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342 [Unexplainable Piracy]

The Golden Globes of American Film and Television have just come to an end, and the Oscars will soon be announced. At this time, the Golden Globes and the Oscars are next to each other, and are held later than 20 years later.

Kang Jianfei was too lazy to participate in the Golden Globe Awards and Oscars at this time. However, as the agent distributor, 20th Century Fox, in order to increase the global fame of "Home Imperial", took the initiative to help Kang Jianfei deliver movies and pay a small amount of lobbying gold.

20th Century Fox's efforts were not in vain. "Home Imperial" successfully won the Golden Globe Award for Best Soundtrack and Best Song nomination, and also won the Oscar for Best Soundtrack.

To be honest, Kang Jianfei no longer remembers the original soundtrack, but based on the general melody, he asked Lu Guanting to help fill in the details. Compared with the original soundtrack, Kang Jianfei himself couldn't explain which version is better.

Because the Golden Globe Awards ceremony was during the Spring Festival, Kang Jianfei had no intention of leaving for the United States, and only asked Tang Shuxuan, who was still in the United States, to attend the awards ceremony on his behalf.

Sure enough, both nominations for the Golden Globe Award were aborted, and Kang Jianfei did not win a single award.

However, even so, for Hong Kong directors, being able to nominate both the Oscar and the Golden Globes is enough to be a temporary talk. After the news was released back to Hong Kong, it also promoted the box office of "Home Imperial" to a certain extent.

The film awards in the United States will not be mentioned yet. The nomination for the second Hong Kong Film Awards will also be announced after the New Year. It will be selected from the films released in Hong Kong from January to December last year. It must be qualified by the staff of 6 projects.

This time, the Hong Kong Film Awards has changed a lot from the first session last year. It is no longer a small fight for "Movie Biweekly" to entertain themselves. Without a professional film group, Shu Qi imitated the American Film Golden Globe Awards and organized a large jury with 258 journalists/film critics. In order to be fair and fair, these jury members include not only Hong Kong people, but also some from Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea.

Not only that, the second Hong Kong Film Awards also invited Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, Taiwanese director Lee Xing and Hong Kong director Lee Hanxiang as special guests. Xu Xiaofeng, Teresa Teng and Anita Mui were invited as guests of the performance. The hosts were directly the original members of "Happy 60 Points", Zheng Zeshi, Zhang Mary, Zhou Xingchi and Mao Shunyun. In addition, Pan Yuesheng, the editor-in-chief of Ming Pao, was also invited to supervise the fairness of the selection process, and Shu Qi, the editor-in-chief of "Movie Biweekly", was the chairman of the jury, leading the professionalism of the jury.

There are also major breakthroughs in the Academy Awards. On the basis of the original, it has been added to 14 awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Photography, Best Actor and Female Leader, Best Supporting Actor and Female, Best Music, Best Original Song, Best Editing, Best Sound Effect, Best Visual Effects and Best Action Design.

The trophy has also been redesigned, and according to the body proportions of the leading actress Zheng Wenya, the goddess with a hand holding a pearl and a body wrapped in film.

The Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled to be held at Taiping Cinema on March 15, and the grand ceremony will be broadcast on Phoenix TV that night. Also participating are Hong Kong Radio and Oriental Daily, these two units are assisting Phoenix TV in hosting the awards ceremony.

Before the Spring Festival has passed, major media in Hong Kong have begun to promote the Academy Awards. In order to create this year's Academy Awards, Kang Jianfei spent 5 million to organize funds. It is almost impossible to recover the 5 million yuan, because the influence of the Academy Awards is too small, and Phoenix TV, as the organizer, can only get a little advertising fee.

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Before the Golden Horse Awards ceremony was held, Kang Jianfei received an unexpected and hilarious news.

In the 1983 Spring Festival Gala at the Mainland Central Station, Kang Jianfei asked Deng Yimin to choose two young singers who could speak Mandarin to participate, and also wrote four songs for them personally. In order to avoid suspicion, Kang Jianfei, the lyricist and composer of these four New Year songs, signed the pseudonym "Long Aotian".

The two young singers are named Zhang Xiang and Teng Yuwei, one man and the other woman are both 26 years old. This age and look very ordinary, it is basically impossible for them to become famous in Hong Kong.

As a result, Zhang Xiang and Teng Yuwei ran to the Spring Festival Gala to sing, and became popular all over China overnight. The four songs "Good Luck", "Happy New Year", "Big China" and "Happy Meeting" became the divine songs sung by everyone from all over the country.

Kang Jianfei originally wanted Deng Yimin to go north and cooperated with the China Recording Company (later China Recording Corporation) that was established in the mainland at the end of last year, to create a "Happy New Year" album.

Who knew that Deng Yimin had just taken a plane to Beijing/Beijing and found that these four songs and other songs of the Spring Festival Gala had been recorded into albums and covered with alleys. The publishing unit of this record was the China Records Agency.

Deng Yimin had to go to discuss with the Chinese Records Society, but the Chinese Records Society said that they had obtained the copyright from the Central Station Spring Festival Gala program team. When Deng Yimin went to find the Spring Festival Gala program team again, the temporary organization had long been disbanded and no one was willing to come out to take responsibility.

Deng Yimin was depressed and complained to the comrades who accompanied the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, and the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office could only report the situation to the superiors.

