Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

There is a saying that comes from a happy life and returns from a bad mood, or in other words, there is no worst, only worse.

Although Masashi Sada recognized Cao Zhiqiang's music very much, and paid out of his own pocket, he happily made a demo, which is Cao Zhiqiang's guitar playing and singing version of "As long as you are there".

Unfortunately, due to Cao Zhiqiang's special status, Japan's Polydor Records also refused to cooperate with Masashi Sada, and did not want to release a record with Cao Zhiqiang as the singer.

Like JVC Records, Polydor Records of Japan politely refused to release Cao Zhiqiang's personal record single, but they also thought the song was good and agreed to buy the copyright of the song, but the price was not high, and the highest bid was only 60 yen, higher than JVC.

These conditions, not to mention that Cao Zhiqiang could not agree, even Masashi Sada would not agree.

Because in Masashi Sada's view, Cao Zhiqiang's song "As long as you are there" definitely has the potential to become a big hit. It is not worthwhile to sell the copyright for only 60 yen.

However, it cannot be said that this line is not beneficial.

The advantage is that Cao Zhiqiang realized the importance of music copyright in Japan.

In addition, Cao Zhiqiang was afraid that someone was really evil. After listening to the demo of his song "As long as you are there", he plagiarized that song, even if it was just the melody, that would be bad.

So, just in case, after being rejected by Japan's Polydor Records, Cao Zhiqiang didn't want to try his luck with other record companies, but insisted on asking Masashi Sada to take him to the headquarters of the Japan Music Copyright Association immediately, and then Tone has registered a total of [-] Japanese song lyrics and music copyrights.

That's right, there are 1984 Japanese songs, including "As long as you are here", "TSUNAMI", "The Three Maruko Brothers" and other top-ranked best-selling songs on the Japanese Oricon chart, and they are all available after [-] song.

He copied these songs in order of ranking, regardless of the date, including the lyrics and music. He didn't even change a note or a word, it was pure plagiarism, and it didn't even count as washing the manuscript.

The Japan Music Copyright Association is a remarkable organization. Although it is not a government department, it is indeed a non-governmental association responsible for copyright. For various reasons, the power is still very large.

As for Japan, even in the 80s, it is a country that pays great attention to copyright awareness, especially copyright.

For example, in the singing industry, generally speaking, singers are more famous, but those who are truly respected are actually song creators, especially the creators of music scores and lyrics, who are more respected and earn a lot.

Since Japan attaches great importance to copyright from the beginning, as long as you create a song and own the original copyright of the song, such as the copyright of the score and the copyright of the lyrics, then you can register with the Japan Music Copyright Association first, and then you can rest assured Boldly sign a contract or go to a show.

As long as your original song is registered with the Japan Music Copyright Association, in the future, no matter whether the song is sold on records, on TV, on the radio, or on karaoke, you will have to pay the copyright fee to the original song creator.

As for collecting money, there is no need for the original creator to work hard, and the Japan Music Copyright Association will collect it in proportion.

Of course, the Japan Music Copyright Association does not help for free. They charge money to help you maintain copyrights.

For example, when you grade a work, you need to charge a registration fee, which is not much, very little.

The key is that any subsequent performances of the work, as long as there are commercial activities, must be paid to the Japan Music Copyright Association in proportion.

Theoretically, after you create a song, you don’t need to register with the Japan Music Copyright Association. As long as you can prove that the song is your original creation, you can also hire a lawyer to protect your copyright.

However, it is particularly troublesome to find a lawyer to protect the copyright by yourself, which is far less convenient than the Japan Music Copyright Association.

Especially for foreigners like Cao Zhiqiang, the most suitable person to help defend their rights is the Japan Music Copyright Association. After all, this association does not only require Japanese, foreigners can also register their songs.

In other words, as long as Cao Zhiqiang registers his Japanese songs here, he will not have to worry about companies copying his songs in the future.

Once there is plagiarism, he does not need to hire a lawyer himself. He can entrust the legal team of the Japan Music Copyright Association to sue the unit that plagiarized his songs to death.

