The meeting in the Western Slope Institute conference room continues!
The question of how much royalties should be paid really stumped all the people in the room.
I can’t blame these people for not having common sense, but it’s because the relevant regulations on royalties have been changing over the years, and it’s not an exaggeration to say that they change every day.
If you are not a person who specializes in eating this bowl of rice, you really may not know the details.
"I published a book when I was young, and I seemed to have received more than 5,000 yuan in royalties!" Guo Yamin said with some pride.
"Lao Guo, are you talking about five years ago?" Zheng Aiguo asked with a smile.
"About, maybe five or seven years!"
"It's no wonder. The remuneration at that time was indeed generous. At that time, the higher authorities proposed the "Double Hundred Policy" of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend" and determined that the system of diminishing remuneration would not be implemented within the six quotas, which greatly inspired writers His passion for creation, at that time many writers could live off their royalties!"
Then Zheng Aiguo said again: "It's a pity that this remuneration system was abolished in the 1960s, and now it seems that no money is paid for printing books!"
"If you don't give me money, then who will write the book?"
"Probably not!" Zheng Aiguo said again.
At this time, Zhou Yang knocked on the table and said: "It is true that no remuneration was paid before. It was more than ten days ago that the National Copyright Administration formulated and issued the "Notice on the Trial Implementation of Remuneration and Subsidy Measures for News and Publishing", which officially restored and abolished the previous The royalties system adopts a new royalties calculation method!"
"According to the new regulations, the fee for a 1,000-word manuscript is 2-7 yuan, and the translation fee is 1-5 yuan for 1,000 words. The payment is only based on the number of words, and no printing fees are paid!"
Guo Yamin immediately said: "Since there are regulations, just follow the regulations. What else is there to discuss!"
Zhou Yang immediately said: "The main reason is that the situation of the books we are producing now is different. The previously printed works were finalized at once, and it is easy to calculate the royalties."
"But what we are doing now is teaching aid materials, and the original content needs to be deleted or revised every year. This requires the author to re-do it every year, which makes it difficult to get the word count and royalties."
"Secondly, if the manuscript fee is too small, people may not continue to cooperate with us. After all, these teaching aids are making a lot of money now, and you have seen it. I don’t know how many people want to cooperate with these authors with money at the moment!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Manqiu said anxiously: "This is the chicken that lays golden eggs. We can't let them enter other people's henhouses!"
"That's right, director, don't let the small lose the big!"
"Director..."
Zhou Yang immediately signaled everyone to be quiet, and then said: "Actually, I have considered this issue before. I think it is unreasonable to give people a fixed royalty. After all, we print millions of sets every year and make tens of millions in profits. We only give people No one will be happy with the eight hundred dollars!"
"So my idea is to give the author a royalties, no matter how much is printed every year, only 1% of the royalties will be given to the author."
As soon as these words came out, everyone fell silent.
Although 1% may not sound like much, but everyone just heard that the monthly income of the printing factory is more than 2 million.
That 1% royalty is 20,000 yuan, or 240,000 yuan a year!
If such a large amount of money is given to one person or several people, no one dares to make the decision!
"Director, are there too many?" Financial Director Li Manqiu said cautiously.
"Is that much? Don't forget that we may earn tens of millions from these books!" Zhou Yang said.
To be honest, if the authors of these books were not his eldest brother and Lao Zhangtou, Zhou Yang would at least give people 5% of the royalties.
Who would consider those dead rules at this time? Let’s keep people here first.
But since the authors of these books are his close relatives and friends, he cannot be too active in this matter, otherwise, it will easily cause other people to misunderstand.
Guo Yamin obviously saw Zhou Yang's concerns and thoughts, and immediately said: "I think 1% of the royalties are already very small. I would say it is reasonable to give people at least 5% to 8%."
"I also think 1% is not much. We have already eaten the meat, so we have to leave some soup for others!"
"I agree with the director's opinion..."
Seeing that most people agreed with his opinion, Zhou Yang immediately said: "After all, this matter involves the distribution of huge funds. I will report this situation in writing to the superior department later."
"In addition, I have arranged the income of the printing factory in this way. 50% of the 55% net profit will be turned over to the financial office of the institute, and the remaining 4% will be transferred to the printing factory to increase equipment and provide benefits to staff and cadres. What do you think about this?”
"I have no opinion!"
"I agree!"
"I agree..."
After seeing that no one had objections, Zhou Yang said again: "In addition to the printing factory, this research institute also has a lot of income from the military industry department. I think we should formulate a unified distribution principle for these incomes."
"My idea is that no matter how much income is generated in the future, we must ensure that 80% of it is used for research on various projects. Half of the remaining 20% will be used for infrastructure renovation of the institute, and the remaining half will be used For everyone in the institute, including improving life, improving welfare benefits, etc., what do you think about this?"
"80% is used for scientific research. Do we have so many projects?"
"Yes, we only have one early warning aircraft project now, so how much money can we use?"
"Who says it's not..."
Zhou Yang knocked on the conference table again, and then said: "Before, due to lack of funds and manpower, many of our projects had to be shelved, but now that we are not short of money, these projects will naturally be launched one by one! "
"So in addition to the early warning aircraft that is already in the research laboratory, we will also launch two military projects and one civilian project, including a helicopter, a new fighter jet and a civilian color TV set."
As soon as these words came out, it was like dropping a heavy aerial bomb on calm water, causing huge waves.
"Oh my God, are we going to launch a fighter jet and helicopter program?"
"Do we have people who understand aircraft research?"
"Our director is really generous, it's so exciting..."
Zhou Yang coughed lightly and said again: "We will discuss the project separately later. Now let me tell you what you think about this distribution plan!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Guo Yamin was the first to say: "I think this distribution is good, I have no objection!"
"I agree in principle, but do I have to ask my superiors for instructions on such allocation?" Zheng Aiguo said.
"I agree too!" Yan Haisheng said.
"I have no opinion..."
Seeing that no one had any objections, Zhou Yang immediately said: "Since everyone agrees, then the matter is settled!"
Then Zhou Yang said again: "Director Gu, later you will draft a document based on today's meeting decision, and then submit it to the superior department. I will also send my request for royalties to the author!"
"yes!"
"In addition, after each department returns, they will re-examine their respective department's scientific research funds. What equipment or experimental materials are needed can be reported to me as long as the requirements are reasonable." Zhou Yang said.
"That's great. If I had known that our institute had become more prosperous, I wouldn't have had to pay for that play!" Guo Yamin said with a smile.
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help laughing again!
At this moment, Zhou Yang's little secretary Xu Linfang hurriedly opened the door and walked in, and then whispered a few words in Zhou Yang's ear.
At that moment, Zhou Yang stood up and said, "Okay, that's it for today's meeting, adjourn!"
After announcing the adjournment of the meeting, he strode out of the conference room, walking a little hastily...
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(This is where the remuneration system begins)
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The girl who is in first grade has a day off this afternoon and has invited some children to go out to play. Lao Cang can only stay up late coding to make time for others.
It's four o'clock in the morning and I'm still coding hard. It's really hard to be a father!
The little girl who is six or seven years old also knows how to make friends. Thinking about staying at home every day, she feels worse than her own little girl!
