Reborn to create a virtual world

What will be the most valuable commodity in the future?

In Lin Shu's view, copyright and patents are taken for granted.

The more advanced technology is in the era of rich life, the more valuable the products of wisdom are. This is an undeniable truth from ancient times to the present.It's just that since the Industrial Revolution, the definition of wisdom has been expanded again, so literature, art, and technology have all been included, people's spiritual life has become richer, and their spiritual needs have become stronger.

Whoever controls the smart trading rights can control the direction of the whole world.

Lin Shu's target virtual trading platform does not trade homemade software, models or other things, but intellectual products such as various copyright patents, such as various design drawings, such as novels or painting copyrights, or although it is not yet possible to design ...But in fact, it is a technology patent that Lin Shu has long targeted.

The last item is the most difficult one to deal with. Lin Shu is not in a hurry right now, and just hopes to do the first ones well first.

Because there are more and more patented works on the shelves, Lin Shu hopes that the basic rules and benefits of the platform will be done first.In the following period of time, Zheng Fangcheng spent time poaching and signing a group of patent and copyright lawyers, including Li Zewei, who had a good cooperation with Xingze at that time and became more and more famous recently.

Li Zewei was quite positive about this contract. Although he only consulted with a lawyer, after the concrete prototype of the future platform, he knew that he would actually have a lot to do in Xingzhe, so he agreed.

In addition to him, Xingze also signed several other lawyers with some famous achievements in related fields, as well as legal assistants and a group of subordinate staff.Xingze originally had plagiarism judgment software specially used to check the similarity of copywriting plots and codes, but after an update, the software was upgraded again, adding drawing comparison functions and clothing comparison functions.

But that alone is not enough.

Shortly after the establishment of the patent team, Xingze issued a notice to hire some highly active website users—mainly enthusiasts or professionals with in-depth and extensive knowledge of related industries—to become full-time examiners, responsible for A human review followed by a machine review, as well as reviews and recommendations.

Sure enough, a lot of people were recruited. Zheng Fangcheng carefully selected among them, and selected a few applicants with high basic professional ethics and decent professional standards.

This situation inevitably made Lin Shu feel a little bit surprised.

Thinking about when the company was first established, he basically had to use technicians and copywriters to double as auditors, one for two purposes.Over the past few years, Xingzhe has been able to directly hire professionals to take on the review and recommendation work.

It has to be said that it is a leap forward.

Considering that Xingzhe cannot fully virtualize all kinds of commodities at present, reasonable classification is very important for the website.The more accurate and clear the product classification, the more buyers can find the content they need, and the more effective it can be to facilitate successful transactions.

Because of this consideration, Lin Shu has been urging the future platform to improve and refine the index to achieve better query and browsing effects.

Of course, at the same time, the registration and protection of patents is also a piece that must be taken seriously.A group of assistants and clerks specially equipped by Lin Shu for the legal team exist for such a purpose.Xingzhe has internally reviewed a large number of products uploaded every day, and after confirming its originality, it regularly records patents or copyrights with the Copyright Office.There is no user fee, and the final fee is included in the [-]% commission when the transaction is successful.

Of course, in order to prevent some short-sighted people from falsifying the transaction price in order to reduce the commission, Xingzhe still has a backup.They will display some worth information in each author's column, such as the number of successful transactions of a specific type of copyright, the highest transaction price, the lowest transaction price, the average transaction price, etc... Not only that, Xingzhe also specially included in the new A series of trading lists have been added to the section, and relevant data has been arranged.

This is equivalent to disclosing all transaction information, which has never happened before.Of course, it is not to say that no one has actually announced the price of patents or copyrights, but generally speaking, only a small part of them will do so, and often the main purpose is hype, and it may not even be possible to tell whether the published figures are the real prices.

However, because the future platform is just in its infancy in this regard, it has no influence yet, and it is trying to publish the price data of its own website, which did not arouse any response for a while.

In fact, price disclosure is a good thing for most practitioners, but generally large enterprises and merchants would be very disgusted with this kind of thing, so they will add a confidentiality treaty to the contract, requiring the copyright transferor to confirm the relevant price. confidential.

Because only in the case of information asymmetry, the party with more information rights can obtain more benefits.The confidentiality clause itself is a clause that favors large institutions and is very unfavorable to individual-scale contracting parties.

