novelkee Chapter 1883 Leisure Chapter (I’m not in good condition, I don’t even know what I wrote)
Chapter 1883 Leisure Chapter (I’m not in good condition, I don’t even know what I wrote)
Chapter 1883 Gossip (I’m not in a good mood, I don’t even know what I wrote)
Marx and his children went to visit Kai at home, but unfortunately they didn't see Kai in person. But it didn't matter. It was good to see Kai, after all, many things can be discussed in person. It didn't matter if they didn't meet. Marx didn't need Kai to promise him anything in person. He just needed to complete the task of visiting Kai's home.
In fact, Marx hoped that he and Kai would not have too much involvement. He just wanted to retire peacefully and had no intention of entering the officialdom. Since he had no ambition, he did not need to have close connections with the backstage. After all, if he and Kai were not close, he would get less help, but the corresponding responsibilities and troubles he would have to face would also be less.
Others knew that he had a relationship with Kai, so it was unlikely that they would deal with him for no reason. Similarly, since others knew that his relationship with Kai was like that, no one would really put in a lot of effort to deal with him, because dealing with him was nothing to Kai. Others were too greedy to deal with him?
He never gets into any small troubles, and he never gets into any big troubles either.
How perfect?
And since the relationship is distant, Kai won't expect him to do much, so he will get less trouble from Kai.
Is it suitable?
Of course, with Wanda and Pietro, he didn't worry that he would be turned away if Kai wasn't at home. In fact, Raven received the family very properly as the hostess and even stayed at Kai's house for an entire afternoon.
This is not a treatment that ordinary people can have.
Since Kai became famous, countless people have wanted to visit him. All kinds of people, most of whom have requests.
Some of the requests are bizarre, and some are even laughable.
The biggest shock to Raven and Alfu was that a film company came to them hoping to get authorization... But as soon as they said their name, they were driven away by the butler Alfu. Because they are Disney... These bastards are so bold.
Disney is definitely more than just a company that makes animation films.
Do you still think of Disney as "animation company", "amusement park operator", "Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck"? Disney, founded in 1926, is now nearly 100 years old and has a market value of 1800 billion US dollars. If you are not sensitive to this data, it is equivalent to 18 Wanda owned by Wang Jianlin!
The most impressive thing is Disney’s packaging and protection of its products. There is also a joke about this circulating in the United States: If one day you fall onto an isolated island, the best way to get rescued is to draw a huge Mickey Mouse on the island. Disney’s legal department will come 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, after several revisions, it changed from 14 years to 28 years and then to 1976. At that time, the copyright protection period in the United States was 56 years. If Disney implemented this law, Mickey Mouse’s copyright would be legally used by everyone in 1984! But Disney certainly refused. Through a chemical reaction of a large amount of manpower and material resources, it successfully promoted the change of US law, extending copyright protection to 75 years, and Mickey Mouse also successfully extended his life to 2023! Netizens shouted that Tencent’s legal department and Disney’s legal department had a fierce collision!
In terms of copyright protection, Disney has successfully achieved "no matter how big or small, we must personally take care of it". As long as you dare to infringe, no matter whether you are a big shot or a small shot, Disney's legal department will punish you no matter how far away you are. In the 1980s, the sixth-grade graduates of a Japanese elementary school drew a Mickey Mouse pattern on the bottom of the school's swimming pool to commemorate their graduation, and a local newspaper reported it in the newspaper. Of course, our father Di soon received this report and sent a warning letter to the school on the grounds of "copyright infringement", asking the school to stop the infringement and remove the Mickey Mouse image painting in the swimming pool. Although the public opinion at the time believed that this was just a simple graduation ceremony for the children and Disney was too sensitive. But our father Di ignored it at all, and only recognized that your use of my son's image for publicity is infringement. In the end, the school withdrew the painting under pressure. I don't know if there are 10,000 grass mud horses galloping through the hearts of this graduating class. This rights protection incident is also the earliest rights protection incident recorded by Disney. If the Japanese school incident is just a small incident or it is against foreigners, then Disney is also ruthless to the big shots in his own country.
At the 1989st Academy Awards in 61, popular singers Erin Bowman and Rob Lowe sang to open the evening. Erin Bowman appeared as Snow White from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. This successfully attracted the attention of Disney, who believed that Erin Bowman's misappropriation of the company's copyrighted image without Disney's authorization seriously infringed Disney's copyright. For this reason, Disney directly confronted the Oscar organizers. This is the famous Oscar Snow White incident. It is really a black-faced man who is mighty and majestic.
There are also the more familiar "Naruto plagiarized Captain America's storyboard" incident in China and the "Magneto" title occupied by a domestic rapper. The Naruto production team only copied a few seconds of storyboards when making the animation and received an official "infringement warning letter" from Disney. Disney used real cases to illustrate that the iron fist of Disney's legal department falls on every corner of the world. As long as you dare to infringe, they will be there at any time.
In general infringement cases, Disney will not solve the problem through legal procedures at the beginning, but will send a warning letter to ask the other party to stop the infringement. If the other party refuses to cooperate, Disney will also ruthlessly take up the big stick of law to teach you how to be a human being. For example, in 2008, Disney sued a couple who ran a party service in Florida, USA, just because they wore doll costumes with Disney characters in the promotional video of their business. For this reason, Disney asked 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. For such uncooperative little people, Disney father was of course not polite, and directly filed a lawsuit against them for up to one million US dollars in compensation, which was really picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. In 2012, a fan club in Japan directly used the image of Mickey Mouse in a game produced by one of the villains, and it was the kind of tragic villain that would be killed by players in the game. How could Disney father tolerate this? He directly asked to terminate the development and dissemination of the game and compensate Disney up to 600 million yen in compensation.
