Chapter 1468

"This is really good news..."

At the end of March, in the mansion of former talk show King Johnny Carson in Burbank, Songya met Doug Morris, President of universal music, accompanied by their mutual friend Daniel.

The three were walking and chatting in the back garden. Doug Morris revealed that he and the new leadership of Vivendi global did not oppose in principle to licensing the huge song copyright Library of universal Polaroid to beats music store.

"Thanks." Daniel was glad that his old friend sold face like this. "Everything is over. We should have cooperated as much as today."

"I can't guarantee... Er, the Bronfman family still owns a large number of shares in the global department after all, and Ron Meyer's attitude is also very important."

If not for allmusic launched by universal and Sony duet alliance in conjunction with all music website and similar competitive products launched by BMG, EMI and Warner in conjunction with RealNetworks, musicnet was too anti-human, there should not have been opportunities for external companies such as apple and beats in the field of online music stores.

On the one hand, the big five or Disney's big six have gradually recognized the nature of their laymen in the Internet field. Based on their commercial interests, they turn to welcome beats, iTunes and other music stores with both hands. The more competitors, the interests of the six copyright providers in the upper reaches of the industry will be protected.

On the other hand, Ron Meyer, CEO of universal entertainment group, is working to improve his control over his subsidiary universal music. He took advantage of the opportunity of internal review of allmusic's fiasco to frantically attack Doug Morris.

Doug Morris has been at a disadvantage in the office struggle within the global department since he was climbed to his head by Ron Meyer, who used to be an equal.

In his late seventies, it's too boring to still feel aggrieved and suffer. Doug Morris has actually started to retreat. He thought he was a successful "Richelieu". He danced cunningly on the steel wire among big men such as little Bronfman, Barry Diller, black Pharaoh and former Vivendi Global CEO messier, and finally saved his position, but he didn't expect to lose to Ron Meyer, who threw his faith to Messier earlier and more decisively

After a brief introduction to the complex situation within the global system, he asked, "how many have you settled?"

Daniel looked at Songya, got the hint and replied: "Disney and Warner have signed, EMI and BMG are also going through the normal licensing process, so there should be no big problem. So now only your Universal Music and Sony Columbia Records are left."

Daniel is bragging to Songya. In fact, the progress is not so fast and optimistic.

"What about pricing?"

"It should be basically consistent with apple."

“OK。”

"Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with Sony Columbia Records, Mr. Morris." Songya inserted the conversation between the two.

"I don't know much about their new president."

The new president of Sony Columbia record is Howard Stringer, an old subordinate of CBS TV network. Doug Morris, a senior manager who has never had experience in the recording industry, told the truth and looked at the black Pharaoh from the corner of his eye.

Are you nearly thirty? The black Pharaoh's face has lost the green smell of his early years, and he is no longer as sharp and vigorous as a rampant bull. His eyes are calm and his behavior is calm. He has the temperament of a tycoon who is difficult for outsiders to see his real thoughts from his micro expression and does not show his happiness and anger.

"MJ owns half of Sony's ATV copyright library. Have you tried to find him?" Doug Morris asked.

"Is it useful to find him?"

Songya naturally will not expose the deal with MJ. "As far as I know, although he owns that half, the track management right is in Sony Music's hands."

For specific businesses such as copyright licensing to external companies, the track management rights owned by the distribution company play a decisive role.

"Yes, when MJ merged ATV and Sony's music copyright library that year, it seems that he has fully entrusted the track management right to Sony. He has the ownership and can participate in major business changes such as sales and acquisition, but has no right to interfere with the specific track management."

Daniel nodded. "MJ himself prefers the light asset allocation that can be handled only through a few lawyers."

"Then I have no good suggestions."

Doug Morris didn't understand this. His question just now was to lead to the following words, "what about you? Aplus, MJ is in trouble and seems to be in a bad financial situation. Are you interested in taking this opportunity to buy ATV from him?"

"I never take advantage of the fire."

Songya couldn't trust Doug Morris completely, shook his head and said he was not interested, "and the copyright library is too big and expensive."

"MJ and Sony seem to have signed an agreement that year. Both sides have the preemptive right to each other. They just need to match the external quotation."

Daniel added.

So we can lead to the next sentence, "or what about the other way around with MJ? Today, Sony's share price plummeted, triggering an earthquake in the Tokyo stock market, and the Nikkei index also fell sharply. According to their financial report for the first quarter of 2003, the sales profit was 100 billion yen less than expected."

"Ha ha."

Although the Xbox appeared frequently after it came out, Microsoft, unable to resist the rich and powerful, would rather hurt people by itself. For every Xbox sold by Microsoft at a loss, users will buy less Sony's PS2 game console. In addition, iPod, beats and other MP3 players have changed the life of the CD player. It is strange that Sony's financial report can be good-looking.

