Chicago 1990

"Do you care? If MJ owns the copyright of our song."

After deciding to suspend school for another school season, Mariah Carey was naturally very happy. The two had more time to stay together. Early in the morning in New York, Song Ya hugged her and muttered: "I’m fine, only Half of the copyright belongs to Sony Music Copyright, and all your songs are in."

"It doesn't matter. Anyway, that part of the copyright is either A or B. They sell it..."

Mariah Carey got up and walked into the bathroom, "Do you want to be a mess?"

"Maybe we can pressure Sony to isolate part of our copyright from the transaction between the two parties."

Song Ya still resists his own song being owned by MJ, especially after talking to Elizabeth Taylor just now.The copyright of music works is roughly divided into three parts. One is the copyright of the song and song works, that is, the copyright, which belongs to the creator of the song and music.

The second is the copyright of the recording work, which belongs to the music company that produces and distributes the record. The production company and the distribution company are generally divided into half in the industry, and the management of the track belongs to the distribution company.Song Ya’s songs belong to this situation. His A+ records and Sony Columbia Records each account for 50% of all records. Sony Columbia Records then internally pours the copyrights of all other songs except for the book to Sony Music Copyright. Management rights are also in Sony Music Copyright Corporation.

The third is the public performance right of the recording, which belongs to the singer who sings the song. However, in specific practice, disadvantaged singers often give up this right to the production company. Therefore, multinational music companies often hand over the original music to another in different countries. A reinterpretation of a local singer.But Song Ya and Mariah Carey are not in this case. Both of them have the public performance rights of their own songs. Other singers must obtain their consent to cover songs. Non-profit private covers are not in this case, but cover singing is strictly speaking Infringement of the copyright of the second part of the recording works is also not acceptable, the accompaniment has to be done by yourself.

The deal between MJ and Sony Columbia Records is for the second part of the copyright.

"What are you going to do?" Mariah Carey asked.

"I don't know, I haven't figured it out yet. Daniel is following up. He will notify me when there is a suitable opportunity." Song Ya replied.

"It's nice to have Daniel as the president," she said.

Indeed, if the current president is still Motura, the two are estimated to have been suppressed and struggled, how comfortable they are now.

Mariah Carey opened the shower head, and there was a splash of water, "Ijustwantyouformyown,,, AllIwantforChristmas, Isyouuuuuu..." She began to let go of her singing in the bathroom again.

"Christmas song?" Song Ya frowned: "Didn't you reject this album?"

"Who told you to have children with other women? I was so angry that I promised Daniel after I returned to New York. I wanted to forget you with music, hum!" She continued singing, "I just want to be with you by my side. Make my dreams come true as you can imagine, at Christmas, all I want is you, only you..."

"Wow, this is not about forgetting my words, it's not right." Song Ya laughed.

"Walter and I wrote it together. It only took fifteen minutes, but Walter was not satisfied with the accompaniment yet. He was changing it."

"Uh... well."

"When does it snow in Chicago?" she asked.

"November will definitely fall, sometimes even earlier."

"Then I will shoot the MV in Chicago? I should be able to catch up with the song before Christmas, right?"

"Okay, I definitely can."

Song Ya was relieved when she had something to do. After spending a few sweet days of leisure time in New York, he bid farewell to his fiancee who started recording work, and continued the hard work of dancing the soundtrack of my life and the release of the movie.

"Long time no see, Jeffrey."

He will also take care of the business along the way, such as after finishing an event near the Chinese community in San Francisco,

"Hello, APLUS." Jeffrey Hawkins welcomed him and Jimmy and others into the office.

"You are really vibrant here." Song Ya sat down and praised. Palm completely emerged from the haze of the failure of the PDA project. Now it has expanded the company and mainly specializes in software development and licensing services for other large companies.

"Give it to you." Jeffrey Hawkins handed Song Ya a newly released HP 200LX, a horizontal flip-top PDA with a black and white LCD screen on the top, and a PC keyboard similar to the conventional layout directly below.

"Wow."

Song Ya feels that this gadget is very close to the one that appeared in the original WhereIsTheLove MV. Palm gave up the hardware plan. Is HP the one that really succeeded in the original world line?"It looks like I'm going to increase HP stock holdings when I look back." He smiled.

"Some functional modules use our software." Jeffrey Hawkins taught him to try out those functions.

"Not bad……"

Song Ya didn't want to play with these things, and after a few perfunctory praises, he asked directly: "Jeffrey, I heard Jimmy say that you want to sell the company?"

"Uh……"

Jeffrey Hawkins looked at Jimmy next to him with a bit of disgust, "I don't want to hide APLUS from you, it's like this, the management and I have reached a consensus on this matter."

"Why not continue to invest? With our current development situation, I can easily help you attract the next round of investors, and I can continue to follow up with a more generous price." Song Ya asked.

Jeffrey Hawkins shook his head, "I have decided that I am a person suitable to bury my head in technology and worry about the trivial matters of profit and company management. The past two years have made me physically and mentally exhausted, so... you can rest assured that APLUS, I and the management sell the shares I will continue to stay in this company and continue to serve the interests of you and other investors."

