Global Monopoly of Technology

These two things have become the variables of Bluestar Technology's acquisition of Marvel Comics.

The copyright statement is that Jack Kirby's family issued 45 notices of copyright termination through the media on the same day, and handed them over to Marvel Entertainment, Blue Star Technology, Disney, Paramount, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Films, as well as other companies that have used these comic characters.

Bluestar Technology also got a share because it bought the creditor's rights of Marvel Comics from Merrill Lynch.

"It's a lot of work!"

Living in the hotel, Zhang Bowen smiled wryly and shook his head while watching the content of the "New York Times". The original sin of all this must be blamed on Marvel Comics. Earlier, they sold the copyrights of IP characters to the outside world. It's unrealistic. You can't live without selling these IPs. This is also a forced choice.

The statement notice indicates that they plan to take back the copyrights of some of Kirby's characters as early as 2014.

Jack Kirby is a famous cartoonist in North America. His "X-Men", "Fantastic Four", "Thor" and "Hulk" can be called the treasures of Marvel Comics.

The day before yesterday, the news of Blue Star Technology's intention to acquire Marvel Comics was exposed, and before that, Sony Columbia owned the copyright of "Spider-Man", Fox owned the copyright of "Fantastic Four" and "X-Men", Paramount And Universal owns the distribution rights for some of the films.

It is not easy to sort out the relationship here, but the merger between Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics, whether successful or not, will result before the release of "Iron Man".

This merger has also attracted much attention in the industry and Hollywood. After all, Bluestar Technology has invested a lot in the film and entertainment industry. Last month, it signed a digital film copyright rental contract with major film companies, with a total amount of more than $5.2 billion astronomical price.

This time Blue Star Technology launched the merger of Marvel Comics, and Hollywood is actually very vigilant. Disney suddenly jumped out and inserted a bar is the best example.

But what's interesting is that Marvel Comics is very angry about this, and it stands to reason that someone jumped out to raise the price of Marvel should be happy.

If this is the case, of course, the surprise side will be highly paid, but the crux of the problem is that Disney Pictures has no sincerity to really want to buy Marvel comics, but just wants to obstruct the Blue Star Technology Group.

The six major Hollywood movie giants are notorious for grouping together. The interests here are divided among several families, and they are extremely resistant to outsiders entering this field to get a share of the pie.

You must know that Sony paid a lot of tuition fees when it entered Hollywood. It lost a lot of money to gain a firm foothold in Hollywood, and was finally recognized by several traditional Hollywood movie giants.

Now, the same goes for Sony Columbia Pictures.

But this is extremely angry for Marvel Comics. You don't want to buy it and you don't want others to buy it. Isn't this forcing Marvel Comics to go to a cliff...

How can there be so much affection in the game of the market?

Only the Franklin on the US dollar bill is a sincere love, and there is no false element in it.

The sudden outbreak of the copyright battle,

The key point is the comic series created by Jack Kirby, and the dispute is whether he sold it to Marvel as an independent author or a work done as an employee of Marvel.

Kirby, who has been dead for more than a decade, created a number of classic comics characters during his time at Marvel with another of the company's mainstays, Stan Lee.

After Kirby's family jumped out, all kinds of monsters followed.

For example, a Los Angeles law firm also jumped out and issued a statement, saying that they had fought a similar lawsuit earlier this year to help the heirs of "Superman" creator Jerome Siegel regain some of the copyright.

Obviously, this law firm wants to entrust Kirby's family with the lawsuit, and let them take this list and fight with Blue Star Technology Group or Marvel Comics.

Another interesting thing here is that Stan Lee has been in and out of various occasions as the spokesperson of Marvel Comics for a long time, but many people don't even know Kirby's name.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Jack Kirby switched to Marvel's sworn enemy DC in the 1970s.

Under North American copyright law, the author or heir may restart the copyright process after a period of initial authorization.

In other words, by 2017, Kirby's children will be able to claim that they own the rights to Fantastic Four, while the copyrights of "Hulk" and "X-Men" will expire in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

Marvel is in a hurry, very anxious, and angry, scolding Walt Disney for killing people, you are not my father, and you are not allowed to recognize others as godfather, you want me to die, right?

What I have to say is that at this time, Disney did not intend to acquire Marvel comics at all. Luo Sheng’s last life Disney acquired Marvel because of the unprecedented success of “Iron Man”, and finally saw the potential huge commercial value. The $4.2 billion acquisition of Marvel Studios, or Marvel Comics.

But right now, the North American comics giant isn't worth the price at all.

Only the day after the incident, the third day of Zhang Bowen's interview with Avi Allard, a spokesperson for Marvel declined to comment on the incident.

Zhang Bowen and Bluestar Technology Group did not sit idle and do nothing. At a temporary media conference, Lao Zhang personally attended and declared that the copyright dispute was in the merger between Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics. has been fully considered.

As time goes by, the risk is getting bigger and bigger, and Marvel Comics is really anxious this time, afraid that the thigh that passed by in front of you this time will not hug and slip away.

So, on April 17, Avi Arad finally settled the board and flew to China on the same day.

Because a week ago, Zhang Bowen had returned to China and did not stay in the United States for too long.

This is actually a strategy. Bluestar Technology really wants to merge Marvel Comics into its subordinates, but it shows a dispensable interest to the outside world, which makes Marvel Comics eager to "find a godfather" to recognize each other. The company is anxious to recognize each other.

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Just the day after Zhang Bowen returned to China, Bluestar Technology Group officially disclosed its audited financial report for the first quarter of 2008.

As of the first quarterly report on March 31, 2008, the total global revenue of Bluestar Technology Group was US$44.8 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 394% and a month-on-month decrease of 317%, with a net loss of US$177.5 billion.

Last year, 2007 was undoubtedly the brightest moment since the establishment of Bluestar Technology Group. The annual revenue was as high as 2,815.2 billion US dollars, which was converted into RMB 190 billion regardless of exchange rate changes, making it a well-deserved number one domestic private enterprise.

Compared with Huawei's annual sales of 16 billion US dollars in 2007 last year, although this is also an astronomical figure, Bluestar Technology has obviously taken a big lead.

However, after entering 2008, the performance has finally slumped by a large margin. This is unavoidable. The entire world economy is in a period of cold winter. For Bluestar Technology Group, which relies heavily on advertising profits and overseas revenue, the performance fluctuates greatly. as expected.

The economic crisis has come, and major companies have cut their budgets one after another, constantly increasing revenue and reducing expenditure, and advertising expenses must be cut as much as possible.

Survival is the most important thing.

Let’s put it this way. As a world-class multinational technology group, Bluestar Technology Group’s overseas revenue accounts for more than 80%, so it is naturally subject to large fluctuations.

Losses are also inevitable, because at the same time as the revenue has been greatly reduced, Luo Sheng did not increase the company's income and reduce expenditure, and reduce the operating expenditure budget, so the net profit loss is not unexpected.

Not only that, but he still buys and buys in a hurry during the cold winter, investing billions of dollars without blinking an eye.

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