Song Ya pulled up the corners of his mouth and slightly enjoyed the pleasure of revenge. "It's impossible. They have spent countless money for the copyright library for more than a decade, and this small setback is nothing to a large electronic giant. They don't know how many times they have overcome similar situations, have they?"

"Yes, think about how much they burned for Columbia Pictures..." Daniel echoed.

"And you know, my personal relationship with MJ is not very good, almost never contact," Songya said.

"Well, it's hard for everyone."

Doug Morris said: "Vivendi global is also looking for buyers for universal entertainment group and American TV network."

"We heard."

Although the French have avoided the bankruptcy crisis caused by Andersen's false accounts through reporting huge losses for two consecutive years, they are still in difficulties at home and abroad. Their rating has been lowered, their market value has shrunk, and their working capital has dried up. The lowest point of the stock price appeared in September last year, that is, the day after Messier resigned, 13 yuan nodded, which is equivalent to more than 80 billion yuan evaporated compared with the peak.

Because the financial institutions of the two countries were all killed in the pit, the American government, the French government and investors were furious. At present, the two places are still investigating Messier and other "culprits".

After Messier sold sigram wine, his successor futu continued to sell off his assets and survive. Last October, they sold Vivendi global publishing group to their French counterpart Lagardere for rescue. Unfortunately, this transaction touched the monopoly line of France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Spain and other countries. Lagardere later had to transfer 60% of Vivendi global publishing group's shares to an Italian company, retaining only 40% of its elite assets.

Last November, Vivendi global sold 20% of its water giant Veolia.

In February this year, they sold their French newspaper group.

A series of sales finally relieved Vivendi Global's liquidity pressure, but this is not enough. They must put the big one again. This time, it is global entertainment and American TV network that are finally put on the shelf, which means that the French will withdraw from the American media industry.

Doug Morris must have a plan to copy the old road of sigram wine industry. He hopes that heifa will also win universal music, change his court and no longer be angry with Ron Meyer.

But this is impossible. The west wine industry is a high quality asset. It is also the rescue of Uncle Bronfman and cousin. Global entertainment, especially global music, is not in a good state of operation. It contains a large number of shares held by individual Bronfman. Legend has it that the bubble of the TV network is also great. He and Sloan thought that the French would rather sell game companies that are making money than keep their hard won media influence in the United States.

On the contrary, song Ya is quietly spreading public opinion, trying to influence the purchase desire of other potential buyers and spoil the business. "Is there a big company interested?" just to spy on intelligence.

"It's hard to say for the time being. As long as the price is appropriate... I think there will be some."

Doug Morris is still wary of this before the last moment of throwing his heart away.

"He is much older these days..."

Seeing off Doug Morris with silver hair, Songya sighed.

"It's hard for him. Universal music has actually been on the right track under his management."

Although there is no gambling craze among young people, but with the gradual absorption of the huge bubble of gold, coupled with the emergence of super new people like Eminem, Daniel believes that although global music is still losing money, the status quo is not so bad. "If Apple and your music store can help them recover part of the profits from online pirated music, it may not be far from turning losses into profits."

"Well, let's go."

The two returned to Johnny Carson's mansion, where a documentary crew was filming the old man's documentary to prepare for the upcoming autobiography.

Johnny Carson is in poor health, but he is in good spirits today. The old man is sitting on the sofa. His young wife is sitting on the armrest on the left. On the right is the autobiographical writer in charge of writing. Jenny, the temporary guest interview host, sits opposite the three. She is also one of the producers of this special documentary planned by Littman press and produced by ACN.

She looked outside the door and didn't bother. Songya didn't want to be photographed by the camera. She and Daniel looked for a place to stay again and waited for Jenny to leave work.

"MJ will launch a counterattack in the near future, and the location is likely to be in the UK."

David Geffen called Harvey to Jack Warner manor in Beverly Hills. "He's already there."

He has a poor relationship with Songya and the upper class of the British drama circle, but he has no deep hatred with the tabloids and paparazzi. On the contrary, MJ has a very good relationship with the upper class of the British music circle, and looks at each other like enemies with the tabloids and paparazzi.

They are also loved by British fans.

As an English speaking country, the news of the counterattack in Britain can be transmitted back to the United States for the first time.

Harvey naturally knows this, "fight back? Or something else?"

"Sony Columbia Records, they just announced that they will release MJ's Album Number ones in November, which is also part of our deal with Howard Stringer," David Geffen replied.

November is the key time point in their plan. At that time, the Neverland district attorney Tom snyden will officially send MJ to court again, and Sony Columbia Records will take the opportunity to release MJ's selected albums to make another profit while they are hot. Black and red are also red. The fact that R Kelly's records are selling well proves this point.

