Wu Qingfeng 4,000 words long text heart died Lin Weizhe asked for the full copyright of Soda Green

Wu Qingfeng (center) went to the Taipei District Court yesterday for a hearing.

Singer Wu Qingfeng was accused of violating the copyright law by the former boss Lin Weizhe, the two sides finally met and confronted in court on the 11th, a little earlier he posted 2 long articles in IG, totaling nearly 4,000 words, saying that he had not publicly discussed this matter in the past 2 years, which was the last respect, tolerance and a little protection for the person in his heart who had been regarded as his father (Lin Weizhe). But in fact, this hope was disappointed, and again and again, my heart died. Now he believes that he has no debt in reason and affection, and is more reasonable and legal, benevolent and righteous, so he sued his long-buried heart.

Wu Qingfeng and Lin Weizhe turned their faces in court today, Liao Bizhen felt unworthy for her son's encounter, and her emotions collapsed and choked Lin" "You are too hateful", the Taipei Prefectural Court concluded today, and the collegial panel decided to announce the verdict on June 15.

Wu Qingfeng mentioned that on September 20, 2018, he orally told Lin Weizhe to get back the copyright of the song, and after Lin Weizhe agreed, Wu Qingfeng sent a letter of attestation on October 26 of the same year to mention this matter, and then the two parties signed the "Contract Termination Agreement" on December 6, 2018, in the presence of the lawyers of both sides, confirming the termination of the songwriting cooperation, and also writing the certificate letter of October 26 into the termination letter to fully comply with their wishes. Until April 2019, he suddenly received a letter from Lin Weizhe, and not long after, Lin Weizhe filed a false punishment, civil lawsuit, criminal punishment against him, and preemptively trademarked the title of the song he created, Wu Qingfeng's lawyer said with a bitter smile: "He (Lin Weizhe) gave you a full meal." ”

After the two sides entered the mediation court, Wu Qingfeng remembered Lin Weizhe saying, "I hope he will give me all the lyrics and songs written to Soda Green, and I want to keep my good memories of soda green", the prosecutor responded: "This request is beyond the scope of the case, you sued Wu Qingfeng, but now you ask soda green, even I feel that it is difficult for a strong man, how can you ask him to accept, don't talk beautifully and say that it is a good memory, but in fact you want something." Moreover, now that they have all been sued, it is not good. Later, he settled with Lin Weizhe outside the court, and Lin asked him to continue to authorize all the songs published by Soda Green, and he was shocked: "At that time, the beginning of the lawsuit was the song 'Ode to the Singer', but the settlement condition was the song of Soda Green past and future, nearly a hundred songs in the past, and even songs that I have not written in the future? Doesn't one doubt that this is the end? ”

However, in the face of repeated lawsuits, Wu Qingfeng died again and again, and even shed tears in court, once thought of admitting defeat and losing money, as a lesson to buy, the lawyer replied to him: "You are the first defendant to sing the songs you wrote, there is no precedent, if you do not strive to the end, you will hurt the creators who will have the same encounter in the future." Therefore, Wu Qingfeng decided to stand up for the creators who were afraid that there would be the same encounter, and at the same time, once it was clear that Soda Green's song was a target that was robbed, I also had to fight for soda Green's six people for more than ten years.

Full text of Wu Qingfeng IG:

In 2004, I wrote "Little Love Song" and wrote this lyric: "I think I am very suitable / to be a singer", in 2019, I extended the song "The Singer", "The Singer" three words I quoted myself "Little Love Song" lyrics. Today, he expressed the three words of "The Ode to the Singer", which was the advice he gave, which made me unbelievable.

I have never spoken publicly about it since it happened two years ago, except in court. I never understood why this happened, I always hoped that it was a misunderstanding, and I always felt that maybe not talking about it was the last respect, tolerance and a little protection for the person in my heart who had once regarded it as a father. But in fact, such hopes have been disappointed, and again and again, my heart has finally died, and I feel that I must explain these things to you who care about me.

【Event】

Mr. Lin and I signed a songwriting contract in 2008, which was scheduled to end at the end of 2014, but because I trusted each other, it automatically continued until the end of 2018.

On September 20, 2018, I had a meeting with Mr. Lin at his house, and I told him that I felt that I was almost 40 years old, and I had always felt the impermanence of life, and I was worried that if I died suddenly, my family would have nothing, and I hoped that the songwriting rights would be taken back to deal with myself, and he also agreed.

I think that in line with our relationship of mutual trust for more than a decade, speaking verbally in person is a more respectful way. I sent a letter of depository letter on October 26 to mention this matter, for fear of scaring him, I also used LINE to inform him first, and he also said that it was no problem.

Then, on December 6, we signed the Contract Termination Agreement, witnessed by the lawyers of both parties, confirming the termination of the songwriting cooperation, and also wrote the notarized letter of October 26 into the termination letter to agree to it with "all the wishes". Mr. Lin also personally confirmed with the general manager of Universal Copyright on the phone that I would handle the copyright myself after that, and also sent me a message that "before December 31, these transfer objects will know that you are about to do it yourself."

