The adaptation of classic songs is always high-yield and high-risk.
Editor’s note: This article is from WeChat public account “Hedgehog commune” (ID: ciweigongshe ), author context, Editing Shi Can, is authorized to publish.
This year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, some people have a family reunion, and some people stay up all night.
I can’t sleep, it is the composer Xu Jingqing of Journey to the West, where is the way to dare to ask where the road is. The reason is that he found his work to be “ruined”.
At this year’s CCTV Mid-Autumn Festival party, singer Tan Weiwei sang a rock version of “Dare to ask where the road is.”
Once the party was aired, many viewers shouted “destroy the classics” and made Xu Jingqing sleepless all night.
In the afternoon of the next day, Xu Jingqing issued a microblog, publicly expressing his strong dissatisfaction with the unauthorised and unrecognized songs. He was harshly worded and said that he was “unacceptable and very disliked.”
Image source: Sina Weibo@新浪娱乐
There was a live audience shooting the night’s performance, which was much better than the version played on the TV.
However, on September 15th, Tan Weiwei apologized to the singing of “Dare to ask where the road is.” He said that he was honored to sing the work of Teacher Xu Jingqing and said that “I hope that the next time I have the opportunity to perform and to participate in the adaptation.” Take good care of it, refine it, and respect the wishes of you and the original author to ensure the perfection of interpretation.” 
Through Tan Weiwei Sina Weibo
Tan Weiwei’s “apology letter” is a very decent and sincere statement, but the careful netizen found that she did not respond to a question raised by Xu Jingqing’s Weibo, which is about “copyright”.
Review the appeal of Xu Jingqing, which contains two layers of meaning.Thinking:
The first is that the arrangement is not respectful of copyright without the consent of the original author;
Second, the adaptation distorted the original intention of the work, he personally did not accept, did not like.
These two meanings actually involve two different problems, because the nature of the problem itself is quite different.
First of all, let’s discuss, does Tan Weiwei really disrespect copyright?
Is this adaptation infringement?
After Xu Jingqing’s microblogging, “Xi Wei Ji’s ending songwriter approved the adaptation of Tan Weiwei” boarded the microblogging hot search topic list, but this hot search is undoubtedly “coincident.”
Xu Jingqing criticized the adaptation of the work in Weibo, but did not point the finger at the singer Tan Weiwei.
In addition, the adaptation of the repertoire at the Mid-Autumn Festival party was not completed by Tan Weiwei. If it is necessary to trace the roots, the responsibility of the arranger Guo Junjiang is obviously greater.
However, Tan Weiwei is also a star familiar to the audience and a performer standing in front of the stage. This identity has inevitably pushed her to the forefront.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival video
Tan Weiwei is relatively innocent, because the works that are adapted and adapted in TV stations and variety shows are usually clarified by the platform. The copyright relationship can be.
The music copyright of a song is usually divided into two types:
The copyright of songs and the rights of producers of sound recordings are the two levels of the platform that need to be “opened up”.
In a nutshell, the copyright of a song refers to who owns the song of a song.
The person who manages the copyright of a lyric music can be either the creator himself or the copyright company authorized by the creator, which is what we usually call OP (Original Publisher).
The right of the producer of the recording refers to who owns the song that the “song of the song” is.
The management of the rights of a song recording producer is usually a record company, responsible for paying for songs, publishing, and distribution, which is what we usually call SP (Sub Publisher).
As long as you open the two copyrights to the SP and OP, you can perform the work of others.
As a result, if Xu Jingqing has an authorized copyright company, as long as CCTV purchases copyright from the copyright company, it does not need to obtain his own opinion;
But if Xu Jingqing himself