Chapter 1892: Gossip (in a bad state, I don’t even know what I wrote)
Marx and his children visited Kay's home, but unfortunately they didn't see Kay in person. But that didn't matter. It was good to see Kay. After all, many things can be discussed in person. It didn't matter if they didn't meet. Marx didn't need Kay to talk to him in person.
What's the guarantee? He just needs to complete the visit to Kai's house.
In fact, Marx hopes that he and Kai will not have too much involvement. He just wants to live in peace and contentment until retirement, and has no intention of entering the officialdom to show off his power. Since he has no ambitions, there is no need to have close contact with the backstage.
, after all, if his relationship with Kai is not close, although he will receive less help, the corresponding responsibilities and troubles he will have to face will also become less.
If others know that he has a relationship with Kai, then they are unlikely to deal with him for no reason. In the same way, since others know that his relationship with Kai is like that, no one will really make great efforts to deal with him, because to deal with himself
It doesn't matter to Kai at all. What if others eat too much to deal with him?
Small troubles cannot come to him, and big troubles cannot come to him.
How perfect?
And since the relationship is far away, Kai won't expect him to do much. In this way, he will get a lot less trouble from Kai.
Is it a good fit?
Of course, with Wanda and Pietro, he was not worried that he would be rejected if Kai was not at home. In fact, Raven received their family very appropriately as a hostess. She even stayed at Kai's house for an afternoon.
This is not a treatment that ordinary people can have.
Ever since Kai became famous, countless people have wanted to visit Kai. All kinds of people, most of whom have requests.
Some of the requests are bizarre, and some are even dumbfounding.
Among them, the biggest shock to Ruiwen and Ah Fu was that a film company came to them hoping to get authorization... But as soon as they finished naming their names, they were kicked away by the housekeeper Ah Fu. Because they are Disney... This gang
My grandson is so bold.
Disney is definitely not just a company that makes cartoons.
Do your impressions of Disney still remain as "the one who makes cartoons", "the one who runs amusement parks" and "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck"? Disney, founded in 1926, has a history of nearly 100 years, and its market value has reached 180 billion.
US dollars, if you are not sensitive to this data, it is equivalent to 18 Wang Jianlin's Wanda!
The most powerful thing is Disney’s packaging and rights protection of its products. There is a joke about this in the United States: If one day you fall on an isolated island, the best way to be rescued is to draw a huge one on the island.
Mickey Mouse, Disney's legal department will rush over as quickly as possible to sue you!
The story is still in 1790. The earliest copyright law in the United States established that the copyright protection period was only 14 years. Later, it was revised several times, from 14 years to 28 years and then to 1976. At that time, the copyright protection period in the United States was
In 1956, if Disney had implemented this law, Mickey Mouse's copyright would have been legally used by everyone in 1984! But of course Disney refused. Through a chemical reaction of a lot of manpower and material resources, it successfully promoted the change of American law.
Copyright protection was extended to 75 years, and Mickey Mouse also successfully extended its life until 2023! Netizens shouted that Tencent’s legal department and Disney’s legal department would have a fierce collision!
In terms of copyright protection, Disney has successfully achieved the goal of "doing everything by hand, no matter how small it is." As long as you dare to infringe, no matter you are a big shot or a small person, Disney's legal affairs will be punished. In the 1980s, a sixth grader of a Japanese elementary school
To commemorate their graduation, the graduates drew a Mickey Mouse pattern on the bottom of the school swimming pool and it was reported by a local newspaper. Of course, our daddy quickly received the report and claimed it as "copyright infringement".
A warning letter was sent to the school asking the school to stop the infringement and remove the Mickey Mouse painting in the swimming pool. Although public opinion at the time believed that this was just a simple graduation ceremony for the children, Disney was too sensitive. But our daddy did not agree at all.