"So MJ is still clinging to the contradictions with Sony about the album release?"

Harvey smiled. "Then he shouldn't have encouraged his fans to drive Rick Rubin away. Now who can he blame? It's too hard for the new president who just arrived to carry the pot."

"Poor Rick is still recuperating in Switzerland and licking his wounds," said David Geffen.

"He asked for it. His willpower is too weak."

Harvey Tucao: "we make complaints about his beautiful beard."

"Young, your career has been going well."

They had no doubt about Rick Rubin, who had already turned against Songya.

"Oh, yes, the younger one, aplus." Harvey took the opportunity to say: "I've been running for his online music store business in Los Angeles recently. I heard that Disney and Warner have been settled and are publicizing EMI records. Is it possible for him to join hands with MJ for Sony's ATV copyright library? Otherwise, Sony is unlikely to give in and the book hates him too much. First, he rebelled at Sony Columbia Records, and then went to cooperate with SEGA and Microsoft to build game consoles. Now In the business of Walkman and online music store... "

"What's the matter with you?"

After a short time, Harvey brought up the old story again, and David Gefen was a little wary. "Didn't I say last time? Let him go for the time being. Why do we care if we like or hate him?"

"I mean, if he passes this pass, he will have the right to distribute online music and the media industry will be spread all over. This is a media group that is not controlled by us."

Harvey explained: "and apple, I'm tired of him."

David Geffen looked at him suspiciously, "second rate media group, and Skinner of ACN is still our own people."

"Well, well, you're the boss anyway." Harvey had to shut up.

The next day, Songya was escorted out of the gate of the headquarters of Parliamentary records, one of the two princes of EMI in beimi.

Today's talk went well. Before that, he had already settled another big Duke, Viking beimi. He waved to the reporter in the distance in high spirits, then shook hands with the senior Congressional Record officials who saw him off and got into the car.

"Go to Mila." after the award season, she and the forest began to be busy with their own affairs. Only Mila, who is lazy, hasn't taken over her work.

Hardly had the silencer driven the car onto the road when Haley's phone rang in.

"Sony fell sharply again today! Its market value fell by 25% in two days!"

"Sony shock!"

The book began to give a shocking name to the stock disaster level in the past two days. Sony, which lost 400 billion yen in market value in the past two days, brought down the Tokyo stock market and the Nikkei index.

"Hey, hey..."

Song Yale, it's better, isn't it? With Yahoo driving the return of American Internet, it's time for international hot money to return.

The weaker Sony, the better it is for itself, and Songya has more energy.

"Here I am." old Mike sent back a text message from New York in secret language.

During this time, he lived in Los Angeles, and old Mike just took time to deal with the FBI trio... Now it's a two person group. Steve Heins, the boss of the two person group, was transferred back to the public relations department by the FBI not long ago, but instead of letting him continue to be the host of the law popularization program, he sent him a casual job.

According to intelligence, the FBI's internal discipline Department has mastered the evidence of his corruption. The first transfer out of the law enforcement department is to complete the final evidence collection, and then arrest him.

The FBI should start in these days. According to the Franklin report that has been watching in New York, old Mike judges that Haines himself is aware of it. During this period, he began to run frequently and contact the old relationship to protect himself.

This is also a very good opportunity to find out the relationship between Heins and the upper echelons.

"OK." Song Ya answered a text message saying he knew.

At the beginning of April, the decline of Sony's share price slowed down, but the senior management must have said something. Howard Stringer, who is in charge of Sony's beimi branch, received a notice and is preparing to leave for a meeting in Tokyo. He was hinted by the chairman and CEO of the head office, Nobuyuki Inoue, that he would let himself, rather than the voice higher. Everyone takes it for granted that the father of PS, Yoshiki Kudo, will take over as the president CEO of the company.

Takeshi Inoue must be responsible for the slump. He can only step down as CEO, but he doesn't want to see his compatriots who pose a greater threat to himself rise for a long time. A foreign CEO from the United States is more convenient for him to retreat, continue to hold the position of chairman and firmly control Sony.

Howard Stringer figured out clearly that the unexpected "Sony shock" was a great opportunity for him to make great strides in his personal career, and he would not let it go.

"Let's go." he went out and called Hirai, President of Sony electronics beimi, who was still in the dark.

Hirai can barely be regarded as the faction of Kudo liangmujian, but because it lives in beimi, the relationship between the two sides is not deep.

This man has a strong working ability. Howard Stringer plans to reuse him after he is in the top position. Of course, he should also control him. Of course, Liang Mujian wants to find a chance to drive him away.

