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Rose Eyes Delei is a man in his early 30s. He has a high hairline and thin hair. He wears a round neck shirt and jeans and silver-rimmed glasses. His eyes are small and there are some small lines around his eyes. It's obvious when you laugh, the cheekbones are a little high but the cheeks are sunken, the lips are a little thicker, and the teeth are still quite white.In short, he looks like an ordinary person, the kind you can't find in the crowd.

The man’s name is Liu Qiming, and his job is an ordinary employee in a state-owned enterprise. He writes in his spare time. "Hunting Red" is not his first work. Changed a few and didn't see any improvement. "Hunting Red" is a work he serialized on a small platform three years ago. The response of the first few chapters was mediocre, but some readers have accumulated. When the story was serialized to the second volume, the small platform was acquired by a big website. After the operation of the series, the works of him and other authors on the same platform were also transferred to a platform under the big website to continue serialization. After several rounds of rankings, "Hunting Red" began to become popular like a rocket, and soon reached the The position of No. [-] in the list has never dropped during the serialization period.

"I'm sorry, I'm a bit messy." Liu Qiming smiled and poured tea for Weng Chi and Yan Yu, "I have been inconvenient for the past two days, so I can only entertain you at home. Don't take it seriously."

After Weng Chi and Yan Yu arrived in Liangxi, Weng Chi originally planned to settle down first, and then find a decent and quiet place to have a treat for Rose's tears.He took Yan Yu to the hotel first. On the way, Yan Yu didn't say that he was going home when he arrived in Liangxi. He thought that Yan Yu's home might be far from the city center and it would be inconvenient for him to go home, so he didn't ask any more questions. , directly opened two rooms, Yan Yu stood aside and didn't say anything, just said before entering the room that he would pay the room fee himself.Weng Chi naturally said no, he said that this was considered a business trip, and the money had to be charged to the crew's account, even though they didn't have a crew yet.

Because Cheng Xinyuan had greeted Rose Eyed Tears before, it went smoothly when Weng Chi contacted him, and the person on the other end of the phone was also very enthusiastic, but when making an appointment, Rose Eyes De Tears asked if he could book the meeting place at his house.

It turned out that Rose Eyed Tears slipped and fell when she was walking after dinner a few days ago, and her calf bone fell into a comminuted fracture. After going to the hospital, she is now recuperating at home.

This proposal was of course no problem for Weng Chi, he readily agreed, and when the appointed time came, he and Yan Yu went to buy some gifts and came to the door.

Liu Qiming's house is not big, only [-] or [-] bungalows, with ordinary decoration, the house is neither very clean nor messy, when Weng Chi looked at the shoes in the shoe cabinet when he changed his shoes, he guessed that this person was just like them Is a single dog.

"You are at home by yourself? Then what do you do with your life?" Weng Chi watched Liu Qiming crutches, bouncing back and forth to open the door for them and guide them.

"Oh, my parents also live in this community. They usually come to help me, clean and cook, scold me and so on. Tea and the like are put here after my mother makes it in the morning. Anyway, my daily life Still no problem."

Liu Qiming smiled and pushed his glasses. He said that you are friends of Taoist priests going up the mountain, right?

"Yes." Yan Yu nodded, it seemed that Cheng Xinyuan was a person who traveled the world with only one ID name.

"The purpose of our visit this time is to ask you about the copyright ownership of the book. The second is that Cheng Xinyuan asked us to come and see you. Cheng Xinyuan is a Taoist priest who goes up the mountain. He is a loyal reader of your book. You also had some exchanges, and he felt that he benefited a lot. He always wanted to visit you in person, but he had been abroad before, and he was busy with life and work not long after he returned to China, so he couldn’t come here for the time being. will come for you."

"He is too polite, but I welcome him at any time." Liu Qiming said while taking out a file folder at hand. He took out the contents and showed it to Weng Chi. It turned out to be a contract.

"Because the platform where my novel was first serialized was relatively small, in order to attract authors, the signing conditions given were relatively loose. I signed a work contract with them, with full attendance but no guarantee, because that I never thought that there would be today. I didn’t pay attention to the copyright at the time. Later, I looked at the contract and found that all the copyrights on the platform are electronic copyrights. The copyrights of games, films and other adaptations belong to the authors, and the electronic copyrights are valid for 20 years. "

"Later, the platform was acquired by Yue Reading Group, and their novel website Roundtable signed a new contract with us. They asked for the transfer of all copyrights. I saw that everyone signed it at the time, and I checked other websites, and they were all similar. I chose to sign the contract, but when I signed the contract, I signed from the second volume, and I had already sold the film and television adaptation rights of the first volume to a company."

"Emerald City." Weng Chi said.

"That's right." Liu Qiming took a sip of tea to moisturize his throat and continued, "At that time, I received a private message from the backstage and thought I read it wrong. Someone actually wanted to buy the copyright of my novel. At that time, the person said that my readers had read it. I have many works, he likes this novel very much, and wants to see this work on multiple platforms, he said he wants to make the novel into a TV series, make it into a game, and wants me to authorize it to him."

"You don't know how to adapt the game, right?" Weng Chi asked with a wry smile.

"Yes." Liu Qiming said simply, "There are other copyrights."

Weng Chi and Yan Yu looked at each other, it seems that Emerald City should have taken almost all the copyright of the first volume.

"What about the next few volumes, have they been sold?"

"The next few volumes were produced by Yueshu Books. The copyright editor told me that the game adaptation rights were sold. At that time, I also signed an agency contract and got the money. Regarding film and television, they haven't told me yet, because I just finished it too."

Waiting for the price to be bought, Weng Chi knew in his heart that "Hunting Red" is a piece of fat, how to squeeze every penny of its value is a question that the platform needs to consider carefully now. The current online literature market is not a few years ago, a few years ago In the past, the copyright can be packaged to other companies for the price of cabbage, and then other companies can divide the copyright into subdivisions like pork, and then sell them to the fifth company, the sixth company, the seventh company, and the eighth company. In the end, the works are popular, but the authors and platforms actually take What I got was just a small profit.

Now the big platforms have made it clear that they want to take the lead and cut the pork. They will do it themselves. Besides, Yueshushu is backed by a business empire. They have their own film and television company and their own game company. They are really fat. If you give it to others, you will only eat it yourself.

Weng Chi took advantage of the bathroom time to send a message to his assistant asking him to find out about the copyright situation of "Hunting Red". in the name of.

After coming out of the bathroom, Weng Chi saw Yan Yu and Liu Qiming chatting happily. He leaned over to listen. It turned out that Liu Qiming was talking to Yan Yu about his new book idea. He said he wanted to write that kind of cyberpunk science fiction.

Weng Chi thought it was really good, except that it was not easy to sell, there is nothing wrong with it, but selling games should be okay, if the production can keep up, the finished product will be seen in about [-] years.

"By the way, Taoist went up to the mountain and told me that someone wants to adapt my work into a movie, but I don't know which company or who it is."

"It's him." Weng Chi opened the mobile browser and entered Cheng Xinyuan's name, and he handed the encyclopedia page to Liu Qiming.

"Here, this is Daoist Xiashan himself, an excellent filmmaker, winner of the Silver Bee Award at the film festival."

"He's so awesome...then which story does he want to adapt?"

"He likes your work very much, and has always wanted to adapt your work into a movie, so he entrusted us to inquire about the copyright situation. Now that we have a general understanding, we are going to split up, because your first volume and The following volumes belong to different platforms, we must first determine which copyright can be obtained, and then look at which story to adapt."

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