Collision

"What is it?" Davis set aside what he was doing and asked.

Over the past week or so, Davis and screenwriter Brandon had often gotten together with Qin Ze to discuss the feasibility of Super Hero Party, and they had forged quite a friendship.

Qin Ze could call Davis by his given name instead of his surname, while Brandon openly adopted the attitude of a humble student seeking guidance from him.

"Did you buy the copyright for that piano piece just now?" Qin Ze asked.

"Copyright?" Davis looked blank for a moment. "If it requires a licensing fee, then of course we bought it."

As the director overseeing the production crew, he could not possibly handle every matter personally. He had never even heard the piece from earlier, since he had never cared much for piano music. That was the music supervisor's job.

When filming movies in the past, if there was a scene involving piano music, the crew would generally choose classic piano pieces. What counted as a classic? The kind that had endured for centuries. Such piano pieces had no copyright restrictions.

Why were domestic productions so fond of filming the Four Great Classical Novels over and over again? Because they did not have to pay exorbitant copyright fees, and the stories were famous, suitable for all ages, and came with built-in hit potential.

Only after the Four Great Classical Novels had been altered again and again, the screenwriters had exhausted their imagination, and audiences had grown tired of them did the craze for remaking them gradually fade.

"No, you didn't buy it. This piece came from China, right? The composer wasn't someone in the industry, had never won any awards, and had never been active in the piano world. Chinese people aren't particularly keen on piano music