The legend of rebirth

Chapter 473 Sampling Ghost

In the last two weeks of Ye Luo's third month in the United States, the beauty company is still reporting success.

The new albums of Song Yan and Xiao Qiong have sold more than 3000 million copies in California.

These two female singers who are destined to become rivals in their singing careers, in this confrontation, Song Yan has the upper hand for the first time.The sales volume of her albums came first after release, four hours ahead of Xiao Qiong, and took the lead to break through the 500 million mark.

With the sales of more than 3000 million records, the beauty company is naturally making a lot of money. Although there is still a long way to go before Mai Ruina's huge liquidated damages of [-] million US dollars, at least Ye Luo sees the hope of introducing this international superstar .

And Mai Ruina has not been idle recently. Her lawyer team sued Liyin Records in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York with a lawsuit.

Because many cases involving federal law in New York City are tried here, the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York is also one of the most influential and largest courts in the United States.

This incident caused an uproar in the American media.

Melina is one of the most influential artists in the United States, and Liyin is one of the largest record companies in the United States. These two topics are fighting each other, and it is impossible not to attract attention.

However, because the case itself is still in the filing and investigation stage for the time being, and there is no formal court session, there are different opinions and various speculations about the inside story, and there is no unified statement.

In fact, after Ye Luo paid attention to the newspapers for a week, he found not only that there was no unified statement, but there was not even a reliable statement.

Because of the beauty company, in the public speculation, it has never been mentioned at all.

This is not surprising, the Beauty Company is only a mid-level record company, as long as Americans who have a little understanding of the music industry, they will not associate Mai Ruina's job-hopping partner with the Beauty Company. Those are not at the same level at all.

In the past two weeks, the MV for Song Yan's new album was finally filmed. Ye Luo couldn't be happier after watching it.

However, the overall effect of the MV was very good. The MV production team was lent to Ye Luo by Mai Ruina, and they really did a great job.

Then, under Ye Luo's instruction, Tang Jinxiu sent all the MVs to Le Shi under Song Yan's resentful eyes.

The video format on the website is generally FLV, and the format Tang Jinxiu sends to others is MP4, and Leshi needs to transcode it, so it won't be sent immediately.

As a result, Tang Jinxiu just sent the video to Leshi, and within a quarter of an hour, Song Yan's album was posted online by Leshi. It is estimated that Yang Yuanshan has already prepared a high-performance server and is waiting for transcoding. It can be seen that he degree of urgency.

It has been five full days since the video was posted on LeTV.com.

During these five days, whenever Song Yan was free in the office, she would refresh her record page on Leshi.com. As a result, her complexion became worse every day during these five days.

That day, Ye Luo finished her work, looked over at Song Yan's screen, and said with a smile, "Oh, not bad. Eight thousand hits, over 3000 downloads, and hundreds of comments Mr. Song, you're trying to get angry."

Song Yan gave Ye Luo an angry look, "Will you die if you don't speak ironically?"

"I guess you contributed several hundred of the [-] hits, right?" Ye Luo smiled, "I think you've been refreshing the page for the past two days when you have nothing to do."

Song Yan was so angry that she simply closed her special page, and put her hands on her chest, huffing and puffing.

Seeing that Song Yan was upset, Ye Luo comforted her with a smile, "Oh, this data is already pretty good. Think about it, the sales volume in California is more than 500 million, the market is basically saturated, everyone has records in their hands, it's nothing It is necessary to download your MV. And Leshi has never done an advertisement in California, who knows this website.

As for music fans in other states, they have never heard of your name Song, because your album is not in the national record market.

Domestic music fans don't even know that you released a new album, and even if they knew, they wouldn't be able to download it.

So, based on Leshi's poor user base in the United States, you can have 3000 hits and more than [-] downloads. This ratio is simply crazy.

I kid you not, you really want fire. "

"But what's the use of this?" Song Yan said depressedly, "It's been five days, and there are only more than 3000 downloads in total, which is equivalent to selling more than 3000 copies. How much money do we make? It can't be compared with the California market. It doesn't make sense!"

"Of course it makes sense." Ye Luo smiled, "Your MV in Leshi is actually a bait. I'm waiting for someone to bite the bait."

"Who would bite the hook?" Song Yan asked in confusion.

"Buddha said you can't say it." Ye Luo said, "By the way, don't touch the sales money collected by the beauty company in the past two weeks, I will use it."

"Oh." Song Yan nodded.

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Another day later, at noon, Song Yan's female assistant, Xiao Liu, received a call and ran into the office in a panic, "Mr. Song, someone has sued our beauty company to court!"

