book rights
Author's licensing deal
Book rights are the legal permissions to use, adapt, or publish a book's content.
Authors typically retain these rights or sell them to publishers.
Rights can be divided in various ways: by territory (North American rights), by format (audiobook rights), or by medium (film rights).
When someone acquires the book rights, they're buying permission to adapt or reproduce the work in specified ways.
- license agreementContract governing permitted use
- publishing contractAuthor-publisher rights agreement
- literary agentAuthor's publishing intermediary
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- sublicensingGranting derived authorization rights
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Unprotected creative works
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