Chapter 633: Open Copyright, Fanfiction Wars
"Brothers, the fantasy novels are very popular. If you haven't read Journey to the East, hurry up and read it."
"Mythical novels really became popular because of Journey to the West. I bought Journey to the East as soon as it was released. I didn't do anything else but just wanted to see what it was like."
"That's true. Actually, I think Journey to the West is the second best book in the world, so Journey to the East shouldn't disappoint us too much."
"I'm sure you won't be disappointed. I've seen it. Although it's not that great, I mean compared to Journey to the East, it's pretty good."
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In an instant, it can be said that many people left messages in the comment section.
All in all, this is basically everyone's recognition of the fantasy novels.
Before this, many people did not like to read novels about gods and demons. They thought that novels about gods and demons were all fucking dead, so what else was there to read?
But because of the sudden emergence of "Journey to the West", more people began to read novels about gods and demons.
We have said before that what an industry needs is a phenomenal work, or a phenomenal person to lead it.
Just like there is "The Wandering Earth" in science fiction, Yu Xiaoshu's "The Wandering Earth" has driven the development of science fiction as a whole.
Then he became the second most powerful person in the world in today's mythological novels.
Although many people do not know who the Second Best in the World is, they only need to know that the Second Best in the World wrote the phenomenal work "Journey to the West".
Then, the second-best-selling novel "Journey to the West" created a phenomenal sales volume, which then led to a surge in sales of other mythological novels.
Many people did not read novels about gods and demons before, but after reading Journey to the West, they wanted to continue reading novels about gods and demons. After all, they thought it would be a good idea to learn more about them.
In such a situation, it is not wrong at all to say that "Journey to the West" boosted the subsequent sales of other products.
What no one expected was that the second best in the world actually wrote another novel.
And it is "Journey to the East".
It cannot be said that this novel has nothing to do with "Journey to the West", because the systems seem to be inextricably linked.
You can consider "Journey to the East" and "Journey to the West" as belonging to the same system.
That's amazing.
Because if the fantasy novels can form their own system, then if everyone works well in this system, is it possible to achieve twice the result with half the effort? ? ?
Many people feel quite excited and thrilled.
Especially those in the industry.
If, if the copyright of Journey to the West could be opened, and everyone discussed the system of novels about gods and demons in Journey to the West, would it be possible to further promote novels about gods and demons? ?
Is it possible?
It is indeed possible.
For this reason, many people in the industry want to ask Tianxia Dier whether the copyright can be opened up? ?
While everyone was discussing this, Tianxia Dier directly posted a status: "I hope the novels about gods and demons will get better and better, and thank you for your love for Journey to the West and Journey to the East. From now on, everyone can use the system on their own, and there is no problem even creating fan fiction."
Good job.
Such a statement immediately caused an uproar in the industry.
“The copyright is actually open? Hahaha, why don’t you write a fan fiction right away??”
"I think, given the current popularity of Journey to the West and Journey to the East, there is really no problem in writing fan fiction."
"Yeah, I even think it would be popular if I wrote fan fiction at this time."
“Yes, I think it will be popular too.”
"No matter what you think, I'm going to write it first."
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While the industry was discussing this, the well-known website Qi Chuang Novel Network directly launched a fan fiction contest for Journey to the West.
After all, Tianxia Dier has already said that he will open up the copyright for free.
In this case, why not take advantage of the opportunity to launch a writing contest?
After all, in the physical world, novels about gods and demons are completely dead, but in the online world, novels about gods and demons almost belong to the category of fantasy and fairy tales, and fantasy and fairy tales in online literature are not dead.
Therefore, 'Qichuang Novel Network' took the lead in launching a call for submissions.
Later, following 'Qichuang Novel Network', several other novel websites also began to solicit articles.
If it were just that, it would be fine.
What no one expected was that film and television companies also began to collect some fan copyrights.
It's very simple. Since we can't buy "Journey to the West" and "Journey to the East", after all, the copyrights of these two works are owned by Baiqian Media, so we might as well buy the fan copyrights.
After all these years, the routines of these film and television companies have not changed at all.
