"Flowers", a TV series that depicts the story of old Shanghai, has become popular and has also made the audienceRelive the first decade of the last century's classic songs.
A 30-episode TV series uses 57 soundtracks, which shows its degree of care.
You must know that the current songs are copyrighted, and those put into TV series for commercial use require copyright.
So just buying the copyright of a song costs a lot of money, but it still inevitably has a lot of troubles.
No, on the 29th, singer Zhao Chuan posted on Weibo that the crew of "Flowers" used their song "I Am a Little Bird".But he didn't contact himself to ask for the right to record.
In this regard, Zhao Chuanfang was contacted, but Zhao Chuanfang's staff said:"No interviews, no responses. ”
And Fang Zedong, the producer behind "Flowers", responded on the same day:
"We have contacted Zhao Chuanhe's copyright team for the first time with Global ** yesterday, and made corresponding explanations and communications, and met today to further show our cooperation records and resolve relevant misunderstandings. ”
*The content of copyright is indeed very complicated, and it is generally easy for outsiders to misunderstand, one will be the right to lyrics and music, and the other will be the right to recording, melon-eating netizens naturally don't understand what's going on.
However, Huang An, who is also a singer, specially posted on Weibo to explain the infringement of "Flowers". Huang An and Zhao Chuan are both Taiwanese singers, and this TV series "Flowers" also used Huang An's "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream".
But because Huang An's "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" was funded and produced by Shanghua RecordsShanghua Records has the right to make sound recordings, and only the copyright of lyrics and songs belongs to Huang An.
And in the play "Flowers", only the lyrics and songs of "New Mandarin Duck Butterfly Dream" are used, and the person who sings it is Zheng Kai. Therefore, the crew of "Flowers" only needs to pay Huang An the copyright fee for lyrics and songs.
So what's the situation on Zhao Chuan's side? According to Huang An's analysis, Zhao Legend owns the recording copyright of "I Am a Little Bird".So it shows that this song should have been produced by Zhao Chuan out of his own pocket, and the record company to which the song belongs, Rolling Stone Records, was only responsible for the distribution.
And the "I Am a Little Bird" used in the drama "Flowers" is the version sung by Zhao ChuanTherefore, it is necessary to obtain authorization from Zhao Chuan.
This matter is indeed a problem that "Flowers" failed to think through, but some netizens questioned why Zhao Chuan had to make such a big deal.
A netizen believes that since Zhao Chuanfang is aware of the infringement of "Flowers", his agency should contact the producer of "Flowers" as soon as possibleWhy do you want to post Weibo to make a big deal out of it, so that the producer can apologize when he sees Weibo, Weibo is not a court, is this to force netizens to try the case?
What this netizen said does have some truth, things that can be solved privately, why do you have to move to the Internet and let netizens judge?
Some netizens even said directly:"I don't accept interviews or respond, the real purpose is to rub the heat, right? If you want to defend your rights, the correct way is to sue the court directly, instead of going online and asking netizens to ask you for an explanation. ”
There are even netizens who said:"I can help you promote the song for free, you should be stealing the fun. ”
Seeing such comments, Huang An said bluntly:"It's all hot, why do you want to steal the fun? There's no need to be so humble. ”
At this time, Duanshui netizens stood up and said:"The first time I heard the word recording rights, I thought that the copyright of the song included everything, but this was just a misunderstanding, and I believe that the crew of "Flowers" is not short of this money. ”
There are more than 50 golden songs from the 90s in the whole play, just like because Jacky Cheung's song "Stealing Hearts" was used in "Flowers", Jacky Cheung also sang "Stealing Hearts" at the concert, and thanked "Flowers" for letting "Stealing Hearts" be heard by the audience again.
If these other songs have copyrights, they will definitely not deliberately withhold the copyright of "I Am a Little Bird", after all, there is no holiday between them.
Maybe it's just because of the complicated rights of song copyright, recording rights, and lyrics rights that people are confused, and it will inevitably bring some mistakesAs long as it is best for both parties to negotiate, then everyone is happy.
However, through this incident, the topic of "copyright" has been stirred up again, which can be regarded as popularizing science for people who don't understand.
In fact, the law on the copyright of songs has existed for a long time, and in the Internet era, with the rapid development of the Internet, the "Copyright Law" has been constantly revised and improved, and now people's awareness of copyright is getting stronger and stronger.
The songs we usually hear in variety shows or film and television dramas need to be purchased by the producer, otherwise, the copyright owner of the song can file a lawsuit against them at any time.
Then some people may wonder, **'s copyright is so strict? Isn't it an infringement that everyone usually hums a few words of song at will?
In this regard, everyone can rest assured that humming by yourself is definitely not infringement, and only when you use other people's songs for commercial purposes without other people's authorization, it is called infringement.
For example, there used to be many people who liked to cover songs, and many Internet celebrities started because of covers. But covers also have to be copyrighted! Especially the cover song was posted on the Internet to win traffic.
Therefore, a few years ago, we could see that many songs were not popular in the original but were particularly popular in covers, but in recent years, there have been very few songs that have been covered.
In fact, because people's awareness of copyright is constantly improving, if the cover song is really popular, but you don't have the copyright, then you can be sued by the original song casually.
Including now Internet celebrities performing and singing in the live broadcast room, if they sing someone else's song but there is no copyright, then it is legally infringingAnd whether this infringement is qualitative or not depends on whether the original singer is willing to sue you.
This also reminds everyone that you still have to pay attention to singing online in the future.
Some people may say, isn't this too harsh, it's just singing. But the issue of intellectual property rights has always been the case, and the song is also the crystallization of the producer's knowledge, and people should have the ownership of the song.
Even for some singers, they may have to buy a copyright for the songs they sing when they hold a concert by themselves.
Because the production of a song is not an easy task. In terms of the general aspect, it should be divided into composition, arrangement, and singing.
Some singers have composers, lyricists, and arrangers, and they are only responsible for singing. For such songs, singers can't adapt them at will when they sing them.
There are also because the singer's own song is produced and distributed by a brokerage company, and if you want to sing this song again after terminating the contract with the company, you must buy the copyright.
Therefore, copyright is indeed a troublesome issue, and this time Zhao Chuande defended his rights and reasoned, as long as the two sides can resolve it peacefully in the end, it is not a big problem.