But many people don't realize the impact of this approach on future platforms.Because no matter from which angle you look at it, Xingze's actions are natural and in line with his own interests.

Only those who know Lin Shu's style and ability will realize how much influence and threat such a platform has on the traditional copyright patent trading market.

It's a pity that there are not many such people, and not everyone has the willingness or ability to interfere and oppose Xingzhe's operating methods.

The future platform adopts a two-way bidding hidden bidding model, which means that the copyright owner will mark a bidding price for himself under the product, and a one-time price, but it will not be made public.Buyers who have taken a fancy to the corresponding copyright can make an offer for the product.Because of the difference in the standard contract, the copyright of the transaction has various forms, including the number of years, the scope of rights, and additional obligations...all are different.The two parties can even set their own terms on the details.

However, during this process, the future platform only allows different price settings for basic terms.After the contract is confirmed, the website will automatically reject other quotations, but both parties have a three-day withdrawal period. If this time is exceeded, the transaction will be considered successful. In the future, the platform will automatically transfer the guarantee money and enter the relevant transaction information at the same time.

After the appearance of this rule, the outside may not feel it, but many users inside the website can already feel Xingzhe's seriousness and dedication in this regard.

Afterwards, Bai Miao contacted Jinjiang Original Literature City again, this time discussing the copyright of the novel.Bai Miao wants the right to trade the copyright of all novels in Jinjiang that have not been traded after the end of the past.Not only the recent ones, but also all works that still have copyright and can contact the author in the past 20 years since the establishment of the site.

In fact, Mr. Liu attaches great importance to the copyright of works, but Bai Miao himself has been in Jinjiang for a long time, so he naturally knows what the operation style of this website is all about.

For Jinjiang, copyright income is indeed a very important income item, but if you really want to say how much copyright promotion has been actively carried out in this area-it is not.

Jin Jiang is like a shy little girl. All her buying and selling means is to carry a basket of roses and stand quietly on the side of the road with a nervous face, waiting for passers-by to come to make inquiries.

This approach must be a bit problematic, and the management itself knows it.But Mr. Liu obviously has a misunderstanding, thinking that a rose that rots in a basket is still his own rose, and a fruit that rots in a basket is still his own fruit.

Bai Miao has a very different idea about this.

She said: "According to Jinjiang's current human and operational capabilities, you don't have enough manpower and financial resources to organize enough manpower to review and select the entire novel library. It is entirely up to the buyer to dig out good works. But Jinjiang's The library of works is very huge, and there will be almost no exposure after it is finished, and it can only be driven by the author's new book."

"Whether it's a rose or a fruit, if it really rots in the basket, that is, it turns into mud and fungal growth, the value will be greatly reduced. This is similar to stock trading. When someone's company goes bankrupt, the value of your stock will be greatly reduced. It’s just a pile of waste paper. In this case, Mr. Liu, why don’t you try to use them before they rot? You don’t have to do anything, and you can get half of the agency fee. As for yourself, you don’t take any more We can talk to the authors ourselves about the agency fee contract authors, solicit their wishes, and we will directly collect the commission from them... This is actually a win-win strategy.”

Bai Miao finally convinced Mr. Liu, and obtained the data of Jinjiang's finished works database and the contact information of some authors.In the following time, Xingze spent a lot of manpower and material resources to classify and review these works.

The first step is naturally a software comparison.Such a comparison quickly eliminated a large number of works suspected of reference and plagiarism.

This is the work of Jin Jiang, who has always been merciless to plagiarism.Online novels are the hardest-hit areas for plagiarism, and it is hard for Bai Miao to imagine what it would be like for other websites that turn a blind eye to related behaviors.

But software comparisons are not enough.Bai Miao led a group of employees to group and classify themes. Among them, those with perfect structure, outstanding creativity, and excellent writing... After each grouping, they were subdivided and entered again according to the type of theme.

In the end, it is possible to distinguish which works are suitable for adaptation into certain genres, and which ones are suitable for which reading group.Maybe not all of the subdivided works can reach the publication level, but at least after excluding more than 90.00% of the works, the rest of them are regarded as high-quality works.

Just like what Bai Miao said to Mr. Liu: "I believe that there are far more than one or two works in Jinjiang that are not popular but suitable for film and television adaptation like "Growing Up."

She obviously hit the nail on the head.