"Boss, Mr. Heins called again to make an appointment. He said it was very urgent."

The party carrying the briefcase was just about to leave when the secretary came out to report.

"Say I went to Tokyo."

Howard Stringer also has some information. He knows that the guy is coming to a dead end. He is already an unstable factor. As he travels, he makes calculations in his mind. The more he thinks about it, the more he is worried.

He took out his mobile phone and looked for Giuliani's number, but hesitated before dialing it out. Giuliani didn't get a job in the Georgian government after leaving office. He has been idle and engaged in business through the revolving door. The selfless former mayor of New York has no friends and now earns about $1 million a year?

Severely crack down on Mafia, African American and Latino crimes, and reverse the public security situation in New York in one fell swoop. The "American mayor" who performed perfectly in the September 11 incident suddenly fell behind.

"I went home first and forgot to take my things."

Giuliani may have been confused. He made excuses, and then found a telephone booth on the way home to call another person.

After his plane took off, Franklin drove and followed Heins all the way to a park in New York with old Mike.

"Don't expose yourself." old Mike chose to watch from a distance.

Heins should have an appointment. He was in a hurry. His destination was very clear. He bought a ticket and boarded a Ferris wheel in the park.

Sure enough, in the pod he went up, there was already a thin white man in a suit.

Old Mike took out his telephoto camera and took it from a distance, but he didn't take a satisfactory picture until the ferris wheel began to get off the passenger. The white man was very careful. His face was just covered by the metal frame of the pod and spoke to Heins who was talking excitedly.

We need to find an angle to see our faces clearly. Old Mike and Franklin have just set off for a circuitous approach, but they didn't expect a shrill scream from there.

“SHXT！”

Old Mike quickly pushed Franklin, "go and see his face!" he set up the camera again. The pod that stopped was surrounded by several tourists. It was Heins who sat motionless!

"Here you are!" he saw in the camera the thin white man who hurried out of the crowd, but still couldn't see his face clearly. The thin white man put up his suit collar and shrunk his head, so he had to throw the camera at Franklin again.

Because of the winding paths in the park, the two people who were afraid of being watched were not far from the ferris wheel, but their feet were not short. Franklin caught the camera and ran to the ferris wheel.

“M-FXXK！”

When Franklin ran, the thin white man had disappeared, and Heins died in the pod

"Now there's only one living person in the trio." after Songya got the personal report from old Mike who rushed back to Los Angeles, she frowned and looked at Heins, who was lying on his back in the pod seat and shot in his forehead, chest and lower abdomen, deeply frowned.

Howard Stringer over there has also arrived in Tokyo. After getting off the plane, he received an empty text message. He was in a relaxed mood and smiled and stuffed his mobile phone back into his pocket.

"What's the matter?"

He found that there was something wrong with the eyes of his colleagues who came to pick up the plane. Most of them looked like they wanted to talk and stop.

"Mr. stringer..."

‘SONYISPHONEY！’

On London's iconic double deck sightseeing bus, MJ personally displayed a red cardboard that Sony was a liar, and fans on the street shouted slogans crazy after him.

"Let me talk about the fate of outstanding artists, from Sammy Davis to James Brown and Jackie Wilson..."

MJ listed a lot of names of his predecessors at the subsequent fan meeting, and changed a cardboard "Sony killed music" in his hand. He said: "these outstanding artists are diligent, but their end is the same. They go bankrupt because the record companies are really using them... Sony."

The mountain below the stage shouted the color of the tsunami.

"As Sony's contracted artists, I brought them billions of dollars in profits. It's no exaggeration. They thought that artists like me would focus on music, singing, dancing and holding concerts, but they never thought I would look at them in turn..."

"Billions of dollars? This egotism!" Howard Sbringe make complaints about watching TV while he is watching TV. "Who will believe him but his mentally ill fans?"

The book colleagues nodded and laughed with ugly faces one by one.

MJ then complained about a lot of dissatisfaction with the selected albums of numberones and the announcement of the last Wanfu Mo Di album, and then said, "I own half of the assets of Sony Music Publishing Company, so they are very angry at my attempt to leave..."

"Music copyright library and company value are indistinguishable..." Howard Stringer was very impatient.

Damn it, when he was about to leave the United States and the CEO of the head office rebelled, this guy really died! He maintained a relaxed expression in front of his colleagues, but his heart was itching with hate.

"This man..."

MJ took out another piece of cardboard with his own photo on it. He also pasted the red horns of two demons, holding the devil's fork, and the following line of capital letters: 'go back to your hell! Skinner! "

"Howard Stringer, he is a devil. He tries to control me and is full of lies..." MJ said.

Howard Stringer suddenly felt dizzy and almost fainted on the spot.

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