In 2014, when Han Han was filming the movie "After Forever", he gave Mr. Xu Jingqing, the music composer of the 86th edition of "Journey to the West", 100,000 yuan, saying that the 100,000 yuan was given to Mr. Xu Lao and director Yang Jie 50,000 yuan each.
Director Yang Jie was particularly surprised to get the money, saying: "I haven't earned so much money in so many years. ”
It turned out that Han Han used a piece of music from "Journey to the West" in the movie, "Daughter Love", and this 100,000 yuan was the copyright fee he gave.
Mr. Xu joked: "Do I have to ask Jiang Dawei for copyright fees?" ”
"Jiang Dawei personally told me that he had at least 250,000 performances per performance, at least 20 performances per month, and could earn 60 or 70 million a year."
And for each of his performances, the finale track must be the ending song of "Journey to the West" - "Dare to Ask Where the Road Is".
However, in fact, Jiang Dawei did not give a single point.
Not only did Jiang Dawei not give, from the launch of "Journey to the West" in 1986 to Han Han's copyright fee in 2014, many music in "Journey to the West" was used in various places, and few people gave copyright fees.
In 2008, when the music "Pig Eight Commandments Back Daughter-in-law" became a popular color bell, Mr. Xu only received a total of more than 8,000 yuan in copyright fees, and even one of the websites only paid 2 yuan and 7 cents!
Provoked Han Han to denounce it on Weibo
Because of the copyright matter, after several rumors, there was a gap between Jiang Dawei and Mr. Xu Jingqing.
In 2016, Mr. Xu Lao, with the help of netizens across the country, crowdfunded more than 3 million, plus more than 300,000 of his own, a total of 4 million, and held his long-awaited "Journey to the West" theme concert in the Great Hall of the People.
The four main actors in the film: "Sun Wukong" six young children, "Tang monk" Chi Chongrui, "Pig Eight Precepts" Ma Dehua, "Sand Monk" Liu Dagang all came, all of which gave their voices at the meeting.
When the music started, the audience instantly boiled over, and many people wet the corners of their eyes.
Mr. Xu said that he contacted Jiang Dawei and invited him to come, but he did not answer the phone and did not reply to the text message. Called his agent, who said there was no slot.
In 2017, singer Li Jian sang "Daughter Love" on stage. Before that, he called Mr. Xu Lao for consent and paid a certain amount of royalties.
Mr. Xu also sent a special Weibo to praise Li Jian.
Writing this, I have a question: If the cover song should be copyrighted by the original author, is it not necessary to give the copyright fee as long as there is a profit from singing other people's songs?
So, those who sing other people's songs in the live broadcast room and in various commercial performances, do they have to share a part of the income to the original author?
I thought again about Wang Feng and the masculinity of the rising sun. At that time, the wild group Rising Sun Yanggang became a hit on the stage of the "Avenue of Stars", mainly because of the cover singing of Wang Feng's "In the Spring".
At first, Wang Feng was still very happy, his song had not been red for many years, and now it was sung by others. The two people of the Rising Sun Masculine Group, Liu Gang and Wang Xu, also met Wang Feng and became "friends".
However, later, with the gradual popularity of the rising sun and the gradual popularity of "In the Spring", Wang Feng stopped working, and a paper complaint sued the two people in court, and they were not allowed to sing this song again. The reason is: infringement.
Since then, Rising Sun has never sung this song in public, and it wasn't long before the group dispersed.
Alas, it is still the old saying: "The world is bustling, all for profit, and the world is bustling, all is for profit." ”
Cover songs can be sung, and small money can be made, but it is impossible not to be interested, relying on the fruits of other people's labor to make a lot of money but not grateful, which is the key to causing problems.
