Huayu: Starting from Fahrenheit

Chapter 9 Copyright Registration, Wu Jizun
The next morning, Wu Zhuo went to the Formosa Music Copyright Association and applied for registration of some songs he had copied.

Because it takes some time to review, the copyright certificate has not been obtained yet.

By the way, he took this opportunity to check the copyright issues of some songs at the Copyright Association.

If you plagiarize a song but don't promote Jay Chou, that would be too un-plagiaristic.

It’s only 2005 now, and Jay Chou still has many classic songs that have not been released.

But the time is not far away, Wu Zhuo needs to check carefully which songs have been registered and which songs have not been registered.

For example, songs like "Blue and White Porcelain", "Lanting Preface" and "Rice Fragrance".

Through the staff's internal network, Wu Chao quickly concluded that these songs had not yet been registered.

If it is not registered, it basically means that it has not been written yet.

Taiwan is not like the mainland at that time, where copyright awareness is weak.

After the development in the 1980s and 1990s, the awareness of copyright protection in Taiwan has become very strong.

In order to avoid their songs being plagiarized or stolen, almost all songwriters will apply for registration with the Music Copyright Association as soon as the songs are created.

If you don't register, and someone else has registered first, then your work will be almost in vain.

Because according to copyright law, as long as the copyright is approved by the association, it means that it has taken effect.

The kind that you can't even win a lawsuit.

Therefore, this also means that Wu Zhuo can now register Jay Chou's classic songs such as "Blue and White Porcelain" that he remembers.

As long as the song is registered, Jay Chou cannot release it even if he never releases it.

“Maybe I don’t need to join Fahrenheit and can release songs on my own!”

As he walked out of the Baodao Intellectual Property Bureau, Wu Zhuo couldn't help but have this thought in his mind.

However, in an instant, this idea was thrown out of his mind.

Since he is not famous, if he wants to release songs on his own, it means that the copyrights of the songs he owns will basically be taken away by the record company.

Instead of this, I might as well not touch these songs for the time being.

He has already made a plan, and his priority is to join Fahrenheit.

After joining, he can come up with a few songs to help the group increase its influence.

As for other songs, he has no plans to release them without fame or the ability to obtain all the copyrights.

Only with the help of Fahrenheit's instant success, fame and money, will he have the capital and ability to keep the copyrights of these songs.

After leaving the Wisdom Bureau, Wu Zhuo went to Tianxi.

Chen Yiru, Wang Dongcheng and others did not come to the company today.

Several of them have their own announcements and activities, and before the filming of "KO One" starts, everyone is busy with their own things.

Although he didn't meet Chen Yiru and Jiro Wang, Wu Chao did meet the other two former members of Fahrenheit.

Wu Zun and Aaron Yan.

This was the first time Wu Zhuo met Wu Zun.

When Wu Zhuo came in, the company's darling was sitting quietly in the lounge reading comics.

Wu Zhuo took a look and saw it was the Japanese manga "Oriental Juliet".

Wu Zun is indeed the company's treasure.

The family business is a famous consortium in Brunei. After he entered the company, his position in the entire company was unique.

Although currently he only plays a minor role in the hit TV series "Itazura na Kiss".

But the company has already determined that he will be the focus of the company's support.

In order to promote him, the company has already acquired the adaptation rights of "Oriental Juliet". Once the crew is ready, he will join the crew immediately.

In order to ensure the success of this drama, the company also plans to invite the extremely popular Lin Yichen to play the female lead.

In addition, the company will also invite an actor of the best actor level to play a supporting role for him.

In comparison, although Wu Zhuo was also valued by the company, his treatment was completely different.

As for why he was not cast in the main role in "KO One" and only played the minor role of Tian Hongguang, the reason was that the company needed to strike a balance.

It is impossible for a company to put all its eggs in one basket.

Wu Zun has already been confirmed to play the leading role in a big production. If he is given the main role of "KO One", it will be detrimental to the company's development.

"Are you Wu Zhuo?"

As if sensing someone was watching him, Wu Zun put down the comic in his hand and raised his head.

"I'm Wu Zhuo, hello!"

Wu Zhuo was not surprised that the other party knew him.

They are all from the same company. Even if you haven't seen them, you have heard of them.

"I'm Wu Jizun, nice to meet you!"

Wu Jizun?
Wu Zhuo was stunned. Is this Wu Zun’s real name?

No wonder, no wonder he is called Wujizun in "Basketball Fire", it turns out it is a translation of his real name.

“Is the filming of Oriental Juliet about to start?”

Wu Zhuo sat down next to him and glanced at Aaron Yan who was staring at him with the same eyes as Ding Xiaoyu in KO One not far away. He ignored his murderous gaze and started chatting with Wu Zun.

“Not yet. The director asked me to take a look at the comics first. If we want to start filming, we may have to wait until November.” Wu Zun shook his head.

"Do you have any grudge against Wu Genglin?" Wu Zun looked at Aaron Yan who was staring at Wu Zhuo over there and asked curiously.

"He felt that I had taken the role from him, but in fact, the company gave the role to me because he was absent on the day of the audition."

Wu Zhuo spread his hands.

He would never admit that he stole the role.

This is clearly the company's decision.

"He's a little stingy. The company has already arranged for him to play another role, but he's still keeping his eyes on you."

Wu Zun shook his head.

He is a privileged person himself, and many people in the company dislike him for this reason.

Therefore, he always hates those who take their anger out on individuals because of the company's decisions.

Wu Genglin is such a person.

"I don't care. If he thinks his eyes can kill me, then he can continue!"

Wu Zhuo said, standing up, "Leave me your contact information, let's play together when we are free!"

"can!"

After exchanging numbers with Wu Zun, Wu Zhuo quickly left the company.

The purpose of his coming here today was to get the script.

As expected, due to the popularity of "It Started with a Kiss", Komi revised the script of "KO One".

Wu Zhuo took a look at the new script and found it was basically the same as the previous version.

What makes Wu Chao a little regretful is that the role of Ding Xiaoyu did not have any more scenes because of his appearance, and it remained almost the same as before.

But it doesn’t matter.

This is not a monologue, adding a few scenes makes no difference to not adding them.

In addition, the revised new script is actually quite good.

Although Wang Datong became the central protagonist.

But we have to admit that Jiro Wang’s character Dadong Wang is actually the core of the drama “KO One”.

If it weren’t for the charm of this character, “KO One” wouldn’t have been so popular.

There is still some truth in the saying that there is no ultimate without Dadong.

Without him, this passionate drama would not be passionate enough relying on the characters of Wang Arthur and Ding Xiaoyu, and might even become a melodramatic love drama.

(End of this chapter)