After all, Deng Yimin belonged to his Hong Kong compatriots, and the behavior of Chinese record clubs was quickly criticized by superiors, and the next thing was "successfully resolved."

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"You said the China Records Agency gave you 500 yuan in copyright fees?" Kang Jianfei looked at Deng Yimin speechlessly as if he heard a fantasy.

"500 yuan is quite a lot, because I am a compatriot in Hong Kong. I heard that mainland music creators only cost 20 to 30 yuan for a song." Deng Yimin smiled bitterly. He only stayed in Beijing/Beijing for a few days before coming back. If he stayed there, he would feel like a fool.

Kang Jianfei was so angry that he couldn't twist his arms, so he could only suffer a loss in such a situation. If he really spared no effort to make trouble with the Hong Kong and Macau Office, perhaps some central leaders would severely criticize the piracy of Chinese record companies due to the special period of Sino-British negotiations, and then make up for Kang Jianfei's losses.

But because several songs are irrelevant with Chinese record companies, this behavior is not worth the cost, and the connections involved are too complicated.

Deng Yimin threw out a booklet and said, "This is the "Interim Provisions on the Management of Audio and Video Recordings" issued by the Mainland more than a month ago. Article 6 of which is about protecting the copyright of creators. I estimate that many people in the Mainland have never read this regulation carefully and do not know what copyright protection is."

Kang Jianfei opened the booklet and read it with interest. Article 6 is: The publishing unit of audio-visual products should protect the reasonable rights and interests of the author and performer. The remuneration standards for audio-visual products of literary and artistic programs, and the remuneration method shall be jointly formulated by the Ministry of Radio and Television and the Ministry of Culture... The publishing unit of audio-visual products enjoys the right to publish the recorded audio-visual materials according to the agreement with the author and performer. Without the authorization of the original audio-visual products publishing unit, no other unit may reprint or copy, or delete or revise or publish separately. The author and performer have authorized the program to a certain audio-visual product publishing unit, and other audio-visual products publishing units shall not use increased remuneration, repeated remuneration or other improper means to record and publish separately. Violators, the publishing unit of the original audio-visual products may sue the judicial authorities.

"Haha, the regulations are quite detailed, but unfortunately they are just a piece of waste paper." Kang Jianfei couldn't help laughing after seeing it. Nowadays, the record companies in mainland China are all state-owned. Even if they infringe on the copyright of the creator, which creator dares to sue? Once the lawsuit is started, it will be a civilian lawsuit, and the court probably won't accept it at all.

Deng Yimin sat down and drank a sip of water and said, "Boss, I asked the officials of the Ministry of Culture that the possibility of opening a record company with the mainland is zero. Records are special commodities. Now the mainland has not relaxed the gap in this regard at all, so they can only choose to cooperate with state-owned record companies in the mainland to produce and release records."

Kang Jianfei nodded. This time he asked Deng Yimin to go north just to test the waters. The mainland is very strict in the management of cultural products. Kang Jianfei went to CCTV to sell "The Great Hero Huo Yuanjia" and took advantage of the loopholes, which happened to be sold before the relevant regulations were issued.

Now, if Kang Jianfei wants to sell TV series to CCTV, he or she needs to report to the Radio and Television Department for approval, and then ask the General Administration of Customs to issue a notice.

If Kang Jianfei wants to distribute records in the mainland, he must cooperate with the mainland audio-visual publishing unit. If the cooperative unit is a Chinese record company, it must also be approved by the competent unit of the ministries and commissions, and then issued a notice by the Ministry of Radio, Television and the General Administration of Customs.

Anyway, in recent years, the film and music market in the mainland has been difficult to do, and Kang Jianfei doesn’t want to spend his brains to manage it.

"Let's do this, do the favors to the end." Although Kang Jianfei didn't want to deliberately explore the mainland music market, it was good to have a good relationship with his mainland colleagues. "Didn't Zhang Xiang and Teng Yuwei sang popular on the Spring Festival Gala? Anyway, they don't have much future in Hong Kong and Taiwan. You can lend them to the Chinese record company."

Deng Yimin doesn't care. He actually doesn't have much hope for the mainland market, nor does he believe that poor mainland people will have too much consumption capacity.

Kang Jianfei left Fengxing Records and drove to Villa No. 4 of Repulse Bay. Hu Juncai and Ye Zishan were about to fly back to the mainland. Kang Jianfei was here to see him off.

The two were on a plane at 3:00 pm. When Kang Jian flew to the villa, Hu Juncai and Ye Zishan were just packing their things after dinner. There were only a few large bags of souvenirs and gifts.

When Kang Jianfei saw Ye Zishan, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind and asked, "Zishan, is there anyone in your family working in a record company?"

Ye Zishan nodded and said, "Yes, my cousin was from the singing and dancing troupe. After getting married, she entered the Guangzhou/zhou record factory."

"Do you remember your cousin's phone number?" Kang Jianfei asked.

Ye Zishan didn't ask Kang Jianfei what he wanted to do, so she wrote a phone number with a pen.

Kang Jianfei immediately called Deng Yimin and said, "Don't lend Zhang Xiang and Teng Yuwei to China Records Club. I have a phone number here, which is the contact information of Miss Ye from Guangzhou/zhou Records Factory. You can talk to Ms. Ye about cooperation."
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