Chapter 1215 The Problem of Piracy

Writing a novel is actually a very boring problem. If you don't pay attention, you will have mental problems.

This is actually the same as actors. Almost everyone has mental problems, it's just a matter of whether the condition is good or bad.

Isn’t there a saying?

Mental patients have broad ideas, and mentally retarded children have much joy.

This sentence is rough but not rough.

Many famous writers, such as the group of people in Baodao, like to go out in groups to have fun and vent their stress. Gu Long, for example, is a good example.

Relatively speaking, Yin Jun cannot be regarded as a true scholar.

The novels and screenplays he wrote were not really immersed in those stories.

To put it bluntly, Yin Jun is just a porter. He tries to move the novels and scripts from his previous life to the present. His perspective can be said to be God's perspective, watching from a high position and watching the development of these stories.

This is also an important reason why Yin Jun has never integrated into this world.

When you know everything, you can understand everything, and you have anticipated the future development, then, does life really have meaning?

In other words, is this kind of life really happy?

Yin Jun has no answer, but he has been working hard to integrate himself into this world.

Therefore, Yin Jun's life is not only about realizing his dreams, he also has time to rest, even while writing "The Lost Dream of the Covered Bridge".

In a villa in the middle of the mountain, a young man and an old man were sitting opposite each other.

This old man is slightly fat, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, and looks a bit affable.

Although he looks like the old man next door you can see everywhere on the street, he is one of the most famous Chinese people alive in the world.

After twenty years, even this can be eliminated.

Because his name is Jin Yong.

Because he wrote fourteen novels.

Because among those born between the 1960s and 1990s, there is almost no one who has not read his novels. Even if they have not read the novels, they must have read the TV series and movies adapted from the novels.

Therefore, no one knows about Jin Yong, and no one knows about it.

For now, Jin Yong's fame is only spreading among overseas Chinese, and his influence has not entered the mainland.

This is why Yin Jun feels that in twenty years, Jin Yong will be the most famous living Chinese.

Yin Jun doesn't remember the specific time clearly, because he was not a book fan in his previous life, but Yin Jun knows how Jin Yong's novels entered the bookshelves of mainlanders.

Pirated version.

In the late 1980s, some publishing houses pirated copies of Jin Yong's novels.

At first they changed the name, and then the author's name was also changed, thinking that this would be able to conceal the truth.

But later on, everyone felt that it was pointless to be so secretive, and I wasn’t afraid that Jin Yong would come to settle accounts with me, so I just published it under my real name.

As a result, the name Jin Yong became known to people one after another.

In the 1990s, when publishing houses in Hong Kong negotiated with mainland China to introduce genuine Jin Yong novels, the country was already flooded with dozens of versions of Jin Yong's novels, and almost everyone who needed to read them had finished them.

Under such circumstances, the sales of Jin Yong's novels will certainly not be very good, and it is said that Jin Yong is very unhappy about this.

He and Spielberg are actually the same type of people. When they pick up a pen or director's microphone, they are artists. When they put it down, they are serious businessmen.

Seeing that at least tens of millions or hundreds of millions of copies of his novels are being circulated in the mainland, but he does not receive any copyright fees, do you think businessman Jin Yong will be angry?

But, as the saying goes, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.

In that era, people really didn't have money to buy genuine novels that cost dozens or hundreds of dollars a set, so they could only buy cheap pirated copies, or they didn't even know they were pirated copies.

With the help of pirated novels, Jin Yong's name is well-known in third- and fourth-tier cities in China.

With such a profound foundation, in the future, every TV series and movie adaptation of Jin Yong will be able to gain super popularity and ratings. This will bring a huge amount of wealth to Jin Yong, who has complete film and television copyrights. .

Compared with the royalties from publishing books, these film and television works, as well as games, etc., which can be adapted over and over again, are much more profitable.

Jin Yong relied on these copyright incomes to earn an annual income of over 100 million, making him the most profitable literati. Compared with him, Ni Jiang was nothing.

As for the 1 yuan royalties for the subsequent adaptation of Jin Yong’s martial arts drama, that’s just a gimmick.

Because this dollar doesn't mean anything.

Just because one of his TV series costs one yuan doesn’t mean that all of his TV series cost one yuan, right?

The current version of his TV series costs one yuan, but the next version may not necessarily cost one yuan, right?

The copyright for his TV series in Mainland China is one yuan, but that doesn’t mean that the copyright for Baodao, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc. is also one yuan, right?

After 2015, the literary world talked about the concept of IP, but Jin Yong mastered the concept of IP 20 years ago, and ordinary people can't compare to it.

