American Entertainment 1982

Chapter 144 Ordinary People Like Confrontation Stories
Benjamin Rosen looked at Tommy who appeared in front of him again: "It seems that you have seen that kind of business?"

"Long story short, Mr. Benjamin, I don't have time to talk to you about my disgusting experience in Quincy. I need 1000 million now. Lotus has replaced their VP of daily operations. The new guy I don't think I have yet To figure it out, now is the best time to pick up the bat and hit him hard on the head a few times." Tommy said straight to the point without exchanging greetings with the other party.

Benjamin looked at Tommy, who moved faster than before: "But I just made an appointment with Mr. Cohen, who is in charge of IBM's personal computer business, to talk in two days. According to your statement..."

"IBM will agree." Tommy took a deep breath and gave Benjamin an affirmative answer.

Benjamin smiled and nodded: "Okay, Tommy, I'll ask the secretary to arrange, do you want me to buy your 15% shares in the name of Compaq, or do you just want it to be an investment?"

"I hope it is a donation, and I hope our transaction is a gift." Tommy leaned forward slightly in Benjamin's direction, emphasizing: "A gift of kindness."

Benjamin sighed: "But I don't want to give a gift."

"I previously registered and established a non-profit computer industry advocacy organization called the Electronic Future Foundation. I hope you donate 1000 million to it. As a thank you for your support, I will transfer 15% of Actor's shares to you for free. At the same time, you will be personally invited to serve as the first executive director of the organization." Tommy glanced at the butler in the distance, lowered his voice slightly, and said to Benjamin.

Benjamin narrowed his pupils slightly, and after a few seconds of silence, he stared into Tommy's eyes and slowly said, "I guess you don't just want to avoid taxes."

"I, Jason White, Susan Curtis quietly initiated the establishment not long ago, and Ms. Delia Keith served as the legal director of this organization, aiming to promote the prosperity and healthy development of the computer industry." Tommy said earnestly Said.

The Computer and Communication Industry Association is an organization initiated by several computer and communication industry giants. Its members are only seven or eight large companies in the industry such as Microsoft, IBM, AT&T, Motorola, and Intel. Other companies are not eligible to be invited to join. There are competitions between them, but there are also many cooperations completed by this organization. For example, although IBM was backstabbed by Microsoft, when IBM encountered an antitrust lawsuit, Microsoft and other companies donated money to this organization and hired lobbying companies to help IBM in the name of the association. And several major companies all support IBM and so on as friends of the court.

"The first thing I want to tell those ordinary people is that in order to let the low-educated people learn computers to increase their income, Actor has encountered terrible resistance. They actually deliberately replaced the incompetent vice president and hired the powerful and powerful Kennedy family members. Come stop me, normal people love confrontation stories."

When there are no guests, photographer Peter O'Brien spends most of his time sitting in his small South End photo studio and watching TV to pass the time.

"Goodbye, by the way, let me borrow the phone." Tommy got up quickly after receiving the reply from the conversation.

"Yes, calculated according to the time, it will be after the trial is over. After all, there are many contract terms to be drafted, and although Ms. Solomon has decided to collect it now, there may be some changes in the middle. For example, Ms. Solomon discovered a better work. After all We have limited funds, so we can only keep improving." Eugene was very satisfied that the photographer in front of him understood his words.

But Pete was not so stupid as to be exaggerated. He seemed to understand something from Eugene's eyes, and asked slowly:
"I seem to understand, I became a juror, and then my photography works are appreciated and will be permanently collected."

Pete shrugged: "I seem to have been selected by the defense's legal team from a jury selection pool."

Pete seemed to be struck by lightning, and he was stunned for a long time before recovering from the news: "But I'm just an ordinary photographer, I mean, I never sent it to you..."

Hearing his words, Benjamin laughed: "You are the initiator, and I am the donor, but what our two companies have done is definitely not conscientious to the computer industry. You copied Lotus, and I copied IBM."

Tommy answered his question very quickly, almost without thinking: "Currently there are 27 individual members, most of whom are founders of small companies who were sued by Lotus to close their doors, and there are several corporate members, all of whom are from Stanford University. A small start-up company started by a college student in a garage."

"Do you have time to go to New York recently? I mean the recent schedule, because a contract needs to be signed, and Ms. Solomon also wants to talk to you about photography in person." The man who called himself Eugene asked.

Pitt continued: "But I think the formal signing of the contract, and the meeting with Ms. Solomon, will happen after the trial?"

"Sounds like a coincidence, I hope you won't delay the court decision." Eugene nodded, but didn't admit it, just calling it a coincidence.

"That's right, all photographers want their work to be collected by NCCP, and that's why I'm here. Congratulations, Mr. Pete O'Brien." The other party looked at the environment of the photo studio and said in his mouth.

Pete felt that all this was like a dream. Rosalind Solomon, a well-known female photographer, once took a group of portrait photography works of "Outside the White House" during President Kennedy's administration.

"One of your female portrait works was discovered by the well-known photographer Rosalind-Solomon of our center by chance, and she received her praise. She hopes that NCCP will permanently collect your work, which shows the power and indomitability of women. Therefore, I appear here." Eugene said with a smile: "After the contract is signed, we will pay you a fee, the total amount is about 5000 yuan, to buy out the copyright of that photo. "

"It sounds a bit like the Computer and Communications Industry Association, but the difference is that one sets a high threshold to select members, while yours is prepared to be absorbed first and then slowly selected." Benjamin gave an example and gave an example after listening. own opinion afterwards.

