Chapter 578 Punishing Copyright Chaos (Please Subscribe)
Through the "Wanbao is a girl" website, Gu Miao also noticed a problem.
Wanbao's overseas operation mechanism is not perfect enough, and there are many omissions and shortcomings...
Why do people like to see raw meat?
Why is there a distinction between "raw meat" and "cooked meat" overseas, and why is there a soil for the rise of folk subtitle groups?
It comes down to it.
Wanbao Animation’s overseas operations are still too slow. Sometimes it has been replayed three or four times in China, but there is still no news about the overseas version.
As for the popularity of private subtitle groups, that is even more worthy of reflection.
Also doing subtitle translation.
Why are the subtitles made by a group of fans better than those made by Wanbao official? Is the translation more appropriate and more popular with overseas fans?
"Where's the copyright agent?"
Gu Miao asked unhappily: "Our company seems to have a lot of copyright agency partners overseas, right? What are they doing? Why is the translation effect not as good as that of private teams?"
"They are all thinking about making money! No one is dedicated to operating and maintaining our IP!"
The more Gu Miao thought about it, the angrier he became. He immediately asked Lao Zhang to issue a notice, calling all representatives of Wanbao's copyright agency partners to the company for a meeting, and severely criticized them.
Wanbao Group is a big company.
Although it is large in scale and has many copyrights, it is impossible to expand its business to every corner of the world, let alone set up branches all over the world.
In addition to the three major regions of Neon, North America and Europe, which have established exclusive copyright agency subsidiaries to directly operate and maintain copyright affairs on behalf of the official, agency partners have been found in other regions.
for example.
Wanbao Group has a copyright agency partner called "Jiuchangfei" in Africa.
Jiuchangfei spent huge sums of money to obtain the copyright general agency rights in Africa from Wanbao Group. Business in the African region is basically under the jurisdiction of the other party's agent.
As for such copyright agents, Wanbao has a total of 27!
Gu Miao has always had a "free-range" attitude towards these 27 copyright agency partners.
simply put.
Wanbao is only responsible for producing animations and toy peripheral derivatives. As for how to broadcast animations and how to sell peripheral toys? It's entirely up to the agent.
This also led to him not discovering many copyright chaos in time.
Or……
He found out, but the sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as it does not affect Wanbao headquarters and pays the protection fee on time, he is too lazy to care about these things.
But now I can’t care less!
The popularity of the "Wanbao is a girl" website and the issues mentioned in the petition all attracted Gu Miao's attention.
He is determined to rectify the copyright chaos.
The first copyright agency partner he used to "scare the monkeys" was the general agent in Africa, the famous "Old Chuangfei".
…
About three years ago.
South Africa's "Jiuchangfei" Cultural Development Co., Ltd. was established. In June of the same year, Jiuchuangfei obtained the general agency rights of Wanbao copyright in Africa.
within these three years.
Jiuchangfei has indeed made a lot of money, but their endless tricks have really disgusted many loyal Wanbao fans.
One of the most outrageous operations was to falsely report that there was a fire at the Wanbao headquarters factory, a large number of limited-edition toys were burned, and maliciously speculate on prices.
Gu Miao only heard about it later.
What? There was a fire in the factory?
He stayed in Jiangchuan all day long, why didn't he hear about this? Could it be that he was blind and that even he didn't know about the fire in the factory, but Jiu Chuangfei actually knew about it?
besides.
In the past three years, Jiuchangfei has done countless bad things, causing countless Wanbao fans to complain about it.
Don't ask why, Gu Miao knew that Jiu Chuang Fei Sao was constantly operating, but he still didn't cancel the other party's agency rights...
The question is whether the protection fee has been paid enough!
Jiu Chuangfei is very hateful and despicable in the eyes of fans, but the protection fee they pay to Wanbao headquarters every year is indeed a lot.
If Gu Miao had switched to another agent, in the African market environment, he might not be able to squeeze out so much profit!
certainly……
The three-year period has arrived!
After tolerating the other party's misbehavior for three years, it's time to kill the pig. With a random excuse, Gu Miao punished the other party 158 million yuan.
"Isn't this too much?"
As soon as Lao Zhang heard the amount given by Gu Miao, he couldn't hold back any longer.
The region where Jiuchang is not an agent is Africa. Although Africa is very big, to be honest, there is not much oil and water. Wouldn't Jiu Chuang be happy to be punished with so much money in one go?
Wouldn't you just say goodbye to Wanbao in a fit of anger and turn around and give up the agency right?
"Don't worry, they won't."
Gu Miao said confidently: "The so-called punishment is just for the fans to see. It means that I have done many evil things in the past, and now I have been caught by the wise and powerful Mr. Gu."
"Besides, do you really think that the old company can't afford the fine? They have made a lot of money during the past three years as a copyright agent."
158 million is a lot.
But for the general agent in Africa, this amount of money is really nothing. Compared with the protection fee paid every year, this is regarded as the milk powder money given to Mr. Gu by filial piety.
Except for the old creation.
Wanbao has a total of 27 copyright general agents, and Gu Miao directly punished 17 of them. Fines range from hundreds of millions to several million.
In addition to fines, Gu Miao also re-established strict copyright operation agency standards, requiring all copyright agents to pay attention to them.
For example, the subtitle issue!
This is a commonplace thing. Official subtitles are not as good as private subtitles. This kind of thing cannot happen in Wanbao in the future.
If anyone can't do it, then stop acting as an agent for Wanbao's copyright and just get out of here.
Anyway, Wanbao has no shortage of agents. Once you sign up for one, you can find another immediately. On the contrary, these copyright agents will starve to death immediately without Wanbao.
After hard work on the copyright agency partners in various overseas regions, Wanbao's problems that have been criticized by fans have finally been solved.
It cannot be said to be completely solved.
But at least the overall atmosphere is much better than before. Through this meeting, everyone also understood that Gu Miao was not joking. If anyone does not do well, their agency rights will really be revoked...
But then again.
The agency partners Wanbao is looking for are not all evil people. Among the 27 copyright general agents, there are also several good agents who "come out of the mud but remain unstained".
For example, the general agent of a certain country in South America.
For the same "Sailor Moon" figures, other regions would like to see the price increase ten to twenty times, driving up the price and draining the wallets of fans.
But this agent was like crazy. He sold it for shipping fee + purchase price + tax + 20 yuan.
Only make 20 yuan!
Such a low price has caused a large number of "Sailor Moon" fans to go to friends in that country for cross-border purchasing.
That's right!
Because the price is too low, which is equivalent to half sale and half free, many "Sailor Moon" fans will give priority to buying the South American version when buying figures.
It can be said that my conscience is very good!
Of course, Gu Miao would severely criticize and fine a copyright agent like this!
Damn it’s so cheap that Chinese fans want to buy it on a purchasing agent. Have you ever considered how Wanbao headquarters feels?