commercial rights
Marketable legal entitlements
Commercial rights are the legal entitlements to profit from something—a name, image, creative work, or property.
Athletes negotiate commercial rights to their likenesses.
A film studio acquires commercial rights to a novel.
The band retained commercial rights to their early recordings.
The term often appears in contracts distinguishing profit-making uses from personal or editorial ones.
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- dealAgreement or distribution
- sublicensingGranting derived authorization rights
partnership agreement · trade secret · trade · brand · industrial design · termination clause · lease agreement · contract · license · confidentiality agreement · employment contract · proprietary technology · software license · brand identity · royalty payments · mark · licensing deal · cash
- image rightscopyright, model release, permissions, permission, attribution
- photo studioportrait studio, studio space, studio rental, studio assistant, backdrop
- Proprietary Termspatent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, intellectual property
commercial rightspublic domain
Unprotected creative works
open access · creative commons · open source · copyleft · common property
commercial, commerce, commercialize, commercialization, commercialism, commercially, commercials, right, rights