However, Cao Zhiqiang's sudden move surprised Masashi Sada.

It was not because of Cao Zhiqiang's awareness of copyright, but because of Cao Zhiqiang's feat of writing [-] original Japanese songs at once.

You know, singing and writing songs are two different things.

As a singer, you may sing many songs in one breath, but it is definitely more difficult to create songs.

Fortunately, Cao Zhiqiang wrote a hundred songs in one go, and they all seemed to be finely crafted, not the kind of casually written songs.

This is scary.

Fortunately, although Cao Zhiqiang is still unknown in Japan, he was already a famous poet and singer when he was in China, and his reputation as a talented man has already spread.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang can suddenly burst out a hundred Japanese songs in Japan. Although it is scary, it is not incomprehensible.

Anyway, according to Cao Zhiqiang, these songs were all made by him when he was learning Japanese by himself.

In this regard, Masashi Sada also accepted this explanation.

It doesn't work if you don't accept it.

In any case, with this feat, Masashi Sada's ambition was rekindled.

Because in his opinion, just from these one hundred songs, if you pick a few songs at random, they all have the potential to become a big hit.

That’s right, 90% of these Japanese songs registered by Cao Zhiqiang are songs that appeared after the 100s, and they are more than [-] songs on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart. Not to mention, at least in terms of popularity, they have long been It has been proved by the vast number of Japanese people.

Even if it appeared a little earlier now, good things are good things, especially things like songs, which are good to listen to, and it is impossible to really be buried.

It's fine if you don't know songs, but Masashi Sada knows songs. Even if he comes up with a song, he can immediately know whether the song is good or bad as long as he hums a few lines of the melody.

In other words, Masashi Sada can't guarantee whether a song will be a hit after it is released, but he can guarantee whether it is a good song.

As for the songs written by Cao Zhiqiang, although Masashi Sada hadn't read all of them, just a few songs he picked out at random were enough to shock him.

Because it's all good songs, all good songs, and none of them sound bad.

"How did you do it?" Masashi Sada put down a document paper full of song lyrics, "How did you make all the songs so good?"

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged his shoulders: "No, it's just like I said, when I was learning Japanese, I unconsciously wanted to create by myself, and I thought about it, and I came up with so much."

"Awesome!" Masashi Sada shook his head, "The more I get in touch with you, the more I realize that you are unfathomable. You are such a treasure. I believe that those who look down on you will definitely regret it in the future!"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly and took a sip of tea: "Maybe."

At this moment, suddenly a middle-aged man in a suit and glasses walked quickly, and said as he walked, "Excuse me, who is Mr. Cao Zhiqiang?"

"I am." Cao Zhiqiang quickly stood up from his chair, "What's the matter?"

The middle-aged man in a suit looked at Cao Zhiqiang, and was about to speak when Masashi Sada next to him suddenly asked in surprise, "Senior Endo, is that you?"

"Huh?" The man in the suit who was called Mito Endo was stunned, turned his head to look at Masashi Sada, and soon recognized him, "Oh, you know me? By the way, you look familiar, I seem to be I know you, I think your name is Sada, Sada..."

"Sada Masashi!" Sada Masashi said excitedly.

"Yes, Masashi Sada! Hahaha!" Mito Endo laughed, "I remember, you were the one who sang "Kanbai Manifesto", right?"

"Hi!" Masashi Sada nodded embarrassingly, "That's my clumsy work, I'm really embarrassed to say it in front of seniors."

"No, no, that song is very nice." Mito Endo said with a smile, "I like it too."

Speaking of this, Endo Minoru suddenly said seriously: "But you wait first, I will finish the business first."

After finishing speaking, Endo looked at Cao Zhiqiang: "You are Mr. Cao Zhiqiang? The one who just registered a hundred songs with us?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Well, yes."

Endo Minoru nodded: "Ah, let me introduce myself first, I am Endo Minoru, and I am the director of the Music Copyright Association."

"Ah, it's Mr. Director, hello." Cao Zhiqiang nodded politely again.

Endo frowned slightly, then smiled and said: "Your address is weird, your name is also weird, and your words and deeds are also different. Are you not Japanese?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly, "I am from mainland China."

