I Won a Prize of 100 Million at the Beginning, and I Became a Capital Boss

Chapter 278 The War Between Capitals!
In the next few years, the box office of the films produced by Huayi will fail frequently, which will cause Huayi's stock price to drop all the way. 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".

The production of "Predecessor 3" has been completed. When Yu Wenwen saw the script of this movie, he had already planned to make a theme song for this movie, which was "Decent" which became popular later.Zheng Wentong was going 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 have a happy time, he agreed for the first time and caught Principal Wang by surprise.

The theme song "Calories" recorded by Rocket 101 Girls has also been produced, and Yang Chaoyue still sang the magic "burn my calories".If "The Richest Man in Xihong City" and "Predecessor 3" compete 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 intentions with Zheng Kai, nor did he inquire about the release date of "Predecessor 3", because the film's announcement will sometimes be raised or temporarily withdrawn, and the film producer may release the film earlier or delay it. Zheng Wentong went to Inquiring about the information of "Predecessor 3" may make Huayi vigilant.

Zheng Kai originally thought that Zheng Wentong was planning to recruit him to Galloping Pony, but he was still preparing words to say no. After all, Huayi had already spent 7 million to acquire a film and television company in which Zheng Kai personally held shares, and he had no way to leave Huayi and start anew.

Because Zheng Wentong didn't drink, Yu Shuxin and Wang Damao, who came to the bar together, didn't drink much. The three of them left early, and Principal Wang stayed in the bar to continue playing. That night, Principal Wang spent more than 200 million yuan in the bar. The Ace of Spades, a six-pack of Shenlong sets priced at 8 yuan, cost more than 8 million yuan.As a result, Principal Wang and Ace of Spades were both trending on Weibo and Weibo.

Wang Damao's single "Ace of Spades" and the MV are both online on all major music apps under the NEXT Music Group. Various Internet celebrities in Weiyin have already begun to cover Wang Damao's Ace of Spades, Kuaishou and Jiaoyin Internet celebrities They also started to cover this song by Wang Damao. As a result, the well-known head anchors received a letter from NEXT Music Group’s lawyers, clearly stating that without commercial permission, anchors on other platforms are prohibited from covering Wang Damao’s songs or using Wang Damao’s songs. background music.

The two major platforms, Bytedance and Kuaishou, knew that this was Zheng Wentong's use of music copyright to get stuck in the necks of Kuaishou and Jiaoyin.

Byte is very worried. Kuaishou has Penguin behind it, and at least it is authorized by Penguin Music. If Penguin Music and NEXT Music Group join forces to block Byte’s short video app Jiaoyin, users of Jiaoyin will be very passive.

Ordinary users are fine. It is impossible for NEXT Music Group to sue an ordinary user for singing songs in the live broadcast room. , I would rather choose to live broadcast on third-party platforms such as Weiyin, Penguin Weishi or Kuaishou. Without these top anchors, Jiaoyin will gradually stop the high growth of new users.

Zhang Yiming also finds it tricky now. The volume of bytes is actually bigger than Weikexinke. Regardless of the number of employees, the company’s revenue exceeds Weikexinke by a step. As a result, Zheng Wentong integrated NEXT music and also controlled the largest film and television company in China. The company’s pony is galloping, causing ByteDance’s copyright layout in music and film and television to fall far behind the slope system, resulting in a small-scale Weikexinke being able to achieve dimensionality reduction strikes against the large-scale ByteDance.

Bai Xiaolu asked Zheng Wentong, "How can you be sure that Penguin Music will follow NEXT Music to block Jiaoyin APP, and prohibit the head anchors of Jiaoyin APP from using NEXT Music or Penguin Music's background music?"

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

"If I were Xiao Ma, if NEXT Music was willing to be the first bird to ask Byte for music copyright fees, then Penguin Music would definitely follow the trend, and vice versa. If Byte is willing to pay this money, then NEXT Music and Penguin Music has an additional revenue every year, which is also a good thing for NEXT Music Group, which is about to go public."

"If Byte is unwilling to pay this fee, then it will have to endure the anchors switching to other platforms. Although Weikexinke has recruited many talents in computer and mathematics, the genius youth plan is also focusing on recruiting these people, but Weike Xinke There is still a big gap between us and Byte in terms of algorithm recommendation.”

"In terms of overseas markets, Yangluyu has done a good job. Their personalized recommendation has made a big breakthrough in overseas markets. According to our estimates, after the Spring Festival next year, the number of TikTok users in Europe and Southeast Asia will increase. Both can break through [-] million, and it is not easy for Byte’s Zynn to catch up directly.” Zheng Wentong explained to Bai Xiaolu.

"It's as if the membership price of a video website increases, and one platform raises the price, and the other three platforms will also increase the price at the same time. It feels like a good deal, right?" Bai Xiaolu asked Zheng Wentong.

"Currently, NEXT Music and Penguin Music have covered 96% of the music copyrights in the mainland market. Even if Byte buys the remaining 4% of the music copyrights, it will not help. In fact, NEXT Music and Penguin Music have formed a de facto monopoly position. , Two companies do not mean that they are not a monopoly, just like three barrels of oil." Zheng Wentong explained.

This is the fact. In addition to music copyrights, Galloping Horse and White Deer Studio also simultaneously asked Jiaoyin and Xigua Video to clean up many popular TV series in the short video app, including "In the Name of the People", "Ordinary Glory", " "White Night Chasing the Murder", "Sweet Honey as Ashes as Frost", "Ode to Joy" and so on.

The copyright dispute between ByteDance and Weike Xinke is intensifying. 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. The film and television copyright owners or music copyright owners require us to We have already done synchronous processing to clean up and remove the videos.”

"But what confuses us is that users reported to us that if he posted the same video on Weiyin, he would not be judged as a violation, but he would be judged as a violation if he posted a video on Jiaoyin."

"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 the review. It is hard for people to believe this game review the impartiality of the department.”

"The reason why the Internet industry can flourish in our country is the strong support of the state. Every year, a lot of money is invested in the 4G industry to popularize 4G networks. Therefore, the number of mobile Internet users in China is increasing by hundreds of millions every year."

"The second is the free and sharing spirit of the Internet industry. I really hope that NEXT Music and Penguin Music can present the reasons for banning horn users from using their music in a fair, just and open manner, but unfortunately, many of their bans have no reason. Anti-monopoly [-]. Protection of innovation is a very serious social and public issue, and this issue is more worthy of discussion and research by all parties." Zhang Yiming said.

When Zhang Yiming suggested that Zheng Wentong suppressed Byte through a monopoly position, Zheng Wentong also publicly responded to Zhang Yiming's remarks.

"Our film and television company invests a huge amount of money in the production of film and television dramas every year. For example, the production cost of "Sweet Honey, Ashes Like Frost" is as high as [-] million."

"When the show was broadcast, short video users began to upload content that only VIP members could see, and instead of editing a certain clip, they divided each episode of the TV series into different short videos to upload, so that other Short video users can enjoy this drama for free, which has brought great economic losses to our TV drama producers."

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

"We notified Jiaoyin and asked them to contact users and clean up relevant video content in a timely manner, but Jiaoyin did not cooperate, but continued to default users to continue uploading relevant video content. Jiaoyin is a short video platform, if Jiaoyin is not willing If we cooperate, then we can only claim and protect our rights through legal means." Zheng Wentong said.

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

Netizens commented that Weike Xinke has been preparing to overtake ByteDance since August 17. This is a war between capitals!

　There's more at night!
　　
　
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