legendary trader

Chapter 797 798 Music Copyright
Chen Fan stayed in Shanghai for a few days, mainly going to Chaofan Network Company to understand the current development situation.

After the Nasdaq market peaked in March, the Nasdaq has fallen for seven consecutive months, and the soft trend has not been reversed until now. The market has begun to accept the remarks that the Nasdaq market has entered a bear market. Listed companies have withdrawn, which has also made it more difficult for companies in emerging industries to raise funds in the past six months. Many companies have or are preparing to file for bankruptcy due to a broken capital chain.

This wave of distrust of companies in emerging industries has also spread from the other side of the ocean to China early on. A large number of domestic technology companies that have nothing to do with the Internet are now beginning to be under the pressure of a shortage of funds, and their operations are in trouble.

Because Chaofan Network Company is backed by the big tree of Chaofan Investment, it has not been greatly affected. After all, there can be a huge amount of money lying in the bank account of Chaofan Investment Company, although it has not reached the point where there is nowhere to burn it. However, normal business activities will not be affected.

Chen Fan came to the company this time because Li Yihong had several acquisition projects that required Chen Fan to make a decision. Although the information was sent to the imperial capital, Chen Fan and Liu Ying had also read it. For the acquisition of some valuable companies at this time, they are sure I didn't think there was anything bad about it, and since I did have sufficient cash reserves, Chen Fan came anyway.

However, the difference from Li Yihong's expectation is that Chen Fan does not support the projects he is looking at now. Most of these domestic Internet companies are still focusing on building portals and online sales.

Although the platforms of these Internet companies have been built, there are still many problems, and more funds and manpower are needed to improve them, which means that they will continue to burn money.

The website that is established now knows how to find the forgotten target group and consciously compete for these netizens, but in essence it is a subdivided website to serve specific groups of people, but such netizens are only a minority after all, and Chen Fan has no interest in buying it at all. Such a company.

As for online sales, Amazon, a company that has done well in the United States, doesn't agree with their business philosophy. Is it possible to expect him to pay for such a project.

Although Paz lost most of the projects, since he came here, there are naturally some projects that both he and Liu Ying are more interested in.

Chen Fan sat on the boss chair, took out two small things from his bag and put them on the desk one by one, and said with a smile, "You should know these things."

"MP3."

Li Yihong looked at Chen Fan in surprise, and then at the things on the table. His mood, which was not good at the beginning, instantly reversed.

Before Chen Fan approved all the projects he took out to be useless. Although Li Yihong did not agree with Chen Fan's statement, the official rank crushed people. As a wage earner, it is naturally impossible for the boss to contradict him.

Just when he thought that the few projects he created might all come to an end, when Chen Fan suddenly made such a move, Li Yihong didn't understand what he meant.

Among the acquisition projects I submitted, there is such a project team composed of several music enthusiast programmers. The company has not even registered. Music website.

This thing itself is actually not complicated, because the platform is very simple to build. In fact, their website now has a music download section. However, as a senior executive, Li Yihong is still very interested in this business Be cautious, after all, it involves copyright issues.

At present, the website does not have a dedicated person to collect related music download resources, all of which are uploaded and shared by some users themselves.

Now that Chen Fan took out these two things, both of which are MP3 players on the market, Li Yihong naturally knew what it meant.

Yes, the small things that Chen Fan put on the table are the world's first MP3 player MPman F10 launched by Bangguo Sehan Company and Rio PMP300 launched by American Diamond Company.

To be honest, if Liu Ying hadn't brought this thing back from Ou Lu, Chen Fan really didn't know there was such a thing. He could directly download the audio source from the Internet and listen to it anytime.

Previously, Chen Fan knew that the popular player on campus was the Walkman with the cassette inserted or a slightly larger CD player. However, due to the size of the cassette and the CD, this kind of music player is not small, and it is a bit cumbersome to hang on the waist.

The first MP3 player that Liu Ying brought over was actually a Rio PMP300 player from the American Diamond Company, which is small enough and light.

