pianist from the sea

Chapter 276 Buyout and the Second Millionaire
Fu Tiao's response and Lang Liangyue's apology gave everyone countless thoughts, but neither of them gave a follow-up response.

But Fu Tiao didn't care about this kind of thing, and he didn't understand such things either.

After a little tidying up of his luggage, he went directly to the main fire in Essen, waiting for his car to go back to Berlin directly.

When they came, there were three of them together, but when they left, there was only Fu Diao alone, but Fu Diao still chose the first class seat.

He planned to go back to Berlin to take a rest first, and when the concert was completely over, he would come again if there was an award, and if there was no award, just pretend there was no such thing.

There were still many emails sent to him on the road, and he replied in order according to the relationship between them. After confirming that no email was missed, he breathed a sigh of relief.

The thrill of playing a god-level performance still echoed in his body, but the response after the performance also gave him a headache and exhaustion.

He looked at his phone and wondered if he should go back and buy a tablet to use.

Or buy a slim notebook?
Fu Tiao turned his phone lightly, looking out the window and couldn't help but think so.

After all, if he uses a tablet computer, he can directly spend money to buy some pdfs of music scores to read, instead of reading those old and expensive music scores all the time.

Maybe I can spend a lot less money on music scores.

But again, the price of buying a tablet computer is not expensive. He is now in Germany. Unless he specifically applies for a visa to go to a beautiful country, there may be some discounts for buying a tablet in a beautiful country. The price you get is much higher than the price in Huaguo.

For the development of local enterprises, the EU has made electronic tariffs extremely high.

Fu Diao remembered that when he went to Satrun, which is a nationwide chain computer city on the German side, the number of dollars was equal to the number of euros.

Oh no, it seems to be about 100 to 200 euros higher.

This price is so outrageous that it’s ridiculous to open the door. It’s so outrageous.

The exchange rate of your euro is higher than that of the U.S. dollar. 1 euro can be exchanged for a little bit of U.S. dollar. If you sell it in the European Union, you can still sell it at the U.S. dollar price, and add so much money.

This made Fu Tiao a little hesitant, a little bit reluctant to buy a tablet to read the score.

Even if he now has tens of thousands of 10,000+ euros in cash, he is a millionaire with millions of liquidity.

But if Fu Tiao is really asked to buy this iPad, Fu Tiao feels that it is a little wasteful.

So he shook the phone in his hand, looked out the window, and his mind was extremely relaxed.

As an old industrial area, the Ruhr area has a high overall degree of industrialization. The scenery you can see outside the window is still a bit gray. Even though Fu Tiao has left the dark clouds and walked to a brighter place. In this place, the sunlight shines directly down on the light red eaves, shining golden light. Fu Diao still feels that the Ruhr area still looks lifeless.

There is no way, this is the characteristic of the old industrial area. With the development of the times, a large number of brain drains and countless factories have been shut down, but the environment destroyed by the factories cannot be restored to its previous state.

The people on the German side can only watch the environment getting worse and worse, but they can do nothing. They can only transform those factories into museums. They have won a lot of awards and are known as the most successful museums.

But so what?
No matter how well their museums are built and how many awards they win, the entire Ruhr area is still lifeless, and this cannot be changed.

Looking at the scenery outside the window, Fu Tiao suddenly thought of it.

But when he was in a daze, his mobile phone was rang again suddenly, he couldn't help but stare at his noisy mobile phone, and then clicked on it.

Fu Tiao temporarily put many people on the blacklist, leaving only a few people outside, so those who can get through to him must be some people on the white list.

For example, his teacher and the person in charge of the brokerage company.

He picked up the phone and said directly, "Hi, hello, this is Fu Tiao."

"Hi Fu Tiao, I'm your agent Zimmering, from Deutsche Grammophon."

Zimmerlin, his agent, the person in charge.

At this moment, he is already standing inside Deutsche Grammophon.

When he was on vacation before, he suddenly received a call from the person in charge of the Ruhr Piano Festival. Therefore, before Fu Tiao finished the performance of the day, he stayed up late and ran for more than 20 kilometers at night, walking in the middle of the forest. Arrived at the nearest station, and followed the night train all the way back to Berlin.

When he arrived in Berlin, it was almost five o'clock, the sky was almost bright, and the company was already full of working people at this time.

This is the case for people here in Germany. The eight-hour work system is the eight-hour work system.

In order to enjoy life better, many of them will choose to get up at five or six in the morning and go to work in class.

Because of the eight-hour working time, they can take a break from get off work around two o'clock in the afternoon and enjoy the noon sunshine.

The summer comes, the earlier they get up.

When the group of people saw Zimmerlin coming in, they said good morning to Zimmerlin in a very unified way, and then continued to fall into their own work, only drinking a cup of coffee between work.