But now, Jin Yong is not as high-spirited as he will be in the future. When his reputation was at its highest, he actually went to Huashan to hold a Huashan sword debate, which made a lot of martial arts fans crazy.

On the contrary, Jin Yong was still a little depressed.

"Ajun, what do you think of those publishing houses in the Mainland? Why did they just openly print and publish my novel without even saying hello to me? The most important thing is that they didn't name it after me. !" Jin Yong pointed to a stack of novels on the table and said to Yin Jun with a wry smile.

A few days ago, when a friend went to Huajing, he walked around Xinghua Bookstore and bought a lot of pirated novels and gave them to Jin Yong.

Jin Yong has long dreamed that his novels could enter the mainland and let fellow villagers see his achievements.

But this was not the situation he expected.

No matter how poor and difficult the mainland is now, tell me, it would be fine if my copyright taxes were lower, but bookstores in a country like yours blatantly sell pirated editions, and pirated books are still published by the same state-owned Does it still have heavenly principles if it is printed by a printing company?

Jin Yong was furious and asked Yin Jun to come over.

He knew that Yin Jun had a good relationship with the mainland, so he asked Yin Jun to help him in a roundabout way.

Naturally, Yin Jun and Jin Yong had a lot of interactions.

In the past two years, Kylin TV has remade a lot of Jin Yong martial arts dramas. Like Yin Jun’s old friend Gu Long’s martial arts dramas, Jin Yong’s martial arts dramas are very popular. If they don’t get a ratings of about 40%, even if they are produced It must be rather bad.

Jin Yong can't say that he has a special regard for Yin Jun. After all, everyone is doing business. Yin Jun buys the copyright and he sells the copyright.

But when Jin Yong is being interviewed on weekdays, he often praises Yin Jun as a real genius. Martial arts dramas and entertainment culture will definitely be carried forward by Yin Jun.

This is also a favor.

So Yin Jun came over to listen to the senior's chatter.

What's more, this is more than just nagging. Yin Jun knows more about piracy than Jin Yong. The situation of piracy is more complicated and shameless than what Jin Yong has seen.

In fact, in 2020, China's piracy industry is still thriving, but the quality of the people is getting higher and higher, which has largely offset the impact of various piracy.

Let’s not talk about technological innovation, but just talk about music, movies, novels, comics...etc., which one is not a disaster caused by piracy? Didn’t creators work hard for so long, but in the end many people couldn’t even get enough of porridge?

Jin Yong is relatively good. He became famous very early and based on Xiangjiang Island, so he became famous and rich.

Even if the mainland market doesn't want it at all, he can still live comfortably.

But the problem cannot be viewed this way.

Yin Jun has not forgotten the current time point.

It's 1982.

The piracy industry that will flourish in the future has actually not yet developed and has no scale effect.

Jin Yong came to Yin Jun to talk about this matter, and a light suddenly flashed in the young man's heart.

If I start working hard now, will it bring some changes to this market?

Apart from anything else, in terms of piracy of books, I have a way to fight them well.

Thinking of this, Yin Jun muttered, "They have their own ideas. They are all a group of people who don't understand the law. You don't have to worry about it, Mr. Cha. However, given the current situation in the mainland, I'm afraid it will be difficult for your books to be published in genuine editions." It’s not that easy, at least in terms of royalties, which are probably going to be minimal.”

"Don't worry about this." Jin Yong waved his hand. He is not old yet, and he is not as fond of money as he will be in the future. "In the first ten years, I didn't care about the money. As long as they can read my genuine novels. Ah. Jun, as long as you can do this, I will accept your favor."

"Mr. Cha, you are too polite." Yin Jun said with a smile, "This matter is actually not just your problem. I have seen many novelists' novels in which they were treated roughly like this. I I feel that this is not actually what the people at the top mean, but what the people at the bottom do for their own selfish interests. Rather than me going to help, it would be better for us writers from the literary and art circles in Hong Kong to form a visiting group and go to Beijing for exchanges. By the way, I can tell them the meaning of the literary and art circles in Xiangjiang, what do you think?"

"A group to go to the mainland?"

Jin Yong frowned.

He is not a fool. There is a fierce competition in Xiangjiang now. People who lean towards Britain and those who lean towards the mainland are fighting together. Various visiting groups are coming in an endless stream, some flying to the mainland and some to the UK.

If he organizes a group to go to the mainland at this time, he will directly join the team, which shows that the literary and art circles in Xiangjiang, at least Jin Yong, are die-hard supporters of the mainland.

It's not a question of whether he is willing or not, nor is it a question of whether Jin Yong dares or not.

But this kind of thing cannot be decided hastily at all, it requires careful consideration.

Taking a stand in advance just for a mainland pirated book seems a bit inconsistent with maximizing interests.