As Chen Fan, who has just left school for two years, college life is just like that, with studies, sports, online games, and music.

Although Chen Fan is not a music enthusiast, of course he had to cater to the trend during his years in school. Although he didn't chase stars, he still wanted to listen to the latest music.

And after seeing that one of Li Yihong's acquisition projects claimed to be a global online music library project, Chen Fan was naturally a little tempted, and he and Liu Ying made a decision after a simple discussion. This project can be done.

After all, Liu Ying is also young. Young people are not used to listening to music. Otherwise, why would she bring a PMP300 back to China? Isn’t she able to listen to her favorite music on the road at any time?
And the biggest advantage of the MP3 player is that it does not need to play according to the album, because if you like a singer, you will not like to listen to all his songs.

In fact, there are only so many songs that you like to listen to, but no company will customize for you and record tapes or CDs according to your preferences.

In the past, I'm sorry, you can only put a few more tapes or CDs in your bag so that you can listen to the songs you like at any time.

But after Liu Ying bought this MP3 player, she solved this problem. She only downloaded the songs she liked to listen to in the player, which perfectly solved this problem.

After Chen Fan saw this thing, he also liked it. He searched around in the imperial capital and bought the F10 player from Sehan Company. The two players have similar functions. The F10 is slightly larger than the PMP300. Chen Fan I feel that this is better for men, and the compact one is suitable for ladies like Liu Ying.

However, there are still relatively few people buying this product in China at present, and the price is relatively low, which is almost the same as the price of a mobile phone. That is to say, some music enthusiasts will buy this product to play, and it is more convenient.

"What does Mr. Chen mean?"

Although Li Yihong guessed what Chen Fan was thinking, he still wanted to find out, so he asked this question.

"It's a good idea to build an online music library. Dissemination of music sources through the Internet can meet the needs of many netizens, especially when they can be listened to anytime, anywhere."

Chen Fan started to talk to Li Yihong about the next step that he and Liu Ying had envisioned. There was nothing out of the ordinary, but he felt that their plan was not bad. No matter if there was a market or not, it was just a waste of money.

But at the end, Chen Fan suddenly mentioned a lawsuit in the United States last year.

"You guys must have known about the copyright disputes between the American Empire and those record companies in the United States when you made this project proposal. Since we are going to do it, let's do it cleanly and go directly to those music companies to buy their copyrights."

Speaking of this, Chen Fan chuckled, "Speaking of which, the music on these two players, except for the European and American music, was downloaded by Mr. Liu from the Oulu website. The domestic music is all pirated. The resources I found were not paid for.

After we set up this music library, we still focus on free in the early stage. After all, there are so many online resources now, if you charge for it, no one will bother you.

But this can also be used as a reason. It should be possible to obtain the copyright from the music company at a low price. As for the future, let's talk about it later. "

"Okay Mr. Chen, I know what to do next. I will set up the project department as soon as possible and fully promote the copyright negotiation."

Li Yihong said immediately, and briefly mentioned the work behind him.

"Before I came here, I also contacted Lawyer Lin and learned about the relevant situation. It is best for those copyrights to be exclusive copyrights, and the time should reach the legal limit. Anyway, the longer the better, you should understand what this means. The acquisition The price can be raised appropriately, but I don’t think the price will be too expensive, after all, there are so many free things on the Internet, and he has to dare to call out the high price.”

Chen Fan said with a smile.

"The copyright should be easy to discuss, even Mr. Chen, you should also know that there are too many songs, even if the price is cheap, the acquisition cost will be huge."

Li Yihong thinks that the money problem should be solved first. Although Chaofan Network Company has never been short of money, the purchase of copyrights this time will definitely cost a lot. After all, how many songs will appear on the market every year, who can give an accurate estimate? number.

"You don't have to worry about the cost, talk about it first, and you will definitely not lose your money after the talk."