If we cannot buy back the copyright, then we will find ways to plagiarize and follow the trend.
Think about the situations in several dramas that Yu Xiaoshu has filmed before, basically every one of them is like this.
As long as something becomes slightly popular, there will definitely be people who will copy it and follow the trend.
But to be honest, those who basically followed the trend have all failed.
But it didn't work.
These people will never change.
They don’t know, or don’t know how to judge which one is good and which one is bad, or even which IP will be successful and which IP will fail.
Anyway, as long as it’s hot, as long as it looks like it could go viral, or even looks like it could generate buzz, then you should definitely buy it.
In the past two months, which IP has been the most talked about?
In the past two months, which IP set a historical record?
Which IP has everyone been talking about in the past two months?
Of course it’s “Journey to the West”.
But everyone knows that the copyright of "Journey to the West" has been given to Baiqian Media, and then many people remembered that Baiqian Media has never failed.
So these film and television companies started to go crazy.
Coupled with the huge success of the first season of the "Journey to the West" animation, everyone believed that what Baiqian Media chose would not be bad.
In such a situation, naturally there is no need to say anything else.
But some people are a little worried.
That is the copyright that Tianxia Di Er opened, but Baiqian Media has already bought the copyright of "Journey to the West", so does Tianxia Di Er have the right to open the copyright of the fan works? ?
Or maybe you, Tianxia No.2, don't pursue the matter, but what if Baiqian Media wants to pursue it? ?
For this reason, some people also want to verify Baiqian Media.
The reporter first-hand revealed that: "Baiqian Media expressed the hope that the industry will develop in a healthy way and that the fantasy novels can get better and better, so they respected the opinion of Tianxia Di Er and expressed understanding and support for the copyright of the fan works."
As for Yu Xiaoshu, he reposted the post on Tianxiadier's social platform and wrote: "I hope there will be more and better fan fiction of Journey to the West."
Now everyone can rest assured.
Many people feel that they can write with confidence.
Yu Xiaoshu actually has an idea about the fan writing competition about "Journey to the West" on "Qichuang Chinese Network".
He felt that he could write "The Legend of Sun Wukong".
After all, this is also a big IP.
However, Yu Xiaoshu was not prepared to sign the contract.
Because if the contract is signed, then the copyright will belong to 'Qichuang Chinese Network'.
If we don’t sign a contract, how can we gain influence?
Yu Xiaoshu does have a solution, but for now, he has to write "The Legend of Sun Wukong" first.
"The Legend of Wukong".
When the four people got here, they saw a dense forest in front of them and no road was available.
"Wukong, I'm hungry, find me some food." Tang Seng sat down on a rock and said in a dignified manner.
"I'm busy, can't you go find it yourself?... It's not like I don't have legs." Sun Wukong said, leaning on his stick.
"Are you busy? What are you busy with?"
"Don't you think this sunset is beautiful?" Sun Wukong said, his eyes still looking at the horizon, "Only by looking at this can I insist on walking westward every day."
"You can look around and search as long as you don't bump into a tree."
"I don't do anything while I watch the sunset!"
"Sun Wukong, you can't do this. You can't bully the bald guy like this. If you starve him to death, we won't be able to find the West. If we can't find the West, the curse on us will never be lifted." Zhu Bajie said.
"Bah! When is it your turn to speak, you pig-head!"
"What did you say? Who are you calling a pig?!"
"It's not a pig, it's a pig's head! Humph..." Sun Wukong sneered while gritting his teeth.
"You dare say that again!" Zhu Bajie raised his rake and was about to rush forward.
"What are you arguing about! I'm going to sleep! If you want to roll over, get away from me!" Monk Sha yelled.
The three villains glared at each other.
"Fight, fight, kill one less." Tang Seng stood up and said, "You are the boss, I will find food for you, isn't that enough? It would be better if the monster eats me, then you can cry."
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Because the number of words was not large, Yu Xiaoshu took almost half a day to finish writing it.
Like many interpretations, in the story of Journey to the West, many of the hardships encountered by Tang Monk and his disciples were caused by the negligence or poor supervision of gods and Buddhas.
