Chapter 737 Copyright Recovery

Although Barron did not directly ask John Smith what he was going to do, I believe he was not so stupid as to find someone to kill Bartlan Rosario, the criminal who was instructed to kill the hospital nurse by injecting an overdose of drugs, in the Maryland prison.

This method seems to be the most direct. After all, once Bartlan Rosario is dead, the prosecutors will not be able to link the case to John Smith.

But at the same time, this approach will also be regarded as a provocation to the prosecutors, and committing murder in such a heavily guarded prison, although it is not impossible, but it requires instructing others to do this dirty work, and then the prosecutors will easily continue to trace the murderer of Bartlan Rosario...

And at the beginning, John Smith was not so stupid. He did not go directly to find Bartlan Rosario to kill him. With his class, it was not so easy to contact such a person.

At that time, he found Bartlan Rosario through a broker similar to a "middleman" to kill him.

Therefore, the safest thing for John Smith is to cut off the connection between him and Batran Rosario, that is, to shut up the "middleman" forever.

And this matter itself is not so dangerous for John Smith. After all, the caregiver who directly attacked his eldest brother David Smith's maintenance equipment and caused David's accidental death has died without any evidence. Even if the prosecution suspects other members of the Sinclair family, even John Smith, who has benefited the most, there is not much evidence.

It is even reasonable to say that another family member wanted to kill the caregiver in order to avenge the eldest brother who died because of the caregiver's mistake.

Then again, didn't David Smith's accident at that time make John Smith's other brothers and sisters suspicious?

Obviously, the biggest beneficiary of this matter is John Smith, and it is because of David's death that John finally gained control of the family trust.

But there were not many such voices at that time. This is the winner and loser. If the other party really has any evidence, then it is another matter. There is no strong evidence pointing to John Smith in this matter. Suspicion alone is not convincing. Instead, it will offend John, who currently holds power, to death. Why bother?

That is why Barron did not care too much about this matter afterwards and let John Smith solve it by himself.

He did not need to get involved in this matter too much.

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"Dear, don't worry, I will try my best to persuade my sister."

Lydia Hearst has been with Barron these two days. At present, among Barron's women, only Amanda Hearst took the child away from him after giving birth to him.

Lydia also knew that Barron had always been concerned about this, so she comforted him from time to time.

This is not that Lydia is really selfless-of course, in this regard, Lydia is much better than her cousin Amanda.

But Lydia also has her own little thoughts. In terms of all aspects, Lydia was born in the Hearst family, and both her appearance and figure are extremely outstanding. With these conditions combined, she is very competitive among the socialites in America.

But these are for other men. When facing Barron, Lydia Hearst is not so confident.

Barron is too attractive to her, making it difficult for Lydia to give up. Therefore, she believes that if she chooses to stay with Barron, she and her cousin Amanda together will be the most ideal result in the competition with other women.

That is why during this period, Lydia always tries her best to help Barron in the middle to ease the relationship with Amanda.

In fact, if Amanda Hearst can be more ambitious like Ivanta, then it will be better for Barron to handle the relationship with her.

In this case, although Barron cannot give Amanda a nominal marriage, as a partner, Barron can help her better manage the Hearst family's business, and even based on the Hearst Group, through mergers and acquisitions, make it one of the best media groups in the United States again, which has a lot of room for operation.

But the problem is that although Amanda is the heir to the Hearst family, she does not have too many ambitions in her career, but has greater ambitions in love.

Her only hope is to be able to enter into a marriage with Barron openly.

But for now, this is what Barron can't give her the most.

Therefore, it is difficult for the two to resolve the contradiction under such circumstances.

In Amanda Hearst's view, the only obstacle between her and Barron before was Barron's marriage to Bonnie.

But now that Barron has divorced, the other party still has no intention of giving her a name. Thinking of the compromises she made for him before, Amanda must feel aggrieved or even resentful, which is understandable.

After all, with her background, if she chooses anyone else, this situation will not occur.

But in the final analysis, in terms of external conditions, Barron's background, wealth and power, plus his own conditions - young, handsome and talented, and even his ability to learn knowledge is so strong... If you haven't met such an ideal lover before, it's okay. After getting along with each other, including Amanda and Lydia, compared with other men they have met, it is simply impossible to miss.

"We are currently negotiating with Sony to try to recover the Spider-Man copyright in their hands..."

Annika Dawson, CEO of Blue Valley Capital, said to Barron:

"Sony's situation is not good now. Their head office is even preparing to sell two headquarters buildings due to financial problems, but it seems that they are still wavering about selling the Spider-Man copyright. However, our minimum goal is to get the Spider-Man image authorization."

Previously, Marvel-MGM Group has taken back the copyrights of X-Men, Fantastic Four and Mutants from 20th Century Fox, and now they are preparing to shoot the latest "X-Men" movie.

The most important Marvel superhero still out there is Spider-Man.

Although, as Annika said, Sony is not doing well at present due to the subprime mortgage crisis and the recent economic downturn in Japan and South Korea, as well as the fierce competition in its main business of consumer electronics, and its performance is not as good as before.

But even so, Sony is still very cautious about Marvel-MGM's recovery of Spider-Man's copyright.

After all, the CEO of Sony at this time is Howard Stringer, who was born in Wales, England, and later went to the United States. He participated in the Vietnam War and was the first foreign head of the Sony Empire.

And before becoming the CEO of Sony, Howard Stringer was the CEO of Sony's American branch. It was under his leadership that Sony took the copyright of Spider-Man from Marvel.

At the end of the last century, Marvel was in a very bad situation and was on the verge of bankruptcy.

In order to recover funds as soon as possible, Marvel put almost all of their superhero copyrights, including X-Men, Fantastic Four, and Hulk, on the negotiation table, and prepared to try to sell these copyrights in a package for $25 million.

At that time, Sony Pictures had always been very interested in Spider-Man, so in the negotiations with Marvel, they said that they only wanted Spider-Man and did not want to buy other superhero IPs - after all, at that time, there were very few successful superhero movies adapted from comics, and they were not optimistic, and Spider-Man was the most well-known among them.

After a period of negotiation, Marvel lowered the price again and offered Sony a package of copyrights for $20 million...

Sony was still unwilling to acquire other Marvel copyrights except Spider-Man.

In the end, the two parties finally reached an agreement, and Sony obtained the film production rights of Spider-Man for $7 million.

According to the sales agreement, Sony obtained the film shooting rights of Spider-Man and all related characters, and all the film revenue belonged to Sony.

The additional condition was that Sony had to launch a Spider-Man movie every 5 years, otherwise the copyright would automatically return to Marvel.