exclusive right
Protected legal entitlement
An exclusive right is a legal entitlement held by one party alone, barring all others from the same privilege.
Patent holders have exclusive rights to manufacture their inventions.
Copyright grants exclusive rights to reproduce creative works.
The publisher secured exclusive rights to the memoir.
The term appears frequently in contracts, intellectual property law, and licensing agreements.
- first refusalPriority purchasing right
- prerogativeExclusive right of office
- privilegeExclusive right or benefit
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
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exclusive rightshared access
Permission held by several
open access · public access · universal access · free access · fair use
exclusive rightpublic domain
Unprotected creative works
common ownership · collective ownership · commons · common property · communal ownership
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