Due to the negligence and poor supervision of the gods, their mounts or subordinates came down to earth and harmed the human world, but the final result was that they were raised by the gods and received no punishment. They were taken to heaven and returned to their original lives. Harming the human world was just a game to spice up the boring and tedious life in heaven.
And as their owners, you don't have to take any responsibility at all.
On the contrary, Sun Wukong and his companions should be grateful to those who started the recitation. This is because they are gods. What they do is right, they are the authority, and others can only obey.
But in "The Legend of Sun Wukong", it has completely changed.
Sun Wukong was originally against God. His birth determined that he was not a god. He was transformed from stone and was a living being other than God. He believed that God and all things were equal, while God believed that they were superior to humans and wanted all things to submit to their management.
At the same time, in "The Legend of Wukong", they are portrayed as mean, selfish, and afraid of death. The Jade Emperor's cowardice and incompetence, the Queen Mother's tyranny, Tathagata's self-centeredness, and the gods' self-preservation are fully exposed, making it difficult for people to respect these gods.
In particular, the Queen Mother is portrayed in the book as a neurotic woman suffering from hysteria. Her power is supreme, and all the rules and regulations in heaven are her will. Not only the high gods, but even the Jade Emperor, who is in a completely dominant position in classical works, dare not go against any of her wishes in public.
It can be said that this "The Legend of Sun Wukong" is truly timeless and always new to watch.
This time, Yu Xiaoshu simply uploaded it to "Qichuang Chinese Network" in one go.
Obviously, according to online literature, updates are usually normal, with two chapters of 4,000 words a day, and then when it is about 10,000 words, you will receive a text message confirming the signing.
This is the case with QiChuang Chinese Network.
Generally, the essay competition will take 1 to 2 months, and this essay competition is not just for short stories, so after 2 months, most of the novels will definitely be selected.
However, these selections and the final results are sometimes not the same.
In addition, "The Legend of Sun Wukong" is extremely short.
Yu Xiaoshu didn’t have the time to upload it every day, so he just uploaded all of them at once.
After passing it on, he decided to ignore it for the time being.
After all, the essay contest has just begun, so he can't be too anxious at this time.
As expected, in the next 10 days, the fan war officially began.
The number of fan fictions about "Journey to the West" on "Qichuang Chinese Network" has increased from only a dozen books a day to more than a hundred books a day.
Because everyone has different interpretations of "Journey to the West", everyone wants to write something.
Then, everyone’s levels of writing are different, so the discussions are naturally different.
In just 10 days, "Journey to the West" has become the largest fan fiction genre on QiChuang Chinese website.
This is not only the case with QiChuang Chinese website, but also with several other Chinese websites. At the same time, the copyrights collected by film and television companies regarding the "Journey to the West" fan works are somewhat different.
It is still in the confidentiality stage.
Originally, Yu Xiaoshu was planning to try out online writing first, but he didn't expect that Hongxing Satellite TV would actually produce results.
Yes.
Hong Tianfang couldn't bear it anymore.
Hong Tianfang really needs money right now.
To him, Hongxing Satellite TV is already a negative asset. He has asked other people for their opinions on purchasing it, but it is obvious that other people are not interested in buying it. At the same time, Hong Tianfang only wants cash, and it is impossible for everyone to take out such a large sum of cash quickly.
Cash out quickly and run away with the money.
This is what Hong Tianfang wants to do.
In the whole of China, there is only one company that can meet Hong Tianfang's requirements.
That is Baiqian Media.
Yu Xiaoshu did not let Liu Qianqian come forward. He felt that there was no need to provoke Hong Tianfang. At the same time, Yu Xiaoshu himself did not come forward. He was just anxiously waiting for news.
The acquisition has always been carried out in secret.
A lot of news from outside is false.
Because Yu Xiaoshu didn't want to be screenshoted halfway.
Yu Xiaoshu couldn't calm down sitting in the office until he received a message.
"Teacher Yu, the deal is done."
Only after seeing this message did Yu Xiaoshu feel completely relieved.
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(End of this chapter)
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