Chapter 233 0233, Copyright Issues (1)

Recently, the latest masterpiece launched by Youxianqi Company and Yunfeng, the basketball-themed youth comic "Slam Dunk" was launched and updated on the Youxianqi FM website. It quickly swept the comic field in a very short time. It has exceeded 10 million readings in just over a month, and has won the love of a large number of fans, becoming one of the most popular annual comics among the current hot comics.

In addition, Yunfeng created a song "I Want to Say I Love You Loud" that echoes the theme and protagonist of "Slam Dunk", which has triggered a wide range of discussions on the entire network.

Many netizens praised that they haven't seen such extreme comics and passionate songs for a long time, and they couldn't help staying up late to call and urge for updates!

However...

In the editorial department of Panda Chinese Network, the editors had no time to enjoy the touching and memories brought by the comic "Slam Dunk".

For almost a month, they were either in meetings or on the way to meetings.

In the second half of the year, a novel website called "Squirrel Deer" rose rapidly, and its market share even exceeded Shengshi Chinese Network and Tiantian Chinese Network, catching up with Panda Chinese Network.

Squirrel Deer focuses on two-dimensional time travel, cute harem, anime novels, anime fan fiction, anime novels, and anime fan fiction. Its representative works include "I Discovered the Secrets of My Sisters After Traveling Through Time", "My Years as the God of Death in MD", and "MD: I Possessed the Tin Man", all of which have first orders of more than 300,000.

"Fan fiction" has always been a niche category in Panda Chinese Network, but now it has become popular with Squirrel Deer, catching them off guard.

So, since the middle of last month, they have been holding meetings to discuss countermeasures.

On this day, the editors were called to the meeting room again.

Hu Guoting looked much more haggard.

Panda Chinese Network's revenue in the first half of the year increased by 105% year-on-year, and copyright operation income increased by 366%, which attracted a large amount of capital injection.

On the one hand, it can certainly promote the output of more high-quality products, improve the level of works, and open up new themes, but on the other hand, the influx of capital has intensified the platform's frenzy, and practitioners have also been forced by capital pressure and competitive situation to increase production and operation.

Just like after seeing that Squirrel Deer rushed to the second place in the domestic novel website with only a fan category, the top management issued an order to support the fan category.

With the funds in place, the essay collection activity was launched, but this does not mean that the fan category of Panda Chinese Network will become popular.

Seeing that everyone was there, Hu Guoting coughed, and the conference room suddenly became quiet, saying: "MD Company has obtained the fan fiction copyrights of the 20 popular comics in China, and has also reached cooperation with Penguin Comics Network and Comic DreamWorks. Today's meeting is to discuss how to quickly increase the traffic of our website's fan category."

Waited for a while.

Tianqin, the editor-in-chief of Group 5, was the first to express his opinion, saying: "The development period of novels is relatively late. I think we can hold a short and medium-length essay contest."

Yumo, the editor-in-chief of Group 2, followed up and said: "We can also hold targeted essay contests, such as fan fiction of a single comic."

Longwei, the editor-in-chief of Group 6, was unwilling to lag behind and said: "The most popular comics in China now are Slam Dunk and Fengyun I by Chaoyun Muyu. Can we consider taking the fan fiction copyright of these two comics before Songshulu?"

...

Hu Guoting was very pleased to see everyone speak enthusiastically and express their opinions.

Discussed for a while.

Hu Guoting looked at a group of editors, Bees, and asked, "Xiao Shen, do you have any good suggestions?"

Bee blinked and said seriously, "Editor-in-chief, the popular works on our website are also worth developing fan fiction. We can make some articles on them. In addition, we can invite exclusive contracted authors such as Cross-border Tianwang, Nanyuan Limeng, and Erliang Heigouxue to write customized fan fiction. They have a good fan base and can bring traffic to the fan fiction category of our website."

Hu Guoting nodded slightly and said, "Very good suggestions."

Then, after a pause, he said to all editors, "After the meeting, send invitations to your authors who have reached LV5 and exclusive contracted authors. In the form of guaranteed minimum + profit sharing, the guaranteed minimum is 500 yuan per thousand words, and there is no upper limit."

Panda Chinese Network has suffered setbacks in its entry into overseas markets, and now it must maintain its position in the domestic market.

Back in the office, Bee was the first to send a WeChat message to Yunfeng.

"It seems like class time at this point."

Bee stuck out his tongue and did not wait. He also sent a WeChat message to his LV5 authors.

"Ding Dong..."

In the blink of an eye, several LV5 authors responded.

"Bee, I can't write fan fiction."

"Sister Bee, the book is going to be finished in the next few days, I'll sign up."

"Excuse me, can you write fan fiction for "Zhu Xian"?"

"Editor, I'm currently opening three books. If I open another one, my head will explode."

"Oh, I just opened a new book, and the results are not bad. I don't want to cut it, (ノへ￣、)."

...

Bee made a record of all the authors who were willing to write customized fan fiction and sent them the requirements: "50,000 words of text + more than 1,000 words of outline, send it to my email when you are done."

Just as he put down his phone, it rang again.

Seeing that it was Yunfeng's reply WeChat message, Bee quickly opened it, but when he saw it, his face became solemn.

"Want to take a break?"

You know, Hu Guoting gave Yunfeng a special price, which was considered special treatment.

But...

Such a high guarantee + profit sharing, but they were all rejected.

"There is a problem!"

Bee held her cheek and thought for a while.

Although Yunfeng refused very tactfully, she still smelled something wrong.

"This matter must be reported to the editor-in-chief."

Bee got up and went to Hu Guoting's office.

"Hey, you are also looking for the editor-in-chief?"

"Well, let's go together."

...

In front of Hu Guoting's office, Bee met Taishan, the editor-in-chief of Group 4, who is also the editor of Nanyuan Limeng.

The two knocked on the door and went in.

"What?" Hu Guoting was stunned for a moment, and said: "Both the cross-border king and Nanyuan Limeng refused, and both said 'I want to take a break for a while'?"

Bee and Taishan nodded in unison.

Immediately, Hu Guoting frowned.

Taishan said, "Editor-in-chief, could it be that because they failed to reach an agreement on the copyright of Fengyun novels last time, they..."

Bee said, "Could it be that the Crossover King and Nanyuan Limeng have already met in real life?"

Hu Guoting did not speak, still frowning in thought.

How could it be such a coincidence? The reasons for rejection were exactly the same.

The Crossover King was still okay, after all, "Let Go of the Witch" had just been completed not long ago, but Nanyuan Limeng, "The Great Scholar" had been completed for many months.

For a long time.

Hu Guoting finally spoke and said to the two: "Let me contact the Crossover King and Nanyuan Limeng."

"Okay."

"Got it."

...

Bee and Taishan responded and left.

Hu Guoting picked up his mobile phone, flipped to the number of the Crossover King and Nanyuan Limeng, hesitated for a long time, and finally did not dial.

After a while, he also got up and left.