commercial exploitation
Making money off
Commercial exploitation is the use of something—a patent, creative work, natural resource, or person's image—to generate profit.
The term often carries negative connotations, suggesting that making money has overridden other values: The commercial exploitation of the rainforest continues despite protests.
In intellectual property law, it's more neutral, simply meaning the right to profit from one's creations: The contract grants exclusive commercial exploitation rights for ten years.
- antitrust lawsRegulations preventing corporate monopolies
- profit maximizationPursuing greatest possible gains
- bottom lineEssential point or conclusion
- corporate greedExcessive pursuit of profit
- cash grabExploitative moneymaking scheme
selling out · cultural appropriation · market manipulation · resource extraction · copyright infringement · predatory pricing · licensing agreements · trade regulations · contract enforcement · human rights violations · patent disputes · pay to play · data harvesting · environmental degradation · consumer protection laws · carbon emissions · sweatshops · deforestation
- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- patentspatent, patents, patent application, patent office, patent applications
- publicity rightsimage rights, likeness, merchandising rights, celebrity endorsements, celebrity endorsement
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Generous giving for others
humanitarian aid · pro bono work · public service · gift economy · volunteerism
commercial exploitationconservation
Preventing waste or loss
preservation · stewardship · protection · sustainable management · restoration
commercial exploitationpublic ownership
State-held property or enterprise
commons · public domain · open access · gift economy · nationalization
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