"Oh, that's it." Endou Minoru nodded.

Immediately afterwards, Endo Minoru looked at Masashi Sada next to him: "You guys, are you together?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Mr. Satian is my good friend, and he accompanied me to register the copyright this time. Otherwise, I might not even know where your association is located, and I don't even know where to register in advance. Come and register the copyright."

Endo smiled: "I see, that makes sense."

After a pause, Endo put away his smile, looked at Cao Zhiqiang very seriously, and said, "Cao Sang, is it okay for me to call you that?"

"Yes, of course no problem." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

Endo Minoru nodded, and continued to ask seriously: "I want to ask, the copyright registrant of the previous hundred original songs is all one, is that you?"

"Yes!" Cao Zhiqiang replied.

"You wrote it all yourself? You made it original?" Mito Endo asked immediately.

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "At least in this world, yes."

"Senior Endo!" Masashi Sada couldn't help but said, "I can prove that these songs are all original by himself, he is a genius in this area, and not only can write songs, he can also sing very well.

By the way, although he is not well-known in Japan, he is already a very famous singer in their mainland.

As far as I know, he released an album of Chinese songs in Mandarin in mainland China more than two months ago. Up to now, it seems that the sales volume has exceeded 400 million copies, right, Cao Sang? "

In the last question, Masashi Sada obviously asked Cao Zhiqiang.

"400 million copies? More than two months ago, less than three months?" Endo was stunned, then looked at Masashi Sada, "Really?"

"Of course it's true." Masashi Sada said, "I'm definitely not lying, if you don't believe me, you can check it at any time.

By the way, Cao Sang himself is the president of a record company in mainland China.

His first album released in mainland China was produced and released by his own record company, and their management of this kind of data is very strict, so the sales data should not be wrong. "

"What?" Endo Minoru looked at Cao Zhiqiang again, "You are still the president of a record company? How is that possible?"

"Why is it impossible?" Cao Zhiqiang smiled.

Mito Endo frowned and said, "I know a little bit about the situation in mainland China. It seems that their companies are all state-owned, and private individuals cannot start clubs.

Then, the president of their club must be appointed by the government, and they are usually ranked based on seniority. It is impossible for a young man to be the president of a record company.

You look very young, probably not even 30 years old, how could you become the president of a state-owned club? "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Oh, you said this, this matter is a bit complicated to say, but you also know that our country is currently undergoing reform and opening up, and many things are seeking innovations and changes, so I appointed a It is not impossible for young people to be presidents.

Of course, if you are interested, I can tell you about my specific situation in detail.

To be honest, I am not only the president of a state-owned record company, but also the president of a state-owned film company and a state-owned publishing house.

By the way, I am also a shareholder of a state-owned department store, um, in your case, I am a director like you. "

Endo was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "You, you're not kidding me, are you?"

Cao Zhiqiang shrugged: "You are the director of this association, and seeing how respectful Satian-kun is to you, I am afraid that you are a highly respected senior here.

How dare I make jokes in front of people like you?

In fact, when I came to Japan this time, I originally took a public passport, and it was a business visa.

As for the purpose of my visit to Japan this time, I was originally here to discuss music cooperation, and the inviter of the cooperation is Masashi Sada's Sada Project.

Oh, by the way, if you still don't believe me, here is my passport, which has my unit and position on it, you can take a look. "

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang reached into his arms and took out his ordinary business passport.

Ordinary personal passports will not show your unit and position, but the ordinary business passport of this period will specify the specific unit and position of the passport holder in detail.

When Cao Zhiqiang applied for a passport at that time, the unit applicant was Huaxia Audio-Visual Company, and his position was the general manager, which was clearly written on it.

This kind of passport will not deceive people, as long as you look at the above position, you can show your identity.

Moreover, this kind of business passport has a much higher gold content than a private ordinary passport.

Because this does not represent an individual, but the entire unit, or a business trip.

Therefore, as long as you take out your passport, the other party will be able to prove his identity immediately when he sees the unit and position on his passport.