Chapter 25 Copyright Sale
London, it feels great to Zucker.
Although the air quality in the early morning was average, there was no foggy scene in the movie. Zhuke, Victor and Condy arrived in London around 10 o'clock last night, so they did not go to the BBC Broadcasting Corporation, but checked into a hotel they arranged, which was a five-star hotel.
trench!
That’s right, the BBC broadcaster gives Zucker the feeling that he is rich and quite rich!
This is not only reflected in the fact that they had to arrange a five-star hotel for Zhuke and the other two, but even the Wald Pictures employees who came to meet ten days ago were staying in this five-star hotel, and the BBC was solely responsible for the fees.
"The BBC is so rich. If I don't kill them, it seems unreasonable now."
After Zucker got up, looking at the exquisite and hearty breakfast, he couldn't help but sigh at the Victor and the other two. The breakfast was really great. At least Zucker had never eaten such a high-priced breakfast in his two lives.
Victor smiled and said, "Boss, it's true that the BBC is rich, but it's mainly because we are citizens of America."
Condy cut a piece of bread and continued: "This is true. After all, their ancestors have been generous. When facing America, they always have a natural sense of superiority. They have included our room rates, which is nothing more than showing their hard power."
The three of them enjoyed the food while chatting about the next copyright cooperation.
Not long after.
The staff of Wald Film, who arrived in the UK ten days in advance, came to Zucker.
"Boos, how did you take a break last night?"
Her name is Martha Hopkins, 40 years old, is a middle-aged woman who serves as the manager of the legal department and accounting department of Wald Films. She is a very capable woman.
"Very good, it's perfect. I don't want to go back to Los Angeles anymore." Zucker smiled.
"oh! Boss, if you say that, then all the employees of our company will lose a good boss." Martha smiled.
"Hahaha, Martha, I just said that our company is the most interesting thing to you."
Zhu Ke has always been generous in praising employees, but he doesn't spend any money anyway.
A hearty breakfast ended with a pleasant conversation between the three.
9:00 a.m.
Zhu Ke and the other four arrived at the BBC Broadcasting Corporation on time and started negotiations with the relevant person in charge of "Aerial Baby" on copyright issues.
The early negotiations went smoothly and the atmosphere was very friendly, but there was a huge deviation in the final overpricing of copyrights.
The BBC said: It requires permanent copyright to "Aerial Baby" and pay 1.5 million pounds in one lump sum, and the contract does not involve any peripheral profits and advertising share.
In other words, Zucker got 1.5 million pounds and had nothing to do with "Aerial Baby".
How did Zhuke accept this?
The shooting cost of "Aerial Baby" is not high, and it will only cost 5 million to 7 million pounds if it is over. The main point is that of the BBC playback platform.
Once "Aerial Baby" was broadcast, it dominated the ratings of the children's channels in the UK; there is no need to mention the advertising achievements, the sales of related books and toys every year are extremely amazing. Moreover, it subsequently sold the copyright of film and television to Europe and the world, and the authorized price alone exceeded 200 million pounds.
How could Zhuke be willing to get only 1.5 million pounds for such a huge and sweet fat?
It's too sissy to bully people!
Is it angry or not!
"Mr. Wald, you have to know that we are BBC Broadcasting Corporation and are not afraid of lawsuits. We can play it directly after the production is completed." The BBC negotiator said slowly.
His implication is very clear.
You have to accept it if you don't accept it.
At worst, you can fight an international lawsuit.
International lawsuits are not ordinary cumbersome, and they are time-consuming and labor-intensive, and require a lot of money. Even if Zhu Ke wins the case in the end, he may not get much money.
"hehe!"
Zhuke looked at the BBC representative and sneered: "Yes, you are not afraid of lawsuits, but we are not afraid, and I have money too. You may not know that I made more than $8 million from the stock market in just one day in the past few days."
"Well......"
Several BBC negotiators were instantly stunned.
Before, they had no idea about this news. After all, they were "proud" British guys, and Wald Pictures was just a Hollywood last-rate company, and the two had completely different statuses.
"Ahem... I'll add that my client, Mr. Juke Wald, is a financially-powered American citizen and a young man who is not stingy in spending money. Young, rich, and impulsively. OK, you can skip our copyright and force the platform to play, but I think your company does not want to trigger a tsunami of public opinion before "SpongeBob SquarePants" is broadcast."
Kangdi is Kangdi, and his words are quite deadly.
A tsunami of public opinion!
Zhuke is fully capable of lifting it up!
Because although the Americans and the British cooperate more in the government, they can be said to look down on each other among the people of the two countries.
The British believed: "You America were our colonies and our territory before, so what are you going to show off?"
The Americans think: "We are the world's largest country. You British guys have been dusk yesterday. What's there to be proud of?"
Without further ado, as long as Zhuke is willing to spend money, he will definitely set off a storm of public opinion. This is an unacceptable reality for John Niu, who is desperate for face.
......
The following negotiations went a lot smoother. It was nothing more than the sharing of profit sharing and secondary copyright authorization in the surrounding areas.
Now, the BBC leader is willing to share Wald Pictures's share of the first reason is that they have seen Zucker's financial resources;
Second, they don’t want to sue or face public opinion storms;
Third and most importantly, although they also attach great importance to the future prospects of "Aerial Baby", they are not time travelers after all, and they have no idea that the future profits of "Aerial Baby" will far exceed their imagination.
In the following days, several negotiations were held again.
Finally, the contract was reached.
Contract content: 1. BBC company pays 1 million pounds in one lump sum as copyright usage fee;
2. Secondary authorization of copyright, including subsequent film and television copyrights sold to other regions or countries, Zhuke's Wald Pictures enjoys 10% of the authorization fee;
3. In the DVD and videotape market released by "Aerial Baby", Zhuke also enjoys 15% of his profit share;
4. Its peripheral authorization, including but not limited to 8% of the profits of 18 authorizations, including toys, keys, clothing, books, etc.
etc.
In general, this authorization contract is in a satisfactory category for both the BBC and Zucker.
The authorization was completed. Zuckerburn wanted to learn about the situation of "Harry Potter", but found that it was not on sale and time was not allowed, because the company still had a lot of things waiting for Zucker and his friends to deal with.
......
London International Airport.
Zhu Ke and his friends were waiting for the flight in the waiting room.
"Jonathan Nolan, stop me! Mom said that after arriving in England, everything will be listened to me."
A powerful and slightly angry and helpless voice came into Zhuke's ears.
As for the airport, there are so many people and Zucker doesn't care.
But!
When Zucker turned his head and looked over, he was surprised to find that he had really seen these two young men talking.
I've seen it in my previous life!
""The second one is a little later, sorry for everyone. Today, the minister was in trouble and cut the vegetables and was bleeding.
Chapter completed!