Disney not only has strong creativity in its own original IP images, but is also good at "saving effort" for its own creative team. Gary Goldman, a well-known Hollywood screenwriter who once created "Minority Report", sued Disney, claiming that Disney's "Zootopia" was quite similar to a work called "Looney" that he registered with the Writers Guild of America in 2000. At that time, he also provided Disney with a complete script outline, character concept drawings and other materials, but Disney rejected Goldman's proposal at the time.
Now Disney has copied his ideas and modified the characters of his works for commercial profit without his permission, which seriously infringes his copyright. As for Goldman's lawsuit, Disney, which has the strongest legal department on the planet, claimed that this was a completely flawed accusation, and Goldman was just a speculator who wanted to share the profits after seeing the success of the movie! As expected, the US federal court eventually dismissed Goldman's accusation on the grounds of "insufficient infringing materials" and the matter was finally left unresolved. It has to be said that Disney's legal affairs are malpractices, and capital is justice. There is also the well-known animation "The Lion King" which has the shadow of "Jungle Emperor" by the Japanese animation master Osamu Tezuka, and there is a high degree of similarity in both the character setting and the character nicknames.
Since 1997, Disney has spent more than $8700 million on lobbying Congress, and this money is only used to "influence intellectual property legislation." At the same time, Disney will reinterpret the image of Mickey Mouse and other characters from time to time to form new image works, so as to obtain new copyrights. And it is proficient in using the laws of various countries to protect its characters. In China alone, Disney has applied for more than 4000 trademark registrations in no less than categories for Mickey Mouse. Basically, everyone you can think of has registered in advance. Ordinary people may face Disney copyright infringement lawsuits if they are not careful.
And by reinterpreting its characters, Disney can update and promote them in a timely manner to maximize the copyright value of the characters. In this way, even if the copyright of the old characters expires, they will not suffer much loss, after all, the new generation replaces the old one. It can be said that under such strict intellectual property protection, any criminal who wants to reap the fruits will be deterred. The real killer move that makes Disney dominate the copyright industry is Disney's legal team, which is known as the strongest legal department on the planet.
According to Disney's existing data, Disney's legal team had more than 17 lawyers worldwide before 350. Not only does Disney's legal department have an astonishing number of lawyers, but their legal department also has an astonishing system of professional titles and salaries. Disney's legal department not only has multiple levels of professional title evaluation, such as chief lawyer, deputy chief lawyer, ordinary trial lawyer, patent law professional lawyer, television and film business lawyer, professional business lawyer, executive lawyer, chief executive lawyer, etc., but each level corresponds to an astonishingly high salary level. Take Alan Braverman, Disney's general counsel in 16, for example. His salary in 2016 alone was as high as US$11473666 (equivalent to about RMB 7500 million). This was also the highest salary among legal counsels in the world at that time. Such a salary is really unimaginable for ordinary people. Of course, what he does is really amazing.
In 1989, Disney spokesman Irving Okun said a classic sentence: "We are always involved in lawsuits."
Of course, I have said so much about exaggerating Disney just to make one thing clear, that is, it is best not to let your copyright fall into Disney's hands, otherwise... you will be squeezed out by them.
The Disney representative approached Kai with bad intentions from the beginning.
They want the copyright to Kai's image!
At first, Raven was quite happy... After all, Disney has left a very positive impression on the world, and there are few Westerners who don't know Disney. Although Raven didn't intend to agree to them at first, she also wanted to hear what they planned to do.
As a result, the cunning Ah Fu soon discovered the problem.
There is a catch in Disney's contract, they want 100% complete control of 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 to Disney!
This is naked robbery. Don't believe in Disney's childishness. This is a naked capital group! And it's a very bad one. They will squeeze out every last bit of Kai's value!
For example, they can forbid Kai to appear in any public media, or they can arrange a lot of advertisements for Kai without notifying him. Or they can forbid Kai to do something, simply because it seriously affects the image of Disney.
In short, this is equivalent to kidnapping Kai!
So Disney was kicked out.
Then the two major conglomerates, Stark and Wayne Group, started to cause trouble for Disney, and the result was that Disney apologized and fired the representative.
In fact, neither Riven nor Alfu were sure whether things were really as Disney said. It was the representative's own decision.
Or is there another reason behind this?
This may seem absurd, but in fact, others are just trying it out. If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter. It's just firing an employee. Disney won't lose anything. After all, Kai and Tony can't really do anything to them because of this.
Their business has nothing to do with Kai and his team, but once they succeed, the profits will be huge.
This kind of benefit is not just monetary gain, it can even put a collar on Kai to some extent and tame him little by little!
Don't think it's 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's not the kind of simple and crude slavery... Kai is not a fool, after all, he can sue, or simply break the contract, but it's like a blunt knife cutting the flesh, little by little, little by little.
In short, there are many people who want to visit Kai, but not many can actually enter his house and stay for such a long time.
Max was satisfied.
Because this is enough as the background!
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(End of this chapter)