The secretary's face was full of dissatisfaction. As the coo's assistant, she had never received such treatment.
Thanks to her special position, no matter whether she is inside or outside the company, as long as she introduces herself as the secretary of the coo, visiting customers will basically give her a favor.
After all, this is Infinite Entertainment, and she is the secretary of the coo.
So, it makes her very comfortable. Although the work is very busy, I also enjoy it.
So much so that the way she spoke on the chat software began to become a bit cold, often giving people a questioning feel.
Now, that pitiful supervisor actually ignored him.
This is so rude!
Okay, since it’s so difficult for you to do something, then I’ll go there myself.
How can we, Infinity Online Entertainment, help people publish games for free?
Even the most basic copyright of the work has not been negotiated, which shows that the supervisor is incompetent!
The secretary found the person in charge of the only game in the company's internal information and dialed the number without saying a word.
As a result, the call was hung up immediately after just two calls!
what's the situation?
The secretary looked confused and dialed the number again.
The result was the same as the first time. After the call was connected, it rang twice and then hung up.
This made the secretary's already unhappy mood even more unbearable.
Are you, a small company that cooperates with our Infinite Entertainment, so high-profile?
Not even answering the phone?
The secretary dialed the number a third time with displeasure.
I thought to myself that if you hang up on me for the third time, don’t blame me for not reminding you. This is something you didn’t answer the phone and didn’t discuss!
Fortunately, the call was finally connected this time.
Along with it was a slightly younger male voice.
[Hello. Who is this? ]
Listening to the voice, the secretary suppressed his dissatisfaction and put on a business-like smile.
Although she couldn't see the little boss on the other end of the phone, this change in attitude was something she learned in the workplace.
She asked softly after clearing her throat twice.
"Hello, are you Mr. Meng? I am the secretarial assistant of the Infinite Entertainment Operations Department."
After speaking, the secretary waited for a reply. She did not tell the other party her last name because it was not necessary.
Just say what you do.
But strangely, the other end of the phone suddenly stopped responding after she finished speaking, which made her frown slightly.
Fortunately, the silence only lasted for a second or two, and the voice of the young boss, Mr. Meng, came again.
[Is it the operation department calling again this time? Okay, is there something wrong with your unlimited online entertainment? ]
again?
What's the meaning?
Did anyone else look for him before me?
Just as the secretary was thinking about it, he suddenly realized that it was Director Lian.
yes!
As for things like copyright, would Director Rei, as the person in charge, not inform him?
It must have passed before I called.
No wonder he didn't reply to the message. It turned out that he had already explained it here.
If this is the case, then Mr. Meng must have known about the copyright business that the leader was discussing, so he asked what happened.
Very good, then I don’t need to waste time explaining it to him, let’s get straight to the point!
"Mr. Meng, it's like this. First of all, I would like to apologize to you for the omissions of our supervisor Lian. Because of her business mistakes, you made a mistake in an extremely important regulation when signing a cooperation agreement with our company. .”
"It's just the product..."
[What? ]
On the phone, Meng Shu suddenly interrupted and expressed doubts.
This made the secretary who just spoke immediately grit his teeth and became angry.
"Mr. Meng, can you please hear me out? Don't interrupt in the middle, thank you."
[Oh oh oh, I'm really sorry. I'm sorry. ]
The secretary cleared her throat and continued what she had just said.
"Because of the omissions of our supervisor Lian at work, there was a problem with the ownership of the product in the contract. Because it should have been the copyright of our Infinite Online Entertainment, but because of the contract, it became your only game."
"I hope you understand this."
After saying that, the secretary didn't wait for the little boss opposite to reply, and explained again.
"Mr. Meng, do you know that our Infinite Online Entertainment has also released many other companies' products, but whether it is games or other products, without exception, the copyright belongs to us."
"We can't do things for our partners in vain, otherwise we, Infinite Entertainment, wouldn't be able to reach its current scale."
"The situation on your side is more complicated. That is, we, Infinite Entertainment, spend a large amount of money to promote your games through our own internal channels. We approve the projects, we come up with the plans, we negotiate the prices, and we also focus on human resources. This is above. But in the end, it’s just a commission and not even a copyright, which is obviously unreasonable.”
"It's like a company of our size like Infinite Entertainment is wasting time and effort on being a middleman, but it still pays for it at its own expense first. To be honest, Mr. Meng, I can't even imagine the serious consequences of this."
"In case your game does not achieve good results in the market, then our method of spending money to promote it in the early stage is simply a basket case. If we have the copyright of the work, then it is okay to say that it is our own thing after all. We failed. It failed, at least the IP is here."
"But even the copyright is not ours, so we have to take such a big risk to do uncertain promotion. Mr. Meng, if it were your company, would you accept such cooperation?"
The secretary stopped talking and handed the microphone to the other party.
Meng Shu, on the other hand, was a little funny.
He originally thought that the call was from Infinite Entertainment wanting to inquire about game development matters.
I didn’t expect it to be copyrighted.
Although the secretarial assistant Balabala said a lot, he could only sum it up in one sentence.
'Our cooperation model needs to be changed. '
Meng Shu, who was in front of the computer, was not familiar with the secretary of the Infinite Entertainment Operations Department and did not want to argue with her.
The questions she is talking about now were already asked very clearly when she was discussing cooperation with Director Lian last year.
That's what he asked Lian's supervisor at that time, what if the game didn't sell well and the sales volume was very low and the money couldn't be recovered?
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Director Lian told him directly and categorically that Infinite Entertainment did not just publish one company's games. If you lose money, you can make up for it with profits from other places. After all, this is how business is done, there is no absolute pure profit, and there are risks everywhere.
The reason for choosing to release Meng Shu's first game "Dark Forest" at that time was not only that its popularity and popularity had reached its peak in all aspects, but also because of its prospects in the horror game market.
It’s a worthy investment!
Today, Infinite Online Entertainment has made the right bet.
But what now?
Bringing up old things again?
Want to do the general ledger?
Product ownership?
Meng Shu didn't bother to pay attention at all.
[Whatever you want to say, just say it without asking me questions. ]
He responded calmly, with a hint of boredom and fatigue in his tone.
Upon hearing this, the secretary didn't care whether the young boss on the other end of the phone understood the meaning of his words, so he opened the skylight and spoke openly.
"It's very simple, Mr. Meng. Considering that it was caused by the error of our staff, the cooperation agreement between you and our company will continue to be implemented. You just need to cooperate with us to deal with some problems."
"First, your company needs to hand over the copyright of several current works, including but not limited to games, music, art, peripheral objects and other related products that our company participates in and distributes."
"Second, Infinite Entertainment will hold all future product copyrights of your company, including but not limited to games, music, art, peripheral objects, etc."
"Third, after completing the above two items, your company can continue to enjoy our company's publicity resources and promotion channels."
"That's it. We apologize for the inconvenience. I hope we can handle this matter as soon as possible, Mr. Meng."
On the other side, Meng Shu showed no expression on his face after listening to the secretary's requests.
There was no trace of embarrassment at all.
Some are just calm and indifferent.
After a while, he slowly spoke.
[Are you finished? ]
"That's it. Is your company willing to cooperate?"
Meng Shu sneered and said two words.
[hehe. ]