Originally, I wanted everything to end quietly, but Mr. Lin asked me to draft a draft, and I had to make a public statement on December 31, saying that I would handle my own work in the future. I remember he kept telling me to deal with it properly, to get together and disperse, and to hope that we could set an example and tell everyone that not every artist and agency ended up tearing their faces. Later, I also publicly announced the end of the cooperation, without the slightest doubt that we still have the possibility of surviving any contract.

Until April 2019, I suddenly received his depository letter, I was very surprised, not to mention that I sang my own composition on the show many times in the middle, and he never had any reaction. After receiving the letter, I kept in touch with him, for several days he did not answer the phone, I used various communication software messages he did not reply, and finally with email, he replied that the songwriting authorization was still on him.

Not long after, Mr. Lin began to file false punishments, civil lawsuits, and even criminal offenses against me, and also trademarked the names of the songs I composed. My lawyer smiled wryly and said, "He gave you a full meal."

In October, after meeting Mr. Lin for the first time after the defendants, I remembered that the prosecutor wanted to promote reconciliation and asked him, "If you want to reconcile, what are your conditions?" I remember him saying, "I want him to give me all the songs he wrote to Soda Green, and I want to keep my fond memories of Soda Green!" "I remember that the prosecutor responded to his request on the spot that it was beyond the scope of the case, you sued Wu Qingfeng, but now you are asking for soda green, even I feel that it is difficult for a strong man, how can you ask him to accept, don't say it is a beautiful memory, but in fact you want something." Moreover, now that they have all been sued, it is not good.

Later, when I tried to reconcile him out of court, he made the condition that he would continue to authorize all the songs published by Soda Green without my consent, and told me that "only he knows how best to use my songs." At that time, the beginning of the lawsuit was the song "The Singer", but the settlement condition was the song of soda green past and future, nearly a hundred songs in the past, and even songs that I have not written in the future? Doesn't one doubt that this is the end?

【Dead heart again and again】

After several appearances and reports, many people gradually discovered this incident, but what you don't know is that what you see is only the tip of the iceberg. For more than two years, I have received numerous letters, once a few weeks, and dozens of pages at a time. The pleadings, which should have spoken of the law, became more absurd and offensive and emotional words than ever. What you are angry about when you stumble upon the report is my daily heartbreak.

Agreeing not to renew the contract, and to sing their own songs in peace and keep to themselves, they are described as ignoring the law and discipline and constantly inflating their rights. ；

In order to inherit the contract he signed without me, but it was said that the default was first, trying to dominate the hard bow;

A creator and copyright holder is called an unclean hand by the authorized person; the court is saddened by the past, but it is described as his arrogant and arrogant and indomitable domineering mentality and practice, which is completely different from the poor image of ChuChu at the previous court session.

Before the Kaohsiung concert, I was questioned by the audience that I could not sing my own songs, but said that I was using the sad appeal of the creators not to sing their own works, in an attempt to win the sympathy of the public, in order to hype the publicity of the concert heat;

Say a Chinese department graduate misinterprets email text to this extent;

Even the lawyers appointed by Mr. Lin at that time testified in court that everyone knew that the three contracts had been closed. The other party can write that Mr. Lin has made a hidden concession, a concession and a fulfillment, saying that I am jaw-dropping;

When the other party proposed a false punishment and asked the court to order me not to use my own work for four years and four months, they said that freezing my work would have little impact. In order to defend, we put forward the sales of "Astronaut" and the record of past songs, at which time the other party responded that "because of the large sales volume, we should tolerate its infringement ... but it is still complacent about it... Is it not that the rich and powerful can infringe at will and can not be legally responsible", the little love song song is not famous, and it is not inextricably linked to Wu Qingfeng. The little love song has only 16.19 million views... it is difficult to say that it is not too inflated in its own evaluation, unparalleled beauty of only 10.19 million views, etc. Argue that freezing my work has little impact on a singer-songwriter.

Such words have lasted for two years, and the mention here is only the tip of the iceberg, and I really can't tell whether it is the words of Lawyer Lin Jiaying and Lawyer Zhang Zhipeng who wrote the petition, or the meaning of Mr. Lin himself, but in any case, even if it is the lawyer's meaning, it must have been agreed by Mr. Lin; even if it is Mr. Lin's meaning, it is also written by the lawyer.

Time and time again, I really couldn't believe that these words were being spoken from a population that I had once considered a father. I have always blindly believed in him and am always grateful for the reward, why should I be treated like this? Just because of non-cooperation, the friendship of more than ten years is not important? Those people he once said were family, that they were partiers, and that they were good to gather and disperse, are all fake?

On the Internet, many legal people who have seen the fragments to express their opinions say that Qingfeng made a mistake that he did not state in writing three months ago that he would not renew the contract, but they did not know that my brokerage contract contained copyright provisions, and in December 2018, the newly signed "Contract Termination Agreement" between me and Mr. Lin terminated the three contracts of songwriting copyright, brokerage and recording, and the copy of the termination letter publicly declared that it was a written document that did not renew the contract, which also said: The future contract amends or replaces the previous contract, It is not necessary to do so in the three months prior to December 31 of that year.

