A few days ago, a contract dispute broke out between Deng Ziqi and her agency Hummingbird Music.

The trigger of this dispute was that Hummingbird Music hosted 8 concerts for Deng Ziqi.

She felt that the company had always treated her as a cash cow and assigned her a lot of jobs that she did not agree with without her permission - uncontrollable work quantity and uncontrollable development direction, which made her Deng Ziqi made up her mind to terminate the contract. She unilaterally stated that she would have nothing to do with Hummingbird at the end of March!

However, Deng Ziqi has made up his mind to leave and does not hesitate to "breach the contract".

At present, they are just making noises in the media and have not yet reached the stage of confronting each other.

Zhou Daojun has consulted legal counsel. Once this matter goes to court, Deng Ziqi will definitely be able to successfully terminate the contract, but Hummingbird Music also has the right to recover the royalties - in short, Deng Ziqi wants to leave without any money. It's absolutely impossible. This negotiation process was quite long, during which Deng Ziqi was unable to sign contracts with other music institutions, let alone publish creative works.

Therefore, the most anxious person now is Deng Ziqi, but she cannot reveal more to the media, because if she offends Hummingbird Music, Deng Ziqi may be hidden.

At this juncture, some netizens discovered that it was not the worst thing for Deng Ziqi to pay money to terminate the contract. The worst thing was that she could not even keep her own name.

The reason why I say this is because netizens discovered that Hummingbird Music registered "Deng Ziqi" as its trademark as early as September 5, 2014, and announced the registration on October 21, 2015. All about music The works are protected by registration, with an expiration date of October 2025.

In fact, Deng Ziqi can still use his own name after the contract is terminated. Unless the contract stipulates that he cannot use this name after the contract is terminated, Hummingbird Music has no right to influence what Deng Ziqi is called.

Hummingbird Music also responded that the company’s original intention of registering Deng Ziqi’s name was mainly to prevent piracy.

However, there are some names that artists cannot use after the contract is terminated, such as S.H.E.

This 20-year-old girl group has currently expired its contract with Huayan Records, but the contract renewal issue has been dragging on for five months because they all want to take the initiative in the contract. Once the contract cannot be completed, Tian Fuzhen, Chen Jiahua and Ren Jiaxuan will not be able to use the group name S.H.E.

Let’s look at Li Yuchun again.

During her time at Tianyu, she held a WHY ME concert every year. However, after Li Yuchun left Tianyu, she will not be able to use WHY ME because Tianyu has registered it.

Name is secondary to Deng Ziqi. Her biggest worry now is that once the contract is terminated, she will no longer be able to sing the music works she published during her time with Hummingbird Music. Because the singer signs a contract with the record company, the recording copyright and audiovisual copyright of all records will belong to the original company.

In other words, Deng Ziqi can no longer sing on the early albums published by Hummingbird Music, including the popular "Bubble".

Singer Li Jian once encountered this kind of problem. After he terminated his contract with the company, he could no longer sing the songs he composed during his youthful years. Zhang Liangying spent more than half a year negotiating to terminate her contract last year, and she still can’t sing it until now. Didn't quite get it.

Deng Ziqi’s first priority at this stage is to fight for the copyright, and like Jay Chou, find ways to buy it back from the company. Because holding copyright means holding wealth.