Chapter Five: The Final Right of Interpretation

The next afternoon, Crown Capital's lawyers filled Starbridge's largest conference room. The price was two hundred million. The condition: every final, rejected cut, source file, and “present or future derivative right of interpretation” connected to Obsidian's Super Bowl campaign would belong to Crown forever. Starbridge's chairman reached for the pen. Beneath the table, Tang texted Chen: Are we really letting them buy it? The more completely, the better. Chen sat behind the projector without a nameplate. A server omitted his water three times. The lawyers skipped him when counting attendance. His invisibility had frightened him yesterday. Today it was access.