Ignore it, I just think that using my son's image for publicity is an infringement. In the end, the school was forced to withdraw the painting. I don't know if there are ten thousand grass mud horses galloping through the hearts of this graduating class. And this rights protection incident
It is also the earliest rights protection incident recorded by Disney. If we say that the Japanese school incident is just a minor incident and it is aimed at foreigners, then Disney is also merciless to big figures in the country.
At the 61st Academy Awards in 1989, popular singers Erin Bowman and Rob Lowe opened the evening. Among them, Erin Bowman sang as the character from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
The image of Snow White came forward. This successfully attracted the attention of Disney. They believed that Erin Bowman had misappropriated the company's copyrighted image without Disney's authorization and seriously infringed the copyright of Disney.
, for this reason, Disney directly engaged with the Oscar organizers. This is the famous Oscar Snow White incident. You are really a black-faced man, you are so majestic.
There are also the domestically familiar incidents of "Naruto plagiarizing Captain America's storyboards" and the incident of a domestic rapper occupying the title "Magneto". The Naruto production team only reproduced a few seconds of storyboards when making animations.
I directly received an official "infringement warning letter" from Disney. Disney used real cases to explain that the iron fist of Disney's legal affairs is in every corner of the world. As long as you dare to infringe, he will be there to protect you.
In general infringement cases, Disney will not solve the problem through legal procedures at the beginning, but will issue a warning letter asking the other party to stop the infringement. If the other party refuses to cooperate, Disney will mercilessly pick up the legal stick and teach you.
How to behave. For example, in 2008, Disney sued a couple who ran a party service in Florida, USA, just because they wore dolls with Disney character images in a promotional video to promote their business. For this reason, Disney
The company required the couple to send the costumes to Disney so that they could destroy them, but at that time the couple returned the costumes to the original seller in exchange for the money they used to buy the costumes. Of course, Dad Di had nothing to do with such uncooperative little people.
You're welcome, just file a million-dollar lawsuit against them. It's really a waste of money. In 2012, a Japanese fan club directly used the image of one of the villains in a game they produced.
It has lost the image of Mickey Mouse and is still the tragic opposite of being killed by players in the game with its head and body dismembered. Is this what Papa Dee can bear? He wants to terminate the development and dissemination of the game and compensate Disney for up to 6 million.
Japanese yen compensation.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Disney not only has strong creativity in its own original IP images, but is also good at "saving effort" for its own creative team. The well-known Hollywood actor who once created "Minority Report"
Film screenwriter Gerry Goldman once sued Disney, claiming that Disney's "Zootopia" was very similar to a work called "Looney" he registered with the Writers Guild of America in 2000. At that time, he
Disney was also provided with a complete script summary, character concept drawings and other materials, but Disney rejected Goldman's proposal at the time.
Now Disney has plagiarized his ideas and modified his characters for commercial profit without his permission. This behavior seriously infringes on his copyright. Goldman's prosecution is one of the most controversial actions on the planet.
Disney, which is strong in legal affairs, claimed that this was a completely flawed accusation, and that Goldman was just a speculator who wanted to share the profits after watching the movie! As expected, the U.S. Federal Court ultimately dismissed Goldman on the grounds of "insufficient infringing material."
In the end, Deman's accusation was dismissed. It has to be said that Disney's legal affairs were guilty of malpractice. Sure enough, capital is justice. There is also the well-known "Lion King" animation, which includes "The Jungle Book" by Japanese animation master Osamu Tezuka.
Shadow, both in terms of personality and character nicknames, have a high degree of similarity.
Since 1997, Disney has spent more than 87 million US dollars on lobbying Congress alone, and this money has only been used to "influence intellectual property legislation." At the same time, every once in a while, Disney will criticize Mickey Mouse and other products.
The images of its characters were reinterpreted to form new image works, in order to obtain new copyrights. They also skillfully used the laws of various countries to protect their characters. Among other things, Disney in China applied for Mickey Mouse alone.
