What I did at work today:
1. Talked to the big boss, relating to her the conversation I had with my direct boss last night. The conversation is about entrusting a company (hereinafter referred to as "company A") with one of our shows so that they can adapt it for broadcast in other countries. This is the first time that my company has done something like this, and we were looking over the draft of the contract that company A had sent us. Except that my direct boss hadn't really read it. Oops. Anyway, I summarized it to him, and we talked for awhile...and then I relayed it all to the big boss this morning. We all agree that the conditions are very favorable. 30% off the top, minus expenses, followed by an even split leaves us with....not much money.
2. Emailed a company about using footage we shot of the Amagasaki train wreck from last year. Turns out they don't want our footage because they were able to "obtain broader rights elsewhere which pleased our broadcaster". We offered them worldwide rights...maybe they wanted to broadcast on the moon or something...
3. Agreed to participate in an "English lunch" with B, who is a native English speaker. The other participants are not...so I'll be teaching English while eating lunch tomorrow. I'll sit patientially and listen to people struggle to tell me how much they like to play pachinko. It's good to be back teaching (sort of), just as a kind of altruistic, volunteer thing.
Haha, it's totally not. I need to ask B some information (namely, what's the norm in terms of splitting profits for the deal outlined in point 1 of this post), which she officially can't tell me-so I have to do it on the sly. During "English lunch".
4. Sent a draft of a contract to Spain for one of our shows.
5. Ate the "western-style lunch plate"
6. Worked on some royalty reports.
7. Responded to a company who has the right to broadcast one of our shows in Spain-turns out they also want the right to broadcast said show in Portugal-as well as in Angola, Cape Verde, and Mozambique-but only in Portugese. They only have the rights to broadcast in Portugal starting about 1/3 of the way through the series, so...looks like they will be needing to purchase the rights to broadcast in Portugal for the first 1/3, as well as the rights to the whole show for those three countries in Africa. Gimmie the Verde!
8. Off to dinner with people from work...by the time I get home, Shoko will be sound asleep, as she has to get up around 4:30am for work.
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