also many industries related to copyright will shrink more and more, and there will be fewer and fewer capable people, and eventually disappear." Chen Mingluo said.

From the 1990s to the present, the music styles of the domestic pop music scene have become increasingly diversified. Unfortunately, the lyrics creation of the mainland pop music scene in recent years have been relatively quiet. There is no leading lyricist. After the death of the older generation of famous lyricists, the phenomenon of inconvenience in the youth has become more and more prominent.

In recent years, newcomers in the mainland music scene have been surging, and every year, all major and small talent shows will send fresh blood to the music scene. Logically speaking, excellent mainland songwriters should have emerged, but this is not the case.

The reason for this embarrassing situation is that the copyright of the lyricist author has been repeatedly infringed, and the labor he has paid cannot be rewarded. This to a considerable extent restricts the creative passion of the lyricist authors. The public's copyright awareness needs to be strengthened and the copyright system needs to be improved. If a large number of professional musicians who rely on copyright fees can exist in the mainland, the lyricist will be a symbol of the prosperity of the mainland's pop music creation.

The reality is that the mainland is not very copyright awareness. Generally, they only get a royalty fee after creating a song. How many musicians can really live on copyright fees? In Hong Kong and Taiwan, if they can create a red song, it can bring hundreds of thousands of benefits. The songwriters naturally have the motivation to create creative works and can also create high-quality products. In contrast, in China, there are only some inappropriate songs, or the main melody songs that are made by the imperial system that basically no one will listen carefully.

In comparison, Hong Kong's singing industry is much more developed. Not only is there a large number of prolific songwriters, but new songs are also emerging one after another. In addition, it is a sound intellectual property protection system, including the protection of music copyrights.

For example, the famous lyricist Lin Xi has written more than 4,000 lyrics, and earns over 10 million yuan every year by paying royalties.

Nowadays, when the domestic entertainment industry has gradually become a system, most screenwriters and songwriters are retail investors and cannot sit down with strong entertainment capital to negotiate, so naturally they cannot get the right protection of their rights.

"The royalty system has never been well promoted in the domestic entertainment industry. The opaque box office, ratings and record distribution volume make it impossible for authors in a weak position to recover their due allocation quota." Chen Mingluo said, "In order to allow songwriters to obtain more due rights, regulate copyright, and inject more vitality into domestic music, in addition to continuously improving the copyright awareness of authors and ordinary people, the most fundamental thing is to start with strengthening the system construction. Promoting the legal and paid use of copyright works has become a general trend, but due to the current domestic relevant regulations and standards, there is still a lack of clear definition of the issues of how much to collect and how to collect, and music writers will inevitably face a lot of embarrassment in protecting their rights, so this market is still not possible."

The three of them ate and chatted, and the time has been delayed a little longer.

At this time, Murong's eyes looked at Chen Mingluo were naturally a little different, but from his understanding of things in the entertainment industry and his thorough view, it is enough to prove that this young man who looks less than 20 years old is indeed extraordinary.

While he was speaking, Chen Mingluo's cell phone rang. He answered it and said, "Oh, Secretary Sang, I was wrong. Vice Premier Sang, hello, hello, call here now, what instructions do you have?"

Sang Mingda called, but there was nothing wrong. He just asked about the situation inside the folder. As the vice premier, although his work schedule was full, it was relatively easy. Most of his time was spent on going to the grassroots inspection.

After chatting with Sang Mingda for a while, Chen Mingluo put down the phone and saw that Liu Ruyan and Murong had grown their mouths and looked at him in disbelief, as if they had seen an alien monster.

"Vice Prime Minister Sang?" Liu Ruyan asked in a low voice.

"Well, we are friends who are old and like to chat when we are free." Chen Mingluo nodded and replied.

"No wonder, you have such a good relationship with Yang Ji'er, and your relationship with her grandfather seems to be better-" Liu Ruyan muttered.

Regarding Yang Jier's identity, in fact, many people in the school know a little about it. She has a mother of a deputy mayor, who has now become the secretary of the Yangshuo Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, while her grandfather is the former secretary of the provincial party committee Sang Mingda. At this time, she has been transferred to the Central Committee and served as Vice Premier of the State Council.

Chen Mingluo and Yang Ji'er have a good relationship, and they can be described as a very strong relationship. Everyone knows this. At that time, many boys beat their chests and stamped their feet for a long time, but they don't know that it turns out that the friendship between Chen Mingluo and Sang Mingda is so deep that they can actually make Vice Premier Sang call him to chat with him.

If this kind of thing is spread, it will probably attract a lot of attention.

After this disturbance, the three of them had almost finished eating.

However, the conversation was still not finished, especially when Murong found that Chen Mingluo was so powerful, he suggested that everyone find a teahouse, make a pot of tea, have a rest, and talk about something by the way.

Liu Ruyan naturally had no objection. Chen Mingluo looked at it and nodded in agreement.

"About the new song, we can walk on two legs-" Chen Mingluo took a sip of tea and said to Liu Ruyan.

"One leg is to contact the Hong Kong lyricist and songwriter, and it is required to be tailored. What is the other leg?" At this time, Liu Ruyan had already understood that Chen Mingluo must have wanted to find a few good songs for himself from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but he was not sure what his other strategy was.

"The other one is naturally to screen out the local original songwriters." Chen Mingluo replied.

In Chen Mingluo's opinion, Liu Ruyan is now quite popular in the pop music scene, but her interpretation style has been relatively fixed and there is no need to adjust in the short term, so we can collect lyrics and music suitable for Liu Ruyan's singing style from mainland grassroots songwriters.

"That may be a more troublesome thing. Without the support of the company, it is probably difficult to deal with it." After hearing this, Liu Ruyan felt that this matter would be more troublesome. She had two or three big cats and kittens on her side. As Chen Mingluo said, she was just a straw team, so how could she take care of such things?

"You don't have to worry about this, I will naturally have a way to help you." Chen Mingluo had already thought of the idea.

Chen Mingluo's idea naturally hit Liu Ruyan's alma mater, Xiling University.

Although there are people in charge of the daily work of the school Youth League Committee today, Chen Mingluo, the deputy secretary, has a very important right to speak, and there is nothing he wants to do.

This time, he plans to hold an original songwriting competition nationwide in the name of his alma mater supporting his students. He spends a lot of money to buy excellent lyrics and music that emerge from the competition. On the one hand, it can solve the embarrassing scene of Liu Ruyan's current lack of songs, and at the same time it can also increase the popularity and influence of Xiling University. This can also be said to be a win-win situation.

Of course, holding such a national original lyrics and songwriting competition will not require too little money. It requires money to ask the judges to identify things. However, as the organizer, Chen Mingluo felt that he was still very profitable. One was eye-catching and increased the popularity of Xiling University. The other was that he bought out these lyrics and songs in the name of the organizer. Whether he kept them himself or sold them, it was very profitable.

Pushing Liu Ruyan to the forefront of this competition is also a good advertising campaign. I believe that media outlets from all over the country will definitely compete to report this. At that time, they will spread some rumors and add some entertainment topics. Liu Ruyan will only become more popular than now.

"In fact, except for asking judges and other things, it really doesn't cost much money." Chen Mingluo has already been quite experienced in doing this kind of thing. He is considering using students on a large scale to assist in this work, such as conducting a preliminary selection of manuscripts, and then launching subsequent news offensives in the media from time to time to expand the influence of the matter.

The most important thing is that Chen Mingluo even thought of the theme, "A prosperous era is a thousand gold medal."

This temptation of a single word of money will probably make many people thrust into their heads.
Chapter completed!