Chapter 555: This is a 1 billion business?

After playing in Los Angeles for three days, Zhang Yang had planned to leave and went to the next city. Suddenly he received a call from Edson saying that Warner executives learned that Zhang Yang was in Los Angeles and wanted to invite Zhang Yang to dinner.
Ye Jia was very surprised: "Zhang Yang, I heard that the American people are different from our Huaxia people, and they don't talk about business at the dinner table. Why do you say that the other party asked you to eat to talk about business?"
"It's not talking about business. What can I do? I haven't seen this before. Actually, we also pay attention to eating and talking at the dinner table in ancient times, but in fact many things are negotiated at the dinner table."
"It's just that when you eat here, you don't have some places like us. When you eat and drink, you must drink more and drink it. You still like to negotiate the conditions when you are sober."
aoL Time Warner, one of the world's leading record companies, is on the North American side, that is, Schneider can break with his wrists, and other companies must be slightly inferior.
Before Zhang Yang was listed on the Zhiduoxing Group, he also borrowed the other's Time Weekly to build momentum, so this time the other party's executives took the initiative to invite, and they were willing to cooperate with Zhang Yang's time, and even bring his family, Zhang Yang also had to give face.
At noon the next day, at another top restaurant in Los Angeles, Zhang Yang took Ye Jia in and reported the other party's name. A waiter led them to the table.
"Mr. Zhang, Mrs. Zhang, how are you. This is Walker and this is my wife Lily."
"Hello." Zhang Yang helped Ye Jia to open the chair.
"This time I also accidentally heard that Mr. Zhang was in Los Angeles. I heard that the two were traveling, disturbing the interest of the two."
"It's okay, I'm very happy to be able to dine with the two."
Before the appetizer started, Walker began to lead the topic on the table, mainly talking about some fun places in and around Los Angeles, or some very good food.
When the main course came up, Walker finally said the purpose of the trip.
"Chapter, your company has many music products, including game music, game console music, portable music players, DVD players, etc., but your company does not seem to have invested in music companies, so lack of music rights, right?"
Zhang Yang nodded: "Yes, we lack music copyrights. At present, we are working with some record companies to adopt a share model. The record companies have an extra income, but we want to produce CDs and run download sites. In fact, we Can't make any money."
"Chapter, have you ever thought of developing a music player software that can be used on a computer? It is convenient to listen to music while browsing the web on the computer?"
Zhang Yang slowly cut the foie gras: "Walker, we have made what you said, a music player software, which is listed on the Chinese market and is free for players to use."
Is this thing reminded by others? Zhang Yang had already arranged people to do it. The previous music player software is also very popular, the biggest effect is to drain.
Music player software does not make money, but monthly subscriptions on the music website are paid, although not much, but you can accumulate less.
When everyone is used to using this music player software, there are more ways to make money in the future. For example, acquiring a record company and launching some original songs. Or maybe an advertisement pop-up window, even if it only sells records, is considered accurate delivery, and the advertising fee will not be cheap.
It also allows everyone to get used to the mP3 music format, which is of great benefit to the promotion of mP3 players.
Walker heard that Zhang Yang's company had already made it, and it was not too unexpected. If you don't even have this idea, then it is surprising.
"Chapter, then your number of users must have increased a lot, is it not enough music? Before, your company had a cooperation with our record company under Warner, but there were not many licenses. At that time, we were in the stage of exploring each other. To explore this mode of cooperation."
"Now we have added many new songs, and there are many copyrights of classic old songs. Does your company want a deeper cooperation? Not only do you authorize some songs for download, everyone divides them, you can also adapt some songs, Even translated into Chinese, or refill words."
"A lot of songs are nice, but people don’t understand English, so they won’t sing along. This will definitely affect the spread of the song. If it is translated, it will be different."
"We still have a lot of copyrights in music videos, which can also be licensed to your company for the production of VcD or DVD discs. I heard that KaraoK in your country is very hot?"
"Yes, people in our country prefer to sing, and there are many such places of business. In fact, foreign songs, the most popular in our country is only Russian songs."
"Although our country encourages everyone to learn foreign languages ​​and learn English, there are not many who can really master it. This can be derived from the statistics downloaded from our website. Is your company's records sold in the Chinese market?"
Walker would like to say that his subordinates told him that it was not that their records were not sold well, but that too many pirated copies had affected the sales of genuine copies.
If there is no piracy in the Chinese market, their income will increase a lot, after all, it is a huge market of more than one billion people.
So he took the initiative to find Zhang Yang to cooperate, hoping to use the strength of partners to promote their music, even film and television products, and increase the income of their related products.
When Zhang Yang was chatting with Walker, Walker's wife was also chatting with Ye Jia. They were all talking about things that some women liked, and it seemed that the chat was pretty good.
"Chapter, I can promise to package and authorize the copyrights of some music and film and television to your company for distribution and use in the Chinese market. Is it impossible for other companies to agree?"
Zhang Yang does have some intentions, if you add the right to adapt ~EbookFREE.me~ is even more valuable.
"Just in the Huaxia market? That's not enough. I won't issue it in other markets, but it requires the right to use it, at least it can be used on our products."
Just add the variety of songs to the dancing machine, this is not a loss. Those new song memory cards can also make a fortune by selling them.
The two chatted for a long time. After the dessert was finished, they stood up and shook hands.
After Ye Jia went out, she asked curiously: "You have been chatting for so long, but there is no result at all?"
"Yes, it's basically negotiated. If you go back and ask them to improve the details, you can sign the contract."
"Ah? That's the deal? I didn't hear what you said? Is the business you talk about big?"
"It's okay, it's worth at least one billion RmB, it may be higher."
Ye Jia felt even more incredible: "You just chatted at the dinner table for more than half an hour, and you negotiated a billion business? Is it so simple to talk about business?"