Chapter 576 The Trip to Sunnyvale

"Do you care? If MJ owns the copyright to our song."

After deciding to suspend school for another semester, Mariah Carey was naturally very happy. The two had more time to spend together. In New York in the early morning, Song Ya murmured with her arms around her: "I'm fine, only Half of the copyright belongs to Sony Music Copyright Company, and all your songs are there."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, that part of the copyright is either A's or B's, they sell it around..."

Mariah Carey got up and went to the bathroom, "Are you trying to get in the way?"

"Maybe we can put pressure on Sony to keep our part of the rights out of the deal."

Song Ya still has some resistance in her heart that her song should be owned by MJ, especially after she just broke up with Elizabeth Taylor. The copyright of music works is roughly divided into three parts. One is the copyright of lyrics and music works, that is, copyright, which belongs to the songwriter himself.

The second is the copyright of the sound recording, which belongs to the music company that produced and released the record. In the industry, the production company and the distribution company are generally split in half, and the track management right belongs to the distribution company. This is the case for Song Ya’s songs. His A+ records and Sony Columbia Records each account for 50% of all records, and Sony Columbia Records internally transfers the copyright of all other songs except the book to Sony Music Copyright Company. The management right is also at Sony Music Copyright Company.

The third is the public performance right of the recording works, which belongs to the singer who sings the song. However, in practice, disadvantaged singers often give up this right to the production company. Therefore, it often happens that multinational music companies hand over the original song to another party in different countries. A local singer reenacts the situation. But Song Ya and Mariah Carey are not in this case. They both have the right to perform their songs publicly. Other singers must obtain the consent of the two if they want to cover the song. This is not the case for non-profit private covers, but the cover is strictly speaking. Infringing the copyright of the recording works in the second part is also not acceptable, the accompaniment has to be made by oneself.

MJ's deal with Sony Columbia Records was for the second installment.

"What are you going to do?" Mariah Carey asked.

"I don't know, I haven't figured it out yet, Daniel is following up, and he will notify me when there is a suitable opportunity." Song Ya replied.

"It's nice to have Daniel as president," she said.

Indeed, if the president was still Motura, the two of them would probably have been suppressed to the point of difficulty, so they are not as comfortable as they are now.

Mariah Carey turned on the shower head, and the sound of rushing water came out, "I just want you formy own,,, All I want for Christmas, Is youuuuuu..." and began to sing in the bathroom again.

"Christmas songs?" Song Ya frowned: "Didn't you reject this album?"

"Who told you to have a baby with another woman? I was so angry that I agreed to Daniel when I returned to New York. I wanted to forget you with music, hum!" She continued to sing: "I just want to have you by my side, beyond Make my dreams come true as much as you can imagine, all I want for Christmas is you, only you..."

"Wow, this is not forgetting my words, it's not right." Song Ya teased.

"Walter and I wrote it together. It only took fifteen minutes, but Walter is not satisfied with the accompaniment yet. He is changing it."

"Uh... alright."

"When does it snow in Chicago?" she asked.

"November will definitely fall, sometimes even earlier."

"Then I'll take the MV to Chicago to shoot? It should be released before Christmas, right?"

"Okay, sure."

Song Ya was relieved that she had something to do. After spending a few sweet days in New York, he bid farewell to his fiancée who started recording work, and continued to embark on the hard work of dancing out the original soundtrack album of my life and the release of the movie.

"Long time no see, Jeffrey."

He will also take care of business along the way, for example, after finishing activities near the Chinese community in San Francisco,

He's in Sunnyvale, and it's time for a definitive end to his relationship with Palm.

"Hello, APLUS." Jeffrey Hawkins welcomed him, Jimmy and others into the office.

"You are really full of life here." Song Ya sat down and praised, Palm has completely come out of the haze of the failure of the PDA project, and now the company has expanded, mainly specializing in software development and licensing services for other large companies.

"For you." Jeffrey Hawkins handed Song Ya a newly released HP 200LX, a horizontal clamshell PDA with a black and white LCD screen on the top cover, and a PC keyboard similar to a conventional layout directly below it.

"Wow."

Song Ya feels that this thing is very close to the one that appeared in the original WhereIsTheLove MV. Palm gave up the hardware plan. Is HP the real successful company in the original world line? "Looks like I'm going to increase my holdings of HP stock later." He laughed.

"Some of the functional modules use our software." Jeffrey Hawkins taught him to try out those functions.

"Not bad……"

Song Ya didn't want to play with these things, and after a few perfunctory compliments, she asked straightforwardly: "Jeffrey, I heard from Jimmy that you want to sell the company?"

"Well……"

Jeffrey Hawkins glanced at Jimmy next to him with some disgust, "I don't want to hide from you APLUS, that's right, I have reached a consensus with the management on this matter."

"Why don't you continue to attract investment? With our current development situation, I can easily help you attract the next round of investors, and I can continue to follow up myself at a relatively generous price." Song Ya asked.

