"Ding-deng-deng."
The corridor of the court echoed with the sound of footsteps colliding with pairs of leather shoes against the marble floor.
"If I weren't afraid of being in contempt of court, I couldn't help but applaud you on the spot, Lu!"
Saul Goodman's eyes showed appreciation, "You have the talent and potential of a lawyer. Even if you are in our profession, you can achieve a great career."
Lu Fei glanced at it and joked: "Maybe it's not you working for me, but me working for you."
"Hahaha~"
Saul Goodman, Guo Xing and others laughed and walked out of the court in unison. For a moment, the persistent media swarmed up and surrounded them.
Lu Fei stopped and stood, facing the camera calmly, giving his headphones and mobile phone ample exposure opportunities.
At this time, Guo Xing walked up behind him and whispered in his ear: "Mr. Lu, the president of Universal Music wants to give him a lift. Do you think it's convenient?"
"Let him come and save me the trouble of looking for them."
Lu Fei glanced at Wang Ben, and saw him knowingly leading someone to cover him, squeezing a way to the bulletproof vehicle, taking three steps at a time and quickly getting into the vehicle.
After a while, the white braised eggs that shone brightly in the sun followed Guo Xing, and they got on the bus one after another.
"drive."
Looking at Doug Morris sitting opposite, Lu Fei took out his wine glass with familiarity. This car was not only bulletproof and safe, but also a top-notch business model. There was also a specially designed bar in the back row.
Zhang Tianmei poured the wine one by one with a smile on her face.
Lu Fei shook his wine glass and said, "Doug, it's been two weeks, what are your thoughts?"
Doug Morris paused when he was about to raise the glass, "Lu, I remember that the time you gave us to consider has not yet expired, right?"
"Really? Now I have changed my mind, just in the past two days."
Lu Fei crossed his legs and said, "I'm even considering changing the number of investors in beats from three to two."
Doug Morris was startled, "Why, Lu?"
"What do you think? Of course it's this lawsuit!"
Lu Fei's eyes flickered and became sharper, "I am a naturally suspicious person. I don't think those small companies dare to do this. They actually applied to the court to question me. I highly doubt there is someone behind them to support them. Doug, could it be Universal? ?”
"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"
Doug Morris blurted out: "Lu, you know me. I've always been good to you, me and everyone."
"Can I still trust you?"
"Of course, I swear on my child!"
"Good!"
Lu Fei smiled and clinked glasses with him, "Then can you tell me Universal's answer now? It's been delayed long enough."
"Gulu, Guru."
Doug Morris raised his neck and drank the wine in one gulp, "Lu, I'm here to give you the answer you want. We accept your conditions. Universal Music is willing to arrange for three artists to promote beats and endorse them, and we guarantee the situation." With permission, there will be at least 2 music videos with beats ads inserted in the album."
A little sincerity, and one more!
Lu Fei raised his eyebrows, "Who are you planning to arrange?"
Doug Morris said generously: "You take your pick, and we will do their and the agent's work."
"Wary Good! Where is the content authorization for YouTube?"
Lu Fei's eyes hinted at Zhang Tianmei pouring the wine, "You know, I could have taken advantage of the 'safe harbor principle' stipulated in the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but just like my original intention when I founded Spotify, it was for the U.S. recording industry. future considerations.”
"I know, Lu, you don't have yourself in your heart."
Doug Morris secretly slapped the rainbow fart.
"That's right, there is only one big cause to save the music market." Lu Fei raised his hand and raised his glass: "Cheers."
Doug Morris drank heavily and said with a smile: "Lu, we don't expect to get 70% of YouTube's share like Spotify. Our biggest demand is to protect the copyright owner's royalties and strengthen the copyright supervision of uploaded content. This condition is not excessive. Bar?"
"No, not at all."
Lu Fei, Guo Xing and others looked at each other and grinned: "And don't worry, Doug, although the share ratio will not be higher than Spotify, I can guarantee that one day in the future, YouTube will definitely surpass Spotify. It will become the number one contributor to the profit of the recording industry, and it will also be the best showcase platform for your signed musicians, I promise!"
While talking, the cell phone rang suddenly.
Zhang Tianmei took a closer look and offered it with both hands: "Mr. Lu, this is the phone number of the president of Sony Music."
"Look, Doug, Andy's phone call is such a coincidence. It seems like you two actually bumped into each other."
Lu Fei glanced sideways and looked at Guo Xing: "Old Guo, I see that music players and mobile phones will be launched as scheduled. The headphones can be moved forward first."
………………
At the same time, in the car that ran away from Lu Fei's car, Steve Cooper's face had been stretched out from the moment he came out of the court, as if it had been coated with a lake of slurry.
