In Pan Yu's office, Pan Yu, Meng Xiao, and Bai Gao Yuan were all there.
"Based on the results of the internal testing, test users are very satisfied with the Variety Show app." Pan Yu said, "This time our product can be launched twenty days ahead of schedule, thanks to Director Meng!"
"Yes, Director Meng saved our project department a lot of money this time!" Gao Yuan said with a slight smile, "I'm worried about not having enough advertising money!"
Meng Xiaobai didn't care about this. He said: "Mr. Pan, I think we need to increase the number of servers. Otherwise, when the number of users increases, the server will definitely not be able to handle it."
"Well, it depends on the situation!" Pan Yu thought for a while and said: "We are renting cloud servers now, and the cost is not low. We will not increase investment for the time being unless necessary."
"Um."
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The next day, Variety Show app was officially launched on the Android App Store, and the Apple App Store is still under review.
Since its launch, Langya Company has begun to mobilize resources for publicity and promotion.
The company's website has advertising links, gift-giving promotions, and major anchors who have signed contracts promote the Variety Show app in the live broadcast room.
Langya Live Website, a major anchor promotes Variety Show app online.
"Look, everyone, this is the software." The anchor opened his phone and showed it, "Everyone just needs to take a photo. Like me, let the software record your appearance information."
As she said that, she made a photo demonstration, "Next, you can change yourself into the protagonist of the video!"
As she said that, she selected a movie clip in the material library, and sure enough, the face of the heroine in the video suddenly changed to hers.
On the barrage: "Wow, that's awesome! Where can I download it?"
“So beautiful!”
"This thing is interesting. Can I change any video?"
"I suddenly thought of action movies from the island country. If I change my face..."
The anchor continued to introduce: "Everyone only needs to scan the QR code in the lower left corner of the live broadcast room to download. Now you can download and get bonuses!"
The Variety Show app is being promoted on all major channels, and it has triggered a download boom after only one day of being online.
On the first night, there were too many users on the server, making it unavailable for new users. As a result, the technical team had to work overtime late at night to perform maintenance.
By the third day, the Variety Show app had already entered the top ten of the Android app download list for the week, and the Weibo index and browser search index were rising day by day.
"In just three days, the daily activity of our software has already ranked among the top three in its category! Second only to Zai Feng Feng Zai Xi and Ji Cute Camera." Pan Yu announced excitedly at the project department meeting.
Zai is the smart face-changing software they imitated, and Ji Meng Camera is a product of ByteDash. It also uses face recognition technology, but it is simpler than smart face-changing.
"Everyone, keep up the hard work. I can clearly tell you the good news. At present, the company's senior management attaches great importance to our products and is ready to add a second investment of 30 million to our project! Our mission is to continue to improve our products and keep our
of users!”
Not only him, but everyone in the Variety Show project department was excited. They didn't expect success to come so easily! Originally, everyone expected that even if this software was popular, it would take a certain amount of time.
The meeting ended and Pan Yu left Meng Xiaobai behind.
"Xiao Meng, I see why you are not excited at all. Are you under too much pressure at work recently?" Pan Yu asked.
Meng Xiaobai shook his head, looked at Pan Yu, and asked, "Mr. Pan, did you know? Within three days, users uploaded hundreds of thousands of video materials to our video material library."
"This is a good thing! It proves that users are very active!" Pan Yu said.
"Of course it's a good thing to have more material. But we don't have the copyright on these materials!" Meng Xiaobai emphasized, "The video materials uploaded by these users have not been reviewed at all. Eighty percent are video materials from various film and television works.
There is no copyright. Eighteen percent are video content shot by users themselves; the remaining 2% are even more dangerous and are some colored video clips!"
"Well, it is indeed worthy of attention!" Pan Yu said, "Delete all those with color."
"Mr. Pan! This is just one of the problems. The important thing is that we have not obtained the copyright for the entire video library! If the copyright owner pursues it, I'm afraid it will be troublesome." Meng Xiaobai emphasized.
"Haha, so that's what you're worried about!" Pan Yu smiled and said, "Don't worry, have you read the user agreement? These materials are uploaded voluntarily by users and have nothing to do with the platform."
Meng Xiaobai was not satisfied with this explanation. It was just a way of shirking responsibility. The user did upload the video material, but it was used for commercial purposes on the platform, so it was difficult to resolve copyright disputes.
"What about the materials uploaded by users themselves?" Meng Xiaobai said worriedly, "According to the law, the videos they shot cannot be used for commercial purposes without authorization."
"Who told you it was unauthorized?" Pan Yu smiled mysteriously, "Read the user agreement carefully!"
"Huh?" Meng Xiaobai opened the user agreement. In Article 28, he saw an article that stunned him.
“After the user uploads and publishes content, it means agreeing to grant Variety Show and its affiliates as well as Variety Show users “completely free, irrevocable, permanent sublicensable and sublicensable rights worldwide.”
"Including but not limited to the possibility of modifying and editing all or part of the user content (such as replacing the face or voice in the short video with another person's face or voice, etc.) and performing information network on the user content before and after modification.
dissemination and all copyright property rights and neighboring rights enjoyed by the copyright owner as stipulated in the Copyright Law."
"Mr. Pan, how can such an agreement that completely ignores the user's portrait rights and privacy rights be written into the user agreement?" Meng Xiaobai asked in shock.
"Don't be so surprised." Pan Yu patted him on the shoulder and said, "Everyone does this. Mobile phone users in China don't care about their privacy at all. I dare say that few users who download our app will read it.
It goes through the user agreement.”
"But we can't stipulate this!" Meng Xiaobai retorted.
"Xiao Meng!" Pan Yu said earnestly, "Technically, you are indeed a rare talent. But in terms of operations, you are still a bit immature."
"Our software has just been launched, and now we are trying to seize the market! With all these materials and enriched user experience, our user base can grow faster! As for this user agreement, as long as everyone hasn't noticed it, there is no need to take advantage of it.
Even if we notice it, we can just modify it when the time comes."
"But... this won't work!" Meng Xiaobai couldn't accept it, "Mr. Pan, smart technology is good when designed, but if it is used in bad ways, it can also cause harm. If someone uses our software to invade user privacy
, it will be too late by then!"
"What are you worried about? You are in charge of technology, you don't need to worry about these things." Pan Yu said simply, "We are not the first to do this. This user agreement is copied from Zai."
"I still can't accept it." Meng Xiaobai shook his head. He didn't want the software he designed to be stigmatized.
A trace of displeasure flashed in Pan Yu's eyes, but he hid it and asked: "Okay, then tell me, if we don't use these materials, how can we attract users?"