exclusive rights
Protected market control
Exclusive rights are legal entitlements that belong to one party alone, barring others from the same use or benefit.
A publisher might hold exclusive rights to print a novel; a distributor might have exclusive rights to sell a product in a territory.
The term appears frequently in contracts, intellectual property, and licensing: The studio acquired exclusive rights to the screenplay.
Exclusivity commands higher prices precisely because it eliminates competition.
- compulsory licensingRequired permission without consent
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- licenseFormal grant of permission
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- prerogativeExclusive right of office
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- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- Art Copyrightcopyright, infringement, fair use, copyright term, attribution
- image rightscopyright, model release, permissions, permission, attribution
- licensinglicense agreement, licensing board, application fee, license renewal, license fee
- market powermonopoly, oligopoly, cartel, market share, pricing power
- media rightslicensing deal, first refusal, derivative works, copyright, franchise
exclusive rightspublic domain
Unprotected creative works
open access · public access · common property · shared rights · communal ownership
exclusive rightsshared rights
Entitlements held collectively
collective rights · co-ownership · joint ownership · communal ownership · commons
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