"What was the result of today's inquiry?"
The caller was Edgar Bronfman Jr., who was far away in his company's office in New York, pacing back and forth, anxious and agitated.
"Cut, do the cutting now!"
There was a hint of severity in Steve Cooper's voice.
"Isn't questioning harmful to Lu at all?"
Little Edgar Bronfman's heart skipped a beat.
"Disadvantage? It's so advantageous. Lu is really a genius."
Steve Cooper couldn't help but sigh: "I actually thought of turning the court inquiry into a show for product promotion. What a good idea. We must immediately discuss cooperation with Logic to invest in beats. As long as Lu Zai is there, I am sure this will be a big seller in the future." s brand!"
"What!"
Little Edgar Bronfman did not expect that his attitude would be so resolute, and he exclaimed: "Cooper, is this really the only way to go?"
"The outcome has been decided! You must tell those idiots of the plaintiff to be smarter, admit defeat, and accept defeat. Then we can still find time to help them, but if they do something stupider than questioning Lu , we were the first to refuse.”
Steve Cooper appeared to be warning the five independent labels involved in the lawsuit, but he was actually giving Edgar Bronfman Jr. a back-handed warning.
When he heard the sound, his face immediately turned blue and white.
There is no way to wash away the shame by stepping on Lu Fei as a stepping stone!
Even if the situation is reversed, he still has to kneel down and tightly hug the thick and hard thigh of logic.
"Not enough, not enough."
Steve Cooper muttered into the phone.
"What's not enough?"
Little Edgar Bronfman frowned.
"The conditions we negotiated were not enough."
Steve Cooper's eyes were bright: "Universal, Sony, and EMI will definitely try their best to please Logic, and Warner will also have to show Warner's attitude. China attaches great importance to the oil pipeline, and we will give the greatest sincerity to the oil pipeline. Not only must we agree For music licensing, you have to be the first to settle in and open a channel.”
is this necessary? is this necessary!
Little Edgar Bronfman felt a sense of wimpiness in his chest. He had grown so big that he had only been licked by others, not by anyone.
Fake, why should I lick a Chinese!
At this moment, senior executives swarmed in under the guidance of the secretary, all with ugly faces. The leading vice president brought bad news: "EMI has just announced that it supports Logic. If necessary, they can even testify in court to help Logic." Win this antitrust fight."
"Damn it, we have a traitor in our midst!"
Little Edgar Bronfman, who had been surrounded all the time, cursed, his anger rushed to his brain, and he smashed his wine glass on the ground in anger.
There was a snap, and the glass shattered all over the floor.
Everyone knew that he was in a bad mood, everyone kept silent, and the assistants quickly cleaned up the mess.
"call!"
Little Edgar Bronfman was panting and taking off his suit and loosening his tie, "It's all one thing on the outside and another behind the scenes. Damn, damn... How could a Chinese be allowed to do this in the United States! The United States does not Such an arrogant Chinese is allowed to exist! Damn it, why has no one killed him?"
"Ahem, calm down!"
Steve Cooper was stunned, "Little Edgar, the Bronfman family now is no longer the Bronfman family before. It can no longer withstand the torment, and your father can't stand the torment either."
"Sauri, don't take your angry words seriously."
When little Edgar Bronfman heard his old father, he regained his senses a little and said in a gentle tone: "Cooper, tell me, what should we do?"
"EMI just issued a statement. We must firmly support the logic before the other three companies, arrange a TV interview immediately, prepare a press release, and write the content..."
"Warner Music, as a partner, is very grateful to Logic for the copyright protection it has provided in recent years. As for the media reports on Logic's monopoly, it is pure slander. It is completely wrong to determine that Logic occupies a dominant position in the digital music market. In fact, Logic He is a powerful patron saint of the digital music market."
The next day, Edgar Bronfman Jr. appeared on ABC News Network's talk show, decisively abandoning his car to keep the coach, and siding with logic.
Almost within a day, Disney, Time Warner, NBC, Viacom and other media have changed the trend.
In a program, Tim Cook supported Logic on behalf of Apple and reached a tacit understanding with its mortal enemy Microsoft for the first time:
"Logic, like Apple, not only did not hinder competitors and harm users, but also achieved great success in encouraging competition. The competition between Apple and Logic is the real competitive situation in this industry. The reason why Logic is suspected of monopoly The key to this argument lies in how to define the market.
Because in the 1990s, Microsoft also occupied 90% of the personal computer market and was moving towards the goal of 100%, and it was not considered a monopoly. "
Although the words were mixed with words and sticks, Microsoft was irritated and irritated, but Microsoft was able to tolerate it and joined forces with Philips, Huacai Patriot, Universal and other companies to speak out with great momentum.