The same is true for Zimmerlin. After saying good morning to everyone, he came to his seat and began to accept yesterday's work.

People at the Ruhr Piano Festival uploaded the recording of Fu Tiao's performance at the Ruhr Piano Festival to them not long after the Fu Tiao concert ended, and Zimmerin's current job is to check the integrity of the recording and confirm After the handover between the two parties was correct, they began to simply process the segmentation and submit the recording to the production department.

He tilted his head and held his mobile phone between his neck. He walked towards the production department with a cup of coffee, flipping through the documents in his hand, and asked Fu Diao.

"Dio, I want to ask where are you now?"

"I?"

Fu Diao glanced at the scenery outside the window and saw the sign in the distance. He hesitated and said: "I should be near Hesse now. I should have arrived in Kassel, because I saw the sign in the distance, Uni." Kassel (University of Kassel), and not far away there is Kassel akademie, Kassel Academy.”

"Kassel? Damn, does the train from Essen to Berlin stop in Kassel? How did I remember not to use it?"

Zimmerin muttered a few words, then shook his head and said to Fu Diao: "Forget it, this is not important. I have a few documents here that I need you to sign. Do you have a notebook over there? Or a tablet? Can a computer work too?”

"notebook……"

Fu Tiao was stunned. He was about to buy a laptop or tablet just now, but his manager called to ask if he had any. Feeling a bit of coincidence, he couldn't help but smiled and shook his head, and said directly: "No, I'm sorry, I don't have a tablet or laptop lying around, so I'm about to buy one, but I'm still struggling."

"If you buy it, it's actually good to buy a tablet. If there are no additional requirements, I don't think you need to use those ultra-thin laptops at all. After all, many artists I know are starting to use similar products. Before It was an ink screen, now it’s a tablet.”

After a few casual suggestions, Zimmerin stopped talking and continued to Fu Tiao.

"These things are all off topic. My personal suggestion is to buy one and use it. It doesn't matter whether you use it or not. I have a few documents here to transfer to you. You can see if you can sign on the document. If If you can’t sign, go back to the company and sign your name there.”

"Signature? Sign what?"

Fu Diao raised his head and glanced at the other people around him. After hesitating, he got up and walked to the toilet. After closing the door and pulling down the toilet lid, he sat on the toilet, put the phone on loudspeaker, and continued to open the email and spoke to Zimmerin. asked.

"I haven't received the document yet..."

"Wait a minute, the network on my side has a little trouble, and it is transmitting...Okay, it's done, have you received it?"

"Let me see……"

Before Fu Diao refreshed his mailbox, a message notification suddenly appeared in the mailbox. It was sent from the company mailbox of Deutsche Grammophon. It contained authorized signature letters in German and English.

Fu Diao couldn't understand German, but he could still understand some English, so he opened the English file and started reading.

Zimmerlin on the other end of the phone said to Fu Tiao: "This is the authorization document for your recording of the Ruhr Piano Festival. You authorize us to record, sell and other activities of your recording files. In short, the right to use copyright It belongs to us, within a limited time, we can record an unlimited number of times, but for each recording, we must give a share of money according to the market price... No, to be precise, it is not a share, but a buyout."

"Buyout? I don't understand. What do you mean?" Fu Diao couldn't help but ask.

Zimmerin paused for a moment, and began to explain to Fu Tiao.

"Let's put it this way, to put it in clearer terms, the number of records we are going to record this time is 11.34. For these 12 records, we will first give you a licensing fee of 3 euros. In addition, for each record we will We will directly give you a share of 400 euros, which is a total price of [-] euros. This is the price after tax. The price before tax is borne by us. At the same time, the recording and sales channels of the record, It is also our responsibility, do you understand?"

Fu Tiao nodded thoughtfully: "I probably understand."

To put it simply, this is equivalent to selling books. The first is the authorization fee, which needs to be transferred to Fu every time the factory line is opened.

Secondly, no matter whether the records are sold or not, they need to pay Fu Diao the corresponding money for all the records, not just how many copies are sold.

This is different from the previous recordings of the Chopin International Piano Competition.

The recording of the Chopin International Piano Competition is actually based on the quarterly settlement price. Every quarter, according to the quantity he sells, how much money will be paid to Fu. Share it with Fu Diao.

But Deutsche Grammophon's side is completely different. They gave all the money to Fu Diao at one time, which means that all the risks of the record are borne by themselves.

If none of the records can be sold, then in addition to losing the money for the recording, the money for Fu Tiao, and the fees for the Ruhr Piano Festival, they also lose money for shipping, money for stockpiling, and Other miscellaneous and miscellaneous expenses.

And if Fu Tiao's records sell well and are all out of stock, they can't continue to record indefinitely. They need to pay Fu Tiao another authorization fee for recording again, and then pay Fu Tiao Xiang according to the amount they recorded. corresponding fees.