Song Yan had just finished her lunch and was in the office to touch up her makeup. She painted her lipstick in front of the mirror of her makeup box. When she heard the news, she shook her hand and accidentally drew a bloody mouth out.

The girl hurriedly covered her mouth with a tissue, first glanced at Ye Luo, and found that Ye Luo was not looking at her, she was relieved, and asked in a low voice, "Who sued us, and in what name?"

"Raymond, they sued us for music plagiarism." Xiao Liu said.

Song Yan panicked at first, then she seemed to remember something, and looked at Ye Luo beside her again.

She noticed a tricky smile on Ye Luo's face, she knew it, and waved to Xiao Liu: "I see, you go out first."

When the female assistant left the office, Song Yan asked Ye Luo, "Is this your fault?"

"That's right." Ye Luo nodded with a smile, "I'm just messing around, sampling ghosts."

"What exactly is a sampling ghost?" Song Yan asked, "You didn't mention it last time."

"Okay, let me explain it to you." Ye Luo put his hands down from the keyboard, slightly turned the boss chair, and said to Song Yan: "This matter, we have to start with the validity period of the music copyright.

In the United States, the copyright of music is valid for 60 years.A piece of music, 60 years after its release, is not protected by copyright law, but enters the public domain.

The public domain refers to the public cultural heritage, the collection of all human wisdom that anyone can use and process without restriction.

Then, if the music has been released for less than 60 years, it is protected by the copyright law. If it is used or processed, it must be notified in advance and paid.

This is easy to understand, right? "

"I know that." Song Yan nodded, and then guessed: "Then you adapted "Roal" last time, which used a piece of music owned by Raymond Company's copyright, and didn't say hello to anyone, and didn't pay others. money, so Raymond sued us?"

"Look, I've learned to answer quickly, really smart." Ye Luo nodded, "But, do you know how much music copyrighted by Raymond Company I used in the new version of "Roal"?"

"How much?" Song Yan asked.

"One second." Ye Luo said, "It's only one second. I used their music for the main and chorus transition of the song for a second."

"Then why did you do this?" Song Yan asked.

"Let me first answer what you call a sampler ghost. If you know what a sampler ghost is, you know why I did it." Ye Luo laughed, "Sampler ghost is a derogatory term for an alternative record company in the music industry.

What is sampling is to cut some fragments from existing music records, and then collage them into your own works.

Sampling played an important role in the rise of American Hip-hop music.

Many masterpieces of the golden age of Hip-hop are large platters of random sampling and collage.This seems unimaginable now, but it was normal at the time.

Until the 90s of the last century, the situation was different, and the copyright law came out.This sampling behavior is resisted by copyright law.There are many cases in this area. The most famous case is that seven years ago, a piece of old music sampled for two seconds in a best-selling album of Rolling Records was sued by Raymond, the copyright owner. , claiming $5000 million.Rolling Records ultimately lost the case.

So the copyright law resists sampling behavior, but sampling behavior is a habit that American musicians have developed for a long time. Under this contradictory background, sampling ghosts emerged as the times require.

What is a sampling ghost? Some record companies buy a large number of old record copyrights that are no longer released at a very low price, hold them in their own hands, and then they do not make music, but only listen to music.

Once other companies have sampled the records in their hands, they will go to court and earn this compensation.

Among them, Raymond Company is the most notorious sampling ghost in the United States. It became famous in the First World War seven years ago. Since then, it has only been imitated and never surpassed. "

When Ye Luo said this, the clever Song Yan already understood: "So you deliberately sampled Raymond's copyrighted music, and used the name of Raymond to advertise for our beauty company?"

"That's right." Ye Luo smiled, "Although the copyright law treats everyone equally, in the American music circle, the sampling ghosts are collectively despised.

Of course, if the sampling time is very long, such as ten seconds or even longer, it deserves it, and everyone will not sympathize with you.This degree is very important.

If it's a second, don't worry, although we may have to pay some compensation in the end, the public opinion in the American music circle is definitely on our side.

And even if the public opinion is not on our side, it's okay, it's famous anyway.Regardless of good reputation or notoriety, let the music fans all over the United States know the existence of our beauty company.

This is equivalent to, we spend a little advertising cost and let the famous Raymond Company advertise for us.

The effect of this kind of advertisement will be better than spending the same money to do a real advertisement. After all, this is gossip in the professional field, and music fans love to hear it. "

Song Yan said: "Combined with the disclosure of Mai Ruina's lawsuit, Beauty Company will once again attract public attention."

"Yes, with the promotion of these two public opinion upsurges, the beauty company's reputation has gained, and the beauty company has also gained attention in the music zone of Leshi." Ye Luo smiled slightly, "so Mr. Song, do you really want to Fire."

(End of this chapter)