rights holder
Intellectual property owner
A rights holder is a person or entity that owns legal rights to something—typically intellectual property like copyrights, trademarks, or patents.
The term appears most often in contexts involving licensing, royalties, or enforcement: The rights holder demanded the video be taken down.
In publishing and entertainment, rights holders control how creative works are distributed, adapted, or reproduced.
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- ownerHolder of title
- licenseFormal grant of permission
- royaltiesOngoing payments to creators
- streaming royaltiesPayments per digital play
intellectual property · author · creator · content creator · patent · trademark · estate · publisher · fair use · permissions · contract · lawsuit · infringement · cease and desist · exclusive · legal · heir · artist
- ownershipowner, own, ownership, possess, proprietorship
- intellectual propertypatents, copyright, patent, trademark, trademarks
- image rightscopyright, model release, permissions, permission, attribution
- legal statuslegal status, legal capacity, civil status, personhood, legal entity