Chapter 1211 Purchase Copyright
Soon, Guo Yan was immersed in this music feast. Music masters such as Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, and Catherine Stott appeared on the stage one after another, presenting them classic songs one after another, which made the audience mesmerized; the performance After the end, they called the curtain call three times in a row, and the applause gradually stopped.
When she returned home, Guo Yan was still immersed in today's performance, "Qiming, I have seen today what level the world's top musicians are. We are really far behind."
In addition to being excited, Guo Yan began to worry again. His level has reached this level. It must be difficult for Qiming to perform at Carnegie Hall, right?
"Don't worry, although my performance skills may not be able to catch up with Yo-Yo Ma, entering Carnegie Hall is not only for performers." Shen Long is full of confidence, and he has collected so many classic works of later masters , With these things as a foundation, there is no need to worry about not being successful.
"Take a day off tomorrow, and we'll go to work the day after tomorrow." After speaking, Shen Long went back to the bedroom and lay down. Now Guo Yan's mood is still in the shock of the performance, and I'm afraid he won't be able to calm down tomorrow. Under such circumstances There is no way to perform well.
The next day they originally planned to go shopping in Chinatown, but they did not expect to receive a call from Yo-Yo Ma in the morning, saying that they wanted to visit, so they had to change their schedule. Guo Yan hurried to buy some vegetables and planned to entertain Yo-Yo Ma at home. .
At the appointed time, Yo-Yo Ma came over with a gift, accompanied by his manager. Seeing this combination, Shen Long probably guessed the purpose of their trip.
Sure enough, after dinner, Yo-Yo Ma's manager, Ms. Banana, made a request like Shen Long, "Dear Mr. Wang, YO-YO likes your work very much, and he hopes to obtain your authorization to play this Two tunes."
"Of course, I'm also very honored to be recognized by Mr. Ma." Shen Long readily agreed, and he took out these two songs for this reason.
"Then, let's make an appointment, you bring your lawyer, and then we'll sign the contract." Banana thought that it would take some talking to get the copyright, but she didn't expect the other party to agree so simply.
After Yo-Yo Ma and Banana left, Guo Yan was a little curious, "Qiming, why do you need to bring a lawyer to sign the contract? The lawyer's fee is so expensive, why don't we sign it directly?"
"That can't be done. There are too many economic interests involved. The United States is not a domestic country. Everyone can use the songs they have written. As long as you sign this contract, Yo-Yo Ma will release an album in the future, hold music Whatever you do, as long as you use my two songs, you have to give me money!" Copyright income is a steady stream of things, and a classic song can bring huge benefits to the composer. In order to avoid future entanglements,
What are some legal fees?
Then Shen Long popularized the relevant knowledge to Guo Yan. In the United States, songwriters generally have multiple copyrights. The first is mechanical reproduction royalties. Records need to pay the author an income of 0.99 yuan per song, which is also the main income of the song author.
Of course, the sales volume of classical music records is not as good as that of popular music, but the sales cycle of classical music records is longer, and it is also a considerable income accumulated over a long period of time.
In addition, there is also the copyright of public broadcasting. Whether it is in shopping malls, radio stations, or television stations, as long as they broadcast your work, they must pay you.
Simultaneous license copyright, if film producers, TV studios, advertising production companies or other individuals or organizations want to use a musical work in a TV program, film or advertising production, then they must pay the corresponding fee to Obtain authorization; depending on the situation, the cost of each authorization is between several hundred yuan and tens of thousands of yuan.
Mechanical synchronization copyright, when toy companies, game production companies, etc. synchronize music works to toys, games, cards and reproduce them on a large scale, composers can also obtain mechanical synchronization royalties, and charge different fees according to different situations; printing Copyright, if a company wants to print and publish scores, lyrics, and melody notes or sell them on clothes, it needs to pay 15% of the retail price to the author as a royalty.
The share of performance income, if Yo-Yo Ma or others performed the two pieces written by Shen Long in their own concerts, they had to pay royalties to Shen Long according to the scale and income of the concert.
Shen Long reckoned that what Yo-Yo Ma's manager wanted to discuss with him was the copyright sharing of records and performances. There were corresponding regulations on both of these, so there wouldn't be a big problem. Just hire an ordinary lawyer.
With the help of Boris and others, Shen Long found a lawyer who was good at music copyright contracts, went to Yo-Yo Ma's studio according to the agreed time, and successfully signed the contract. The proportion of share is adjusted to the minimum.
This is not just to thank Yo-Yo Ma, more importantly, he knows that only by making his songs known to more people in a short period of time can he build his reputation and bring more benefits.
It's a profit on Yo-Yo Ma's side, but as long as Yo-Yo Ma can get started with these songs quickly, start playing them in concerts, or make them into records for sale, then more people will hear his songs. You can consider the income from public broadcast copyright, synchronization license copyright, and mechanical synchronization copyright.
"Happy cooperation!" Both parties signed their names on the contract, and then picked up the champagne that had been prepared to celebrate. Shen Long took a solid step towards Carnegie Hall.
After the contract was signed, Yo-Yo Ma did not let Shen Long leave immediately. He still needed to continue to communicate with Shen Long about these two pieces of music and how to apply the fingering techniques of the erhu to the performance of the cello.
So Shen Long and Guo Yan stayed in Yo-Yo Ma's studio for a few days. Shen Long came to communicate with Yo-Yo Ma every day and instructed him to play fingering. Sometimes Guo Yan would also join in the communication. Both of them could I feel that Yo-Yo Ma has a lot of interest in traditional Chinese musical instruments.
He even invited Guo Yan and Shen Long to play national instruments such as pipa and erhu for him. An outstanding musician, he will never rest on his laurels. They are all good at absorbing nutrition from different music.
Getting along during this period of time also made their relationship progress a lot, so after the guidance ended, Yo-Yo Ma invited them to visit his home.