Chapter 25: Copyright sale
London, it feels great for Zhuke.
Although the air quality in the early morning is average, there is no foggy picture in the movie. Zhuke, Victor, and Conti arrived in London at around 10 o'clock last night. They did not go to the BBC Broadcasting Company. Instead, they stayed in a hotel arranged by them, which was still a five-star hotel.
壕!
That’s right, the BBC Broadcasting Company gave Zhu Ke the feeling that he is rich, quite rich!
This is not only reflected in the fact that they have arranged for the three of Zhuke to arrange a five-star hotel, and even the Wald Pictures employees who came to contact ten days ago also live in this five-star hotel, and the expenses are also BBC take full charge of.
"The BBC is really rich. I won't slaughter them. Now it seems impossible to justify."
After Zhuke got up, he looked at the exquisite and rich breakfast and couldn't help but sigh at the two Victors. The breakfast is really great, at least Zhuke has not eaten such a high-priced breakfast in his two lifetimes.
Victor smiled and said: "Boss, it is true that the BBC has money, but it is mainly because we are citizens of the United States."
Kandi cut a piece of bread and continued: "This is true. After all, people have been arrogant. Facing the United States, they always have a natural sense of superiority. They cover our room fee, but they show their hard power. ."
The three of them were enjoying the food while chatting about the next copyright cooperation.
It didn’t take long.
The staff of Wald Films, who had arrived in the UK ten days in advance, came to Zucker.
"Boos, how did you rest last night?"
Her name is Martha Hopkins. She is 40 years old. She is a middle-aged woman. She is the manager of the legal department and accounting department of Wald Pictures. She is a very capable woman.
"Very good, it's perfect, I don't want to go back to Los Angeles anymore." Zhu Ke laughed.
"Oh! Boss, if you say that, then all the employees in our company will lose a good boss." Martha laughed.
"Hahaha, Martha, I will say that our company is the most interesting for you."
Zhu Ke has always been not stingy about complimenting employees, and he doesn't spend any money anyway.
A hearty breakfast ended in a pleasant conversation among the four.
9 am.
The four Zhuke arrived at the BBC Broadcasting Company on time and negotiated with the relevant person in charge of "Teletubbies" on copyright issues.
The preliminary negotiations went smoothly and the atmosphere was very friendly, but in the end, there was a huge deviation in the excessive price of copyright.
The BBC said: It is required to obtain the permanent copyright of "Teletubbies", a one-time payment of 1.5 million pounds, and the contract does not involve any peripheral profit and advertising sharing.
In other words, Zhuke got 1.5 million pounds, which has nothing to do with Teletubbies.
How does Zhuke accept this?
The cost of filming "Teletubbies" is not high. It costs 5 to 7 million pounds to die. The main point is the BBC broadcast platform.
As soon as "Teletubbies" was broadcast, it occupied the viewership of British children's channels; not to mention the achievements of advertising, just the annual sales of related books and toys are extremely amazing. Moreover, its subsequent sales of film and television rights have been sold throughout Europe and the world. The authorized price alone has exceeded 200 million pounds.
Such a huge and sweet fat, how could Zhu Ke be willing to only get 1.5 million pounds?
is too bully!
Annoying!
"Mr. Wald, you have to know that we are the BBC Broadcasting Corporation, and we are not afraid of litigation. We can broadcast directly after the production is completed." The BBC negotiator said slowly.
His implication is very clear.
If you don't accept it, you have to accept it.
The big deal is an international lawsuit.
International lawsuits are not generally cumbersome, time-consuming and labor-intensive, and cost a lot of money. Even if Zhu Ke wins the lawsuit, he may not get much money.
"Ha ha!"
Zhu Ke looked at the representative of the BBC and sneered: "Yes, you are not afraid of litigation, but we are not afraid, and I also have money. You may not know that I made more than 800 profits from the stock market in just one day a few days ago. Ten thousand U.S. dollars."
"Uh......"
Several BBC negotiators were instantly dumb.
Before, they didn't know the news at all. After all, they are "arrogant" British guys, and Wald Pictures is nothing more than a Hollywood company, and the status of the two is completely unequal.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, let me add, my client, Mr. Zhuke Wald, is a wealthy American citizen and a young man who is not stingy in spending money. If you have money, you will be impulsive. Well, you can skip our copyright and force the platform to broadcast, but I think your company does not want to trigger a tsunami of public opinion before the broadcast of "Teletubbies"."
Kangdi is Kangdi, and his words are quite deadly.
Tsunami of public opinion!
Zuke is completely capable of lifting it up!
Because although the Yankees and the British have a lot of cooperation in the government, they can be said to look down upon each other between the people of the two countries.
British thinks: "You America, we used to be our colony, our territory, what do you have to worry about."
Yankee thinks: "We are the largest country in the world. You British people have long been dusk yesterday. What are you so proud of."
Not much else, as long as Zhuke is willing to spend money, he can definitely set off a storm of public opinion. This is simply an unacceptable reality for the face-saving John Bull.
......
The next negotiations went smoothly. It is nothing more than the sharing of peripheral profit sharing and the sharing of copyright secondary authorization.
Now, the person in charge of the BBC is willing to give Wald Pictures a share, first because they have seen Zhu Ke’s financial resources;
Second, they don’t want to go to court and face the storm of public opinion either;
Third, and the most important point, although they also value the future prospects of "Teletubbies", they are not traversers after all, and they do not know the future profit of "Teletubbies" at all. UU看书www.uukanshu.com is far Beyond their imagination.
In the following days, several negotiations were conducted again.
finally reached a contract.
Contents of the contract: 1. The BBC company paid a lump-sum payment of £1 million as a copyright fee;
2. The second authorization of copyright, including the subsequent sale of film and television rights to other regions or countries, Zhuke's Wald Pictures, enjoys 10% of the authorization fee;
3. In the DVD and video tape market released by "Teletubbies", Zhu Ke also enjoys 15% of the profit share;
4. Its peripheral licenses, including but not limited to toys, key holders, clothing, books, and other 18 licenses, are divided into 8% of the profit.
and many more.
This licensing agreement, in general, is satisfactory for both the BBC and Zucker.
The authorization is completed. Zhu Ke wanted to know about the situation of "Harry Potter", but found that it was not on the market, and time was not allowed, because the company still had a lot of things waiting for Zhu Ke to deal with.
......
London International Airport.
Zhuke and several people are waiting for the flight in the waiting room.
"Jonathan Nolan, stop for me! Mom said, after arriving in England, everything will be my own."
A vigorous, slightly angry and helpless voice came into Zhuke's ears.
Airport, there is a lot of people talking, Zhuke won't care.
But!
When Zhuke turned his head to look over, he was surprised to find that he had actually seen these two young people talking.
I have seen you in the last life!
The second part of "" is a little later, sorry everyone. Today, the minister was unlucky, and the vegetables were cut to his hand, and the blood was rushing.
