Chapter 198 The First Copyright Dispute
"Still using Zhu Yawen?"
After hearing the candidates Xu Kun was going to recommend, Chen Xuebin immediately frowned.
This time, Old Chen has upgraded his weapons. Last time, Xu Kun was the producer and he was the production director. This time, both of them have the title of producer, which can be regarded as the fulfillment of Old Chen's long-cherished wish.
Seeing Chen Xuebin's dissatisfaction, Xu Kun showed him the "confession" and said, "I'm really tired of Cheng Rijie being chased by this guy. Anyway, he has already surrendered. I'm thinking of learning from Tang Ren and using him to stir up some heat. Besides, he was the second male lead last time and the third male lead this time. Anyone with a discerning eye can see what this means."
"How can there be so many discerning people?"
Chen Xuebin shook his head: "If you do this, others will see it and say that betrayal is no big deal and that it can be solved with a few words of comfort."
"So what do you mean?"
"It's not impossible to forgive him, but we have to let people see the price he paid for betraying us - don't worry about it, I'll talk to him!"
As Chen Xuebin spoke, he called Zhu Yawen, who was working hard to clean the car outside, in and said coldly: "It is said that knowing one's mistakes is the best way to improve. If you truly repent, we will definitely give you a chance."
Zhu Yawen was about to be happy when he heard this, but then he heard Chen Xuebin say, "But there is also an old saying that goes 'A journey of a thousand miles tests a horse's strength, and time reveals a person's true character'. In just a few days, who can guarantee that you are truly repentant?!"
Zhu Yawen's smile froze. He looked at Xu Kun who was silent beside him, then at Chen Xuebin in front of him, and said awkwardly, "Producer Chen, how can I prove that I am truly repentant?"
"You are a junior now, right?"
Chen Xuebin first held up three fingers, then retracted one after thinking about it, and held up two fingers and said, "Anyway, you won't have to go to school very often when you're a senior. From now on, until one year after you graduate, don't expect to film in these two years. Be a follower and bag carrier for Xu Kun first.
If the performance in the past two years is good enough, then we will forget about it from now on. If we give up halfway, hehe... we will just pretend that nothing happened. "
Zhu Yawen's face changed several times when he heard this. He hesitated and was about to speak, but Chen Xuebin raised his hand to stop him and said, "You don't have to rush to make a decision. Go back first and think about it carefully. If you think it's appropriate, come again tomorrow. If you think we are going too far, then just break up and don't bother each other in the future."
After saying that, without giving Zhu Yawen a chance to react, he walked over, opened the door, and made a "please" gesture.
After Zhu Yawen left in despair, Xu Kun shook his head and said, "When it comes to decisiveness, it depends on you, Brother Chen."
"Shit."
Chen Xuebin said, "If he brings a knife to me, let alone forgive him, I will happily agree to let him carry his bag for two years - you are soft-hearted, but I am hard-hearted."
After a pause, he couldn't help but complain again: "Sometimes I feel that you are older than me, and you look at people of the same age as an old man looks at a half-grown child, with a sense of forgiving others when you can."
Chen Xuebin was right. Adding up his past and present lives, isn’t Xu Kun nearly fifty years old?
Moreover, he was used to all kinds of betrayal in prison, and he really felt that it was not a big deal for a young man to say something dirty.
But what Chen Xuebin said also makes sense. Now that he doesn't have three lives to back him up, he still has to establish his authority. He can't let others follow his example and go against the will of Heaven.
Anyway, no matter what, Zhu Yawen definitely could not play the third male lead. Xu Kun thought about it and decided to recommend Li Donghan, with whom he had worked in "The Young Emperor".
Li Donghan is Deng Chao's junior at the Central Academy of Drama. The young man is tall, handsome, sunny and cheerful, just right for the role of Meng Wei - of course, Xu Kun only recommended him for an audition and would not make a direct decision.
These are minutiae.
The purpose of Xu Kun's visit to Chen Xuebin was to have him sound out luxury brand agents in Beijing to see if they needed product placement - they didn't have to pay for the advertising, they could just provide some limited edition luxury goods and have the crew use them and return them.
