licensing rights
Legal usage authorization
Licensing rights are the legal permissions granted by an owner to allow others to use intellectual property—software, music, images, patents, or brand names—under specified conditions.
The owner retains ownership while the licensee gains limited use: The studio sold licensing rights for merchandise.
Licensing agreements typically specify duration, territory, exclusivity, and fees.
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
- patentObvious; inventor's monopoly
- royaltyPayment for usage rights
- trademarkRegistered commercial identifier
sublicensing · derivative works · creative commons · trade secret · ASCAP · partnership agreement
- intangible assetsintangible assets, patent, copyright, trade secret, brand
- media rightsfirst refusal, derivative works, copyright, franchise, exclusive content
- intangiblesabstraction, ideas, trust, concept, morale
- patentspatent, patents, patent application, patent office, patent applications
- Sports LaborPFA, player union, labor agreement, labor dispute, labor disputes
licensing rightsfull ownership
title · proprietary rights · property rights · ownership rights · freehold
licensing rightsprohibition
Authoritative legal ban
copyright infringement · unauthorized use · all rights reserved · cease and desist · revocation
licensing rightspublic domain
Unprotected creative works
open source · Creative Commons · copyleft · freeware · fair use
licensing, rights, license, licence, licensed, unlicensed, licensee, licensor, licensure