Chen Fan smiled lightly, he really didn't believe that he would not be able to afford the copyrights of those songs, after all, the company had a lot of money lying in its account now, and Zheng Xiaopang was also looking for a way out for these funds, of course he could only It’s buying, buying, buying, spending money to buy companies and assets.

When Chen Fan left Shanghai, Chaofan Network Company's project to create a music library had already started to advance intensively with Li Yihong's personal participation.

In this era, due to the "private upload" of various website users, there is a flood of free music sources on the Internet, and the synchronization rate is very high. Often, the new songs released by singers are already flying all over the sky in less than 24 hours. As a result, music companies have spent huge sums of money to create singer albums, and sales of both tapes and CDs have been greatly reduced.

In this context, Chaofan Network Company suddenly came to buy the copyright of the song for free trial listening and downloading on the Internet. At first, it was not the smiling face that Chen Fan thought it was.

In the eyes of these music companies, this is the rhythm to completely kill them.

How do music companies make money, not by making popular singers and making albums, selling tapes and CDs, because of the free music sources on the Internet, these companies have suffered heavy losses, and now Chaofan Network Company actually came to them to buy related copyrights. Don't you want to break their roots?

After Chen Fan returned to the imperial capital, he received a call from Li Yihong within a few days, and learned that several domestic music companies he had contacted were cold.

Downloading music online will affect the sales of offline physical albums. Chen Fan has expected it for a long time. Otherwise, he would not think that it would not be too expensive to buy online copyrights now, but the attitude of the music company made him very puzzled. up.

Even if you don't sell the copyright to me, can you still reverse the status quo on the Internet?

However, Li Yihong quickly told him that domestic music companies have long noticed the problem of online music sources, and have also contacted major websites. Of course, the final result was that they were beaten because the music sources were all uploaded by users themselves. The website is not responsible for the sharing, and now it is said that the legal advisors of several music companies have contacted the website.

Come on, it seems that there is nothing on my side.

"Mr. Chen, we also have contact here, mainly because the other party asked us to delete the relevant audio source."

Li Yihong said to Chen Fan on the phone.

"What's the site's response?"

Chen Fan felt that Li Yihong's call did not seem to be aimless, but he must have found a countermeasure, so he asked directly.

"Lawyer Lin also confirmed that the audio sources uploaded by users are indeed infringing, so we plan to delete these infringing resources in the near future."

Li Yihong said: "However, if users continue to upload, we have nothing to do. We can't arrange someone to be responsible for this work. We can only ask music companies to find out what is infringing on our website. Contact us, we It will be dealt with in a timely manner after verification here.”

Hearing this, Chen Fan understood that the possibility of getting the copyright from the music company in the short term is infinitely close to zero. It will take half a year of wrangling. Before the music company gives up, the copyright cannot be obtained.

"Let them hit the south wall as well."

Chen Fan understands Li Yihong's attitude towards this matter, or the current attitude of major websites, so he naturally thinks it is feasible.

However, Chen Fan also realized the attitude of the music company during this phone call. It seems that they are still very concerned about their works, and it may be difficult to get them at a low price.

"Old Li, what I said earlier was to buy out the online copyright. If possible, you can also be more flexible. Just now you mentioned their latest album, and we can discuss it together during the negotiation.

This is how I think about it. We have to buy out the copyright of the old songs released before. The market for these songs has been exhausted. Although we may be able to sell albums in the future, the sales volume can almost be ignored. For new songs, we still want the exclusive copyright. , but you can engage in online free trial listening and online sales.

The money from online sales is allocated according to the ratio discussed. The songs on the Internet are not physical, so they definitely cannot be sold at the same price as the physical albums. It can be much cheaper. Let those singers promote themselves and tell them that they can buy genuine music sources on our website.

I mean you probably understand? "

At the end, Chen Fan asked.

"Yeah, I understand Mr. Chen's meaning."

Li Yihong said quickly on the phone.

"You can study this now, but don't throw it out. We will talk about it later depending on the negotiation situation. Now let's do what you thought before."

Chen Fan said indifferently, and hung up the call before continuing for a long time.

(End of this chapter)