"This……"
Chen Xuebin shook his head after hearing this: "If you were Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Yimou, or Chen Kaige, you wouldn't even have to show up in person. Once you spread the word, a lot of people would rush to work with you. But with our crew..."
"Then we'll just rent it for the money. It has to be high-end anyway."
Xu Kun had also made preparations for both scenarios. If he could get it for free, that would be the best. If not, he would pay to rent it.
"The car is easy to deal with, but the rest..."
Chen Xuebin thought for a moment and said, "Why don't you ask Lao Jia and see if his coal boss friends can lend us the luxury goods they bought."
"This... I'm afraid Old Jia doesn't have the time to care about this. LeTV is preparing to sue Tudou, and he's been very busy lately." Jia Yueting originally planned to wait until the country tightened its Internet copyright regulations before taking out LeTV's copyright library as a killer weapon.
But recently he saw that Tudou copied everything from LeTV, even the content was taken from LeTV, and it also gained a lot of traffic from it.
However, LeTV, because it focused on genuine videos, was gradually overtaken by Tudou in terms of content diversity.
This made Jia Xuesen very anxious. He sent a lawyer's letter to Tudou two days ago, demanding that Tudou stop the infringement, otherwise he would take the other party to court.
I thought this would definitely make Tudou lose its composure, but after the news spread, public opinion on the Internet suddenly began to blame LeTV one-sidedly.
The general argument is: If LeTV is really awesome, then buy all the film and television resources and provide them to everyone for free. Now there are only so many resources on your website, and you want to kill the website that actually provides resources to everyone. What is your intention? !
Needless to say, the other party must have also hired online trolls.
Even if Jia lets LeTV's self-media launch an all-out attack, it is still a step too late, and most netizens prefer to get things for free and don't like to hear you seriously explain copyright laws.
Therefore, online public opinion has always been unfriendly to LeTV, and LeTV's traffic has also declined.
Old Jia is very angry now, and Xu Kun doesn't want to offend him.
"Then I'll go ask someone first."
After hearing the whole story, Chen Xuebin had no choice but to give up the shortcut of following Lao Jia. Fortunately, he had some connections with coal bosses, so he was not completely clueless.
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the other side.
Zhu Yawen returned to school in a daze and was intercepted by Pan Yutong, a rich second-generation junior schoolmate.
"how's it going?"
Seeing Zhu Yawen like this, Pan Yutong asked anxiously and distressedly: "Did Xu Kun reject you? What did he say? Did he curse at you?"
Zhu Yawen shook his head and sighed, then repeated Chen Xuebin's request.
"Isn't this bullying an honest person?!"
Pan Yutong immediately became angry and grabbed Zhu Yawen's hand and said, "At worst, we won't ask him for help. I don't believe that without Xu the Butcher, we will have to eat hairy pigs!"
Zhu Yawen smiled bitterly and said, "The problem now is that if Brother Kun doesn't forgive me, I won't be able to move forward in this circle..."
"Then you should stay out of this circle!"
Pan Yutong said without thinking: "After graduation, I will ask my father to help you find a good job - even though he doesn't let me be with you now, in fact, as long as I lose my temper, my father will definitely compromise! Even if he doesn't compromise, I can still make money to support you..."
As she was talking to herself, her hand was suddenly shaken away by Zhu Yawen.
Pan Yutong stopped and looked at Zhu Yawen in confusion, only to find that the other's face was full of coldness, shame and anger.
"What, what's wrong?"
Pan Yutong asked in confusion.
"nothing!"
Zhu Yawen gritted his teeth, suppressed the unhappiness in his heart, took a deep breath, and said solemnly: "I have decided to agree to this condition. I will regard these two years as a training for myself. Remember it!"
It's fine for him to secretly eat his girlfriend's soft rice, but it's better for him to live under someone else's roof and act according to the Pan family's wishes...
Then he would rather endure two years of humiliation and oppression from Xu Kun.
At least by doing this, you will have a chance to succeed in the future.
(End of this chapter)