"No, it's more like the back garden of those big companies, using slogans dedicated to patent reform to attract those small companies to join, and by the way, Actor will shape the public image of Lotus into a patent troll, and then help big companies in the computer industry to provide valuable The list of small companies invested in, EFF is a peripheral auxiliary organization of the Computer and Communication Industry Association, and it does not conflict with EFF, and its existence can also allow the association to announce to the outside world that they do not control the industry." Tommy said to Benjamin.

Pete blurted out in surprise: "Wow, that is the Holy Land for American photographers."

Pete felt that his legs were a little fluttering, and he nodded vigorously: "Of course I have time, I can temporarily suspend business, I... oh, yes, I was selected to be a jury member in a lawsuit, and being a juror is mandatory , I can't refuse, but I... I think if Ms Rosalind-Solomon would see me, I could apply to the court for an alternate juror to take my place."

He dialed the phone: "Delia, keep an eye on the bank account, start working in the name of EFF when the funds appear, and prepare to put 170 and six lawyers in place. I want newspapers and TV in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Boston to appear about The news on this case, I want the interviews, I want the newspaper pages, Tommy Hawk, the founder of Actor, is going to start listening to his mom and do the right thing."

The other party is willing to pay you 5000 yuan for a photo?

Pitt continued: "I sympathize with the plagiarists and maybe it will change Ms. Solomon's mind."

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Any American photographer may have seen her portrait works, hoping to learn some portrait shooting skills, but now, this female photographer actually fell in love with her own work?And recommended it to NCCP?

When the wind chime sounded, he stood up and greeted him with a smile on his face: "Sir, do you need to take a photo?"

"The Electronic Future Foundation, referred to as EFF, was established to help small and medium-sized companies in the computer industry, such as providing financial support during research and development, providing relevant support to member companies that encounter court defense problems, representing their cases, or Acting as a friend of the court, protecting computer industry developers and technologies from various legal threats, resisting patent abuse in the computer industry, etc., avoiding those poor small studios in the industry, small companies encounter patent extortion like Actor, the largest It may protect the creative freedom of practitioners." Tommy ignored Benjamin's ridicule and self-mockery, and still spoke seriously about the original intention of establishing this organization. After speaking, he asked Benjamin Rosen, whose smile gradually disappeared:
"After listening to it, do you feel my conscience? Mr. Rosen?"

"Of course, NCCP uses software from Lotus and is no stranger to this company, so which side did you select as a juror? The plaintiff, the defendant, or the court?" Eugene asked as if chatting.

Benjamin said to Tommy: "You can go, the money will catch up with you, you are right, IBM will agree to cooperate, how can a large company refuse to feed the entire industry, and there is no reason to deceive the government?" monopoly, the temptation to keep it fair and open."

"Does it have members?" Benjamin and Tommy looked at each other for a moment and asked.

"For compliments, you can tell me slowly at some free time in the future, sir." Tommy said, looking directly into Benjamin's eyes.

Pete froze for a moment: "Sir, where do you say you are from?"

"Then you'd better not talk about it when you meet Ms. Solomon. She hates plagiarists because she has been plagiarized. Although I know you don't vote casually, I guess if she knows your personal tendency If the plagiarist maintains a sympathetic position, I'm afraid she won't want to see you too much." Eugene said with a smile as if kindly reminding Pete that he needs to pay attention to some small problems in the meeting.

"Mr. O'Brien, nice to meet you." Wearing an Armani suit and combing oiled hair, the other party shook hands with the dazed Pete with a smile on his face: "I'm Eugene Brown from the Creative Photography Center in New York."

Pete nodded: "Yes, you have heard of it?"

"Is that the software company's lawsuit against plagiarists?" Eugene asked, turning his head, now looking into Pete's eyes.

Benjamin nodded and said slowly: "Everyone has misunderstood you, including me. Everyone thinks you are greedy, but in fact you are doing a good deed. For those small companies, although they need to donate EFF members There are hidden conditions such as priority investment rights, but at least you are willing to help newcomers in this industry, and those big companies are also very happy to join. After EFF provides this priority investment right, you can choose packages worth investing in according to your company's future plans Companies, in short, small companies think that they are in a fair and open industry environment, while large companies successfully use EFF to select support objects. The two parties complete patent sharing and the construction of industry ecology within this organization. Instead, those who do not join will end up being rejected. For any other computer practitioner to create it, it may make those young people and the outside world suspicious, but you are the most suitable one, because your encounter with Actor makes people believe that you have experienced pain before doing this, But now I know that you chose the poor Lotus company because you were preparing to set up this organization first."

"New York Center for Creative Photography, NCCP." The other party repeated.

"That's your own imagination, believe me, we decided to collect your works, mainly because your works are good enough." Eugene stretched out his hand to Pete, and said goodbye with a smile: "I just came to inform you that your works will soon be collected by NCCP Message, I hope you arrange a good time, we will contact you at any time later, goodbye, Mr. O'Brien."

"I won't sympathize with plagiarists, I won't..." After thinking clearly, Pete said repeatedly.

Eugene walked out the door without responding to Pete's words behind him. After he walked out of the photo studio, Eugene got into a black business car: "Inform Mr. Kennedy that the juror selected by the other party has settled another one."

　The second update~ Sorry, it's a little late~ The child has a little problem, which delayed some time.

　　
　
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