"Sony Music highly praises Logic's determination and ability to combat piracy and protect the interests of musicians... Regarding the newly launched beats yesterday, it has changed the inherent impression of headphones and opened a new era of fashion and fashion. From now on, headphones will no longer be It’s headphones, a symbol of popular elements.”
"Joanne, look, even Sony itself admits that Logic's new headphones are better. How about you come with me and buy a pair?"
Melemel stood in the dressing room backstage, taking out pieces of clothing from the open iron cabinet and putting them on.
"It's obviously more fashionable."
Stephanie Joanne rolled her eyes and put her hands in her pockets, "$299? I can't afford this fashion. Why don't you save money to record a few more songs for me and mail them to the record company!"
"Speaking of which, hey, how's it going?"
Melemel smiled: "Are your electronic pop-style songs favored by companies?"
"No, not one."
Stephanie Joanne shrugged: "The number of plays on YouTube is pretty good, 70,000 to 80,000, and one song even exceeded 100,000."
Melemel said: "I'm telling you, there's nothing wrong with your song, but there's something wrong with the name you chose. 'Stephanie' doesn't sound like a star when you hear it. You should give yourself a stage name, lady."
"Lady?"
Stephanie Joanne blinked: "What do you think about just using my YouTube name, 'lady gaga'?"
Melemel frowned and said, "Why did you choose this name?"
"Because 'gaga' is my favorite song written by Queen, called 'radio ga ga.'"
Stephanie Joanne slammed the metal cabinet shut, shouldered the guitar case, and walked side by side with Melemel on the exhaust-filled street.
The two of them walked down the street and came to a nearby Logic offline store. Through the glass, they could easily see that in the bright and simple lobby, 4 of the 8 rows of long tables were filled with beats headphones. The colors were bright and trendy. So cool.
Stephanie Joanne was chewing gum. She turned around and looked around. She saw a long queue from the door, as far as the eye could see. Some people even set up tents early just to grab a pair of beats headphones.
"Fake, it's definitely not available here. Let's go look elsewhere."
Melemel spit out the gum casually, grabbed Stephanie Joanne, and ran around, visiting every store she was familiar with. They were either overcrowded, or sold out, and even as soon as she entered the door, she saw the manager of the mall talking. He raised his voice and urged the shipment urgently.
"Mel, I think we'll forget it today and come back to buy it during the Black Friday shopping festival. There will definitely be discounts then."
Stephanie Joanne looked around and saw teenagers, young people, students, white-collar workers, black people, white people of all ages, occupations and skin colors crowded together, scrambling to get beats headphones, crowded The picture is spectacular.
"Okay, that's all."
Melemel sighed dejectedly: "There are still so many people trying to grab it for US$299!"
"I don't understand why either."
Stephanie Joanne looked shocked, and suddenly there was a burst of noisy yelling from behind, which made her tremble all over.
They suddenly looked back and saw that a scalper wearing a mask had bought 50 pairs of headphones at once, occupying almost a quarter of the entire mall. They immediately received angry looks from everyone.
He was also keenly aware of the public outrage, so he carried four separate bags and hurriedly walked outside the mall.
"Mother Fuxk! It's because of people like him that I can't buy headphones." Melemel was so angry that he stamped his feet, and by some strange combination of circumstances, he carried the bass and chased her all the way.
Seeing this, Stephanie Joanne had no choice but to follow her and ran to the street where there was a parking meter. She saw the scalper happily loading goods into his car, but did not notice that a white van suddenly stopped.
"Wow~"
Two masked men quickly got out of the car and surrounded the scalper one after another. Naturally, they refused to hand over and tried to resist.
"Fakeyu! You asked for this!"
The masked man cursed and punched Yellow Ox in the face, causing blood to flow from his nose.
As if giving in, scalper watched helplessly as the masked man carried the headphones into the van, staggered back to the passenger seat, and while they were carrying them, suddenly opened the door and pulled out a gun.
"boom!"
The crisp sound of gunfire instantly broke the calm of the street.
"ah!"
"Oh my God!!"
Stephanie Joanne panicked, quickly pulled the already confused Melemel, and hid under a car, when she heard gunshots ringing in her ears.
"Bang bang bang!"
As the gunshots continued, Stephanie Joanne hugged Mellemel, who was so frightened that she cried, and kept praying silently in her heart.
Finally, when the magazine was empty and the sound of gunshots disappeared, he dared to have the courage to poke half of his head out. In his sight, two masked men had been shot several times and fell in a pool of blood.
The air was filled with the faint smell of blood.