At the last trial, Mr. Lin's then-appointed lawyer had a testimony that surprised me, she said that when the contract was terminated in 2018, she asked Mr. Lin about three contracts, and Mr. Lin replied to her: "The copyright has long been negotiated, it is the part that is not controversial, and the other two should be written clearly because there is a job that needs to be handed over." Mr. Lin gave her a contract with a record contract and said that the songwriting contract could not be found. I was surprised that I knew that all of Mr. Lin's contracts were handed over to the accountant Miss Zhang for safekeeping, and he told the lawyer that the same week that the contract could not be found, and I also asked the accountant Miss Zhang for a song contract to see, it was impossible to find. This sentence makes me wonder in horror, was there an ulterior motive in the first place?

The last time the trial was held, I did not expect that I would cry, and in the testimony of the witnesses, I recalled too many details of the past that I did not want to recall, including that Mr. Lin was very worried that I was not willing to accept tencent's contract, and he would default; but even the witnesses were surprised that I accepted that Mr. Lin wanted me to undertake it; I asked Mr. Lin if I could hire you as a producer but Mr. Lin refused to cut it off; after the agreement ended, I even took Mr. Lin's hand and told him: "It doesn't matter if you don't want to work together, we can still be family." "...This kind of thing really made me not hold back my emotions for a while.

I cried, not because I wanted sympathy, but because I had real feelings. I cried because I was completely dead to this point, like going through the process of "losing my father" for the second time. I cried because I thought about everything for him, but in the end I got something, and it was ironic that all this was witnessed by the "opposing lawyer" at that time.

What I want to say to every creator

At the beginning of the incident, I was struggling to sing "The Singer" in the final of "Singer 2019", I did not tell the people around me what happened, and I went back to the hotel every day to cry silently.

Frankly, at first I asked the lawyer, "Can we just concede defeat?" If he asks for money, he will pay as he says, and when he spends money to learn lessons and recognize a person, he will not have to waste his life on him. "I'm very heartbroken, but I really don't want to put my mind into this matter, according to our understanding of his past many lawsuits with other subjects, he is always entangled in litigation, and for me as a creator, I initially wanted the copyright to be on myself, that is, I felt that life is impermanent, because I cherish life, cherish time, and now I have to waste so much life litigation, how good if I can use this time to write songs?

But the lawyer said: "You were the first defendant to sing a song you wrote yourself, there is no precedent." If you don't fight to the end, you will hurt the creators who will have the same encounter in the future. "Because of this, I have been desperately facing the creators of the future that I don't know, but may face the same thing. At the same time, once I saw that Soda Green's song was a target for robbery, I also had to fight for soda green for more than ten years.

Our environment and education from childhood have always been taught to respect the teacher and patience is a virtue, but it is these teachings that make me too late, because of gratitude, never doubt, blindly believe, and finally become like this. For respecting the teacher and being grateful, I think I have always been the best, without any shame, emotion, and actual gains, I believe that I have repaid my gratitude a million times. But when encountering wrong things, endless "patience" is not a virtue, it will only connive and spoil others, and eventually it will not only devour yourself in turn, but also be more likely to harm others, and even watch your favorite mother and family members sad with you.

I hope that every young creator will remember to read the contract clearly from the beginning. Always be grateful and work hard to reciprocate, these are all things that are taken for granted, but on the one hand, it is more natural to protect yourself. If the elders you work with are upright, you won't get angry that you "reasonably" ask for your rights. I hope that all creators must protect themselves and not suffer such a blow like mine, and let life be so wasted.

I never imagined such a drastic change, and I was shocked to realize that sometimes the law protects not the right people or good people, but people who know how to use the law. I didn't expect that creation sometimes becomes an original sin, and in order for my work not to be taken away, it takes so much life and so much effort. I never thought that sometimes the lawyer would stand up, not the law, not the truth, not justice, but pay his client, and that's it.

[Conclusion: I have no debt in reason and affection, and I am more reasonable and legal, benevolent and righteous]

I believe that if I say something today, I will definitely be harassed by the other party with various misinterpretations and use of the law, after all, the other party even has to sit in my private Facebook post and ask me to apologize for publishing it in the newspaper. But I'm not afraid, because not a word is a lie. I also know that there is still a long way to go in this matter, and I believe that the other party will continue to find ways to continue to squander lawsuits, and close your eyes and write a good job with money and money, and there are many lawyers who flock to it. I also hope that everyone who wants to be interested in litigation will think more about their families and children, and how you can bear to let them inquire about their families, these are all these news.

In the face of this incident, not only me, the gratuitous attack in the letter changed from targeting me to targeting six individual members of the group, and I did not expect that even Xinyi would suffer such treatment. Watching Xinyi, who was pregnant with Liujia, follow the defendant was as heart-wrenching as seeing Mother Wu face it.

I am a creator, still trying to create, I know that once music loses its soul, it is only a skill; and once the law ignores the human heart and creates loopholes, it is just words.

Socrates once said, "Not only live, but also live virtuously." "Living in this world, I believe that what I expect to have is not just the work and the name, but the goodness. I have always been unashamed, without a trace of indebtedness, in love, in reason.

(Editor: Zhang Yijia)