Jeffrey Hawkins shook his head, "I've decided that I'm the right person to immerse myself in technology, worrying about profitability and trivial company management has exhausted me physically and mentally for the past two years, so...don't worry about APLUS, I and the management will sell the shares After that, I will continue to stay in this company and continue to serve the interests of you and other investors."

"Don't be so hypocritical Jeffrey, Xerox's lawsuit scares you." Jimmy half leaned on the sofa and sneered.

"There are some factors."

Jeffrey Hawkins did not refute, "You can use your investor's power APLUS, and you will have the priority to match the offer after we have negotiated with the next buyer. I like investors like you, but I don't Love this nasty lawyer you sent." He pointed at Jimmy, who seemed to be annoying him a lot lately.

"There's no room for change?" Song Ya asked.

"Basically nothing, and the results will be out before the end of the year, and I will inform you at that time, after all, I am the founder and controlling party of Palm." Jeffrey Hawkins said: "Trust me, your investment will be rich. return."

"so be it."

Now that the opponent has already had a showdown, Song Ya doesn't want to entangle any more, "I'll wait for your good news, as soon as possible."

"do not worry."

In order to dance out the movie project of my life, Song Ya’s investment in the technology industry in 1994 was lacklustre, but this year’s Silicon Valley can be described as changing with each passing day. Countless start-up companies are spinning and dying, and the industry is constantly creating new technology heroes and millionaires. , which made him feel like he picked up the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon afterwards.

In addition, he didn't get any new predictions from the apocalypse. Those new songs basically didn't involve MVs of future technology products, or there were no MVs at all. New computers, notebooks and mobile phones appeared like dancing out of my life.

Oh, by the way, the MV of the symphony BabaYetu is produced using full 3D technology, so companies related to 3D image production technology may be able to observe it, but there is SGI, a hardware giant in the industry, and Hollywood related special effects production companies that use 3D technology They are all in the hands of powerful people such as Jobs, James Cameron, etc., and they can't afford them or can't afford them.

Leaving Palm, he continued to turn around in Sunnyvale. He chatted with Mark Anderson at Mosaic Web Browser Company, and after learning that their first official product would be launched in October, he came to the location of the American music website.

Dilai built a large and simple office building here, which was empty. Song Ya could feel the chilly draft when passing through the hall on the first floor. The second floor is where the staff work, most of them are women. Slowly compare paper text input in front of the computer, and many people still use the two-finger Zen used on old-fashioned typewriters.

"not bad?"

Accompanied by Delay, he visited the website, and the typesetting was also very simple, but the network database function of American Music Magazine was basically realized.

"It's not bad, the land here is rising all the way." Dilai thought he was asking about the land price.

"I said website."

"Uh, basically, the number of views is very small, but the click-through rate of the gossip column is much higher than that of regular content." Delay showed him.

Originally, there were very few people who subscribed to the American Music Magazine, and Song Ya had nothing to complain about. Most of the content of the gossip column was provided by Louise, a subsidiary Hollywood tabloid, and they would regularly send out less aggressive articles. , and then enter it into the network from here.

Song Ya always felt that something was wrong, so she clicked on a touting article that danced to the box office of my life and asked, "Can't I add a comment function below the article?"

"BBS?"

"Yes, BBS type of forum." Song Ya said.

"I'll ask, call Miss Yan in."

Dilai asked the secretary to call in a Chinese woman in her twenties, with long black hair and no makeup. The blue shirt on her upper body was the cheapest style. She was very simple but unexpectedly beautiful. The room is quite heroic and feels very comfortable.

"Miss Yan, Hong Yan? Or Yan Hong, she is a doctoral student at the State University of New York..." Delay introduced.

"Hello, can I call you Yanhong? What is the exact word? Yanzi's Yan?"

"Yes, Mr. APLUS, the swallow of the swallow, the red of the red."

The two shook hands, and Song Ya probed in Chinese. Unexpectedly, the other party's Mandarin was very standard, but his speech and behavior were a little funny, as if there was a robot standing in front of him.

"The boss wants to add a comment function under each gossip article, is it easy to implement?" Delay asked.

"It's ok, that's all it takes..." Yan Hong immediately began to operate on the keyboard, explaining the technique.

"Don't be cautious, Ms. Yan, I'm just asking, I don't want to hear the specific details." Song Ya smelled the faint fragrance of shower gel on her body, and smiled with interest as she looked at her. She also had a great figure, tall and with perfect curves.

"Uh...Okay." The other party withdrew his hand, blushing slightly.

"What exactly do you do in my company?" Song Ya asked.

"Data Retrieval."

"Miss Yanhong is an international student from Huaguo, and she works here as a short-term summer job. She has already obtained the Office of Dow Jones." Di Lai helped explain: "Some users reported that it is inconvenient to search for previous articles of American Music. Ask her to help add a module to search the database with keywords, she is an expert in this field."

"Short-term work? Does Ms. Yan Hong intend to stay and work in our company?" Song Ya continued to ask in Mandarin.

"Uh, sorry, I've already talked with the other side..."

"Whoa, what a pity, Dow Jones ah? Nice job."