There are more than 4,000 related registrations of trademarks in no less than 50 major categories. Basically, everyone you can think of has registered them in advance. Ordinary people may face Disney copyright infringement lawsuits if they are not careful.
And by reinterpreting its character images, Disney can promptly update and promote the character image to maximize the copyright value of the character image. In this way, even if the copyright of the previous old character expires, they will not lose much. After all, a new generation replaces an old one.
.It can be said that under such strict property rights protection, it is enough to deter any criminal who tries to pick the fruits. The real reason why Disney can dominate the copyright industry is Disney’s legal team, known as the surface of the earth.
The strongest legal department.
According to Disney's existing information, Disney's legal team had more than 350 lawyers worldwide before 2017. Not only does Disney's legal department have an astonishing number of lawyers, but their legal professional titles and salaries are even higher.
There is an amazing system. The Disney Legal Department is not only divided into multiple levels of professional title evaluations such as chief lawyer, deputy chief lawyer, general trial lawyer, patent law professional lawyer, television and film business lawyer, professional business lawyer, executive lawyer, chief executive lawyer, etc.
, and each level corresponds to an astonishingly high salary level. Taking Alan Braverman, Disney's general counsel in 2016 as an example, his salary in 2016 alone was as high as US$11,473,666 (equivalent to about 75 million RMB).
) This was also the highest salary among legal consultants in the world at that time. Most people would never dare to imagine such a salary. Of course, what they did was indeed amazing.
In 1989, Disney spokesman Irving Okun said a classic saying: "We are always litigating."
Of course, after talking so much about glorifying Disney, I want to explain one thing, that is, it is best not to let any of your copyrights fall into the hands of Disney, otherwise... you will be waiting to be squeezed out by them.
When Disney representatives approached Kai, they didn't have good intentions from the beginning.
They want the rights to Kai's image!
Raven was quite happy at first... Anyway, Disney has given a very positive impression to the whole world. There are very few Westerners who don't know about Disney. Although Raven didn't intend to agree to them at first, she still wanted to hear them.
What to do.
As a result, Ah Fu, a clever old man, quickly discovered the problem.
There's a catch in Disney's contract, they want 100% complete control over Kai's image copyright!
Although the money given is a lot, it can even be exchanged for stocks.
But that means that Kai’s image no longer belongs to Kai, but belongs to Disney!
This is just naked robbery. Don’t believe that Disney has any childlike innocence. This is a naked capital group! And it’s a pretty bad kind. They will squeeze out every last bit of Kai’s value!
For example, they can prohibit Kai from appearing in any public media. Another example is that they can arrange a lot of advertisements for Kai, but they do not need to notify Kai. Another example is that they can ban Kai from doing anything for the simple reason of seriously affecting Disney's image.
In short, this is equivalent to kidnapping Kai!
So Disney was driven away.
Then the two major consortiums, Stark and Wayne Group, went to find trouble with Disney. As a result, Disney apologized and fired the representative.
In fact, neither Raven nor Ah Fu is actually sure whether things are really as Disney said. This is the representative's own decision.
Or maybe there is another reason behind this.
This kind of thing seems nonsensical, but in fact, others are trying it out, and it doesn't matter if they don't succeed. They just fire an employee. Disney will not lose anything. After all, Kai and Tony can't really do it because of this thing.
What to do with them.
Their business doesn't mesh well with Kai's, but once it succeeds, the benefits are huge.
This kind of benefit is not only a monetary gain, but can even put a collar on Kai to a certain extent and tame him little by little!
Don't be alarmist, there is really no shortage of smart people in this world. After all, once Kai signs the contract, they can start to control Kai through various channels... It is not that simple and crude slavery... Kai is not a fool, after all
He could litigate, or simply break the contract, but he would cut the flesh with some kind of blunt knife, making further progress little by little, and mastering it little by little.
In short, there are many people who want to visit Kai, but not many can actually enter the house and stay for such a long time.