"Don't be so hypocritical, Jeffrey, Xerox's lawsuit scares you." Jimmy sneered, half leaning against the sofa.

"There are some factors."

Jeffrey Hawkins did not refute, "You can exercise your investor's power APLUS. When the time comes, we will negotiate with the next buyer and you have the priority to match the offer. I like investors like you, but I don’t I like the disgusting lawyer you sent." He pointed to Jimmy, and it seems that Jimmy is annoying him recently.

"There is no room for turning?" Song Ya asked.

"Basically no, there will be results before the end of the year. I will inform you when that happens. After all, I am the founder and controlling party of Palm." Jeffrey Hawkins said, "Trust me, your investment will be rich. Return."

"so be it."

Now that the opponent has already had a showdown, Song Ya doesn't want to entangle anymore, "I'll wait for your good news, the first time."

"do not worry."

In order to create the film project of my life, Song Ya’s investment in the technology industry in 1994 was lacklustre, but this year’s Silicon Valley can be described as rapid change, countless start-ups spin up and down, and the industry keeps creating new technology heroes and rich men. , So that he could not help feeling that he had picked up sesame seeds and lost watermelon afterwards.

In addition, he did not get any new predictions from the Apocalypse. Those new songs basically did not involve the MV of future technology products, or there was no MV at all. The Apocalypse movie cat and mouse game tells a story from the 1960s and 1970s in the United States. New computer notebooks and mobile phones appear like dancing out of my life.

Oh, yes, the MV of Symphony BabaYetu uses full 3D technology, so companies related to 3D image production technology may be able to observe it, but there is a hardware giant in the industry, SGI, and Hollywood special effects production companies that use 3D technology. They are all in the hands of powerful figures such as Jobs, James Cameron and others, and they cannot be bought or bought.

Leaving Palm and continuing in Sunnyvale, he chatted with Mark Anderson at Mosaic Web Browser and learned that their first official product will be launched in October, and then came to the location of the American music website.

Dile built a large and simple office building here, which was empty. Song Ya could feel the cold draught when passing through the lobby on the first floor. The second floor was where the staff worked. Most of them were women. Slowly compare paper text input in front of the computer, and many people still use the two-finger Zen used on old typewriters.

"not bad?"

He visited the website accompanied by Dile, and the typesetting was also very simple, but the network database function of American Music Magazine was basically realized.

"Not bad, the land here is going up all the way." Dile thought he was asking about land prices.

"I said website."

"Uh, basically there are few page views, but the click-through rate of the gossip column is much higher than the regular content." Dile showed him.

Originally, there were very few people who subscribed to Amerika Music Magazine, and Song Ya had nothing to complain about. Most of the gossip section was provided by the Hollywood tabloid Louise Report. They would send in articles that were not very offensive. , And then enter it into the network from here.

Song Ya always felt that something was wrong, and clicked on a touted article that danced my life at the box office and asked: "Can't we add a comment function below the article?"

"BBS?"

"Yes, BBS forum style." Song Ya said.

"I'll ask, call Miss Yan in."

Dile asked the secretary to call in a Chinese woman, in her twenties, with long black hair and no make-up. The blue shirt on her upper body was the cheapest style, very simple but unexpectedly beautiful, her big eyes flashing and brows. The room is quite heroic and feels very comfortable.

"Miss Yan, Hong Yan? Or Yan Hong, she is a PhD candidate at the State University of New York..." Dile introduced.

"Hello, can I call you Yanhong? What exactly is it? Swallow's Yan?"

"Yes, Mr. APLUS, the swallow of the swallow, the red red."

The two shook hands, and Song Ya tentatively used Chinese. He didn't expect that the mandarin of the other party was very standard, but his speech and manners were a bit funny, just like a robot standing in front of him.

"The boss wants to add a comment function under each gossip article, so it is easy to implement?" Dile asked.

"Yes, it just needs to be like this..." Yan Hong immediately crackled on the keyboard, explaining the technique.

"Don't be cautious, Miss Yan, I'm just asking, I don't want to hear the specific details." Song Ya smelled the faint fragrance of shower gel on her body and looked at her with a smile of interest. She was also very tall, tall and perfectly curved.

"Uh...Okay." The other party retracted his hand, his face flushed slightly.

"What exactly do you do in my company?" Song Ya asked.

"Data retrieval."

“Ms. Yan Hong is an overseas student from China. She is working for a short-term summer vacation here. She has already obtained Dow Jones Office.” Dile helped to explain: “Some users reported that it’s not convenient to inquire about previous articles of Amerika Music. Ask her to help add a module to search the database with keywords. She is an expert in this area."

"Short-term job? Does Miss Yan Hong intend to stay and work in our company?" Song Ya continued to ask in Mandarin.

"Uh, sorry, I have already talked with over there..."

"Wow, what a pity, Dow Jones? It's great."