Although Fu Diao didn't know how much he planned to sell his record for.

But seeing that they planned to pay him 11.34 euros for a record, he felt that the minimum price they would sell it for would be around 30 euros, or even 40 euros.

This price must have been carefully designed by them. After all, they need to be responsible for most of the expenses, and the price for Fu's adjustment must also be included in the calculation.

If Fu adjusts almost half of the price directly, then they can basically be equivalent to doing charity.

The cost of recording is barely included, but what about the cost of distribution?What about the cost of publicity?
Many things cost money.

Fu Tiao could understand this naturally, and he said without any hesitation: "Yes, there is no problem, but are there any other restrictions?"

"Well, there are no restrictions. The copyright is mainly for the convenience of the second and third burning later. At the same time, we will detect the use of copyright on the entire network. If someone uses your copyright for commercial purposes without registration and purchase, we will I will give you half of the compensation obtained."

"Why not all of them?" Fu Diao asked jokingly.

Zimmerin on the opposite side was obviously stuck, and then said with great helplessness: "Because the legal fees here are so expensive, even if it is our company's lawyer, we still have to pay the legal fees."

"Just kidding, don't mind it." Fu Tiao said immediately.

Zimmerin also tacitly ignored this matter and continued: "If you agree, then sign at the bottom of pages 4, 8, and 11. If you don't understand anything later, You can tell me and I will answer them one by one."

"Row."

Fu Diao agreed directly. He slowly looked at the document in his hand and picked out many unclear places for questioning. Zimmerin responded to Fu Diao in a way that could explain each place.

For now, Fu Tiao can't find any problems. After all, as an ordinary person, he can't compete with those top lawyers in terms of professional legal provisions. Naturally, he can't find anything in the general contracts written by these lawyers. The question comes.

After Fu Diao confirmed that the above amount was correct, he directly transferred the document to PDF, signed it and submitted it back to Zimmerin.

"Okay, I've returned the file to you."

"Okay, remember to sign your German version too. Because we are a German company, we must have German documents on file here, so you need to sign in the same place. The two documents have exactly the same meaning. You You can find a translator for translation on your own. If the German and English documents have different meanings, you can report it to us and ask for compensation through the translation of a court-certified translator."

Zimmerlin routinely explained the German document to Fu Tiao, and then received two signed emails from Fu Tiao.

After he uploaded the two documents directly to the archives through the internal network, he spoke to the staff of the production department who had been waiting there.

"Okay, the authorization has been issued, you can start working."

"Yes, Mr. Zimmering!"

The staff over there immediately nodded and left Deutsche Grammophon with the authorization letter and a lot of documents.

They were probably heading towards the factory. After all, it was impossible to record records in the company. This kind of industrial production would definitely require an industrialized process.

Looking at the staff in the distance, Zimmerin took a deep breath, and then spoke to Fu Tiao who hadn't hung up the phone yet.

"Okay, now your record is in the process of recording, and it won't be long before your first commercial record should come out. Remember to discuss it with the people in the operation department to see how to promote it... but in other words Come back, if only you left Essen later."

"What's the matter? Are you going to buy me a drink?"

Fu Tiao turned off the speaker, returned to his seat, continued to look at the scenery outside the window and smiled at Zimmerin.

But he didn't expect Zimmerin to nod directly and said: "Well, if you're in Essen, maybe I can just buy you a drink. I know a very good bar over there. Their IPA tastes very fragrant. It has a strong fruit flavor."

"I remember that there seems to be a similar bar near my house. Aren't you in Berlin now? I just bought you a drink when I come back." Fu Tiao replied with a smile, but he didn't expect Zimmerin to shake his head and refuse directly.

"If I were in Berlin, I might agree to your invitation. Unfortunately, I'm not in Berlin."

"What's wrong? Aren't you in the company now?"

"Well, I'm at the company now, but I'll leave later, I'm on the train in 15 minutes, from Berlin to Essen, to take care of some things, so I said if you're still in Essen, we might be able to Have a drink or two."

Zimmerlin closed the notebook in his hand, and all the documents have been processed.

After he put the notebook aside, he reached out and took out the mobile phone clamped around his neck, twisted his stiff neck, turned to the other side and smiled teasingly at Fu.

"Okay, keep going, if I remember correctly, you will go to Salzburg in a few days, the Salzburg concert will be held, I will go there then, See you later."

After that, he hung up the phone and spoke to the assistant who had been standing there.

"Let's go, take all the documents, let's go to Essen, and meet those group..."

"Directors of the Ruhr Piano Festival."

　12.34 euros, the exchange rate of X8, almost 98 soft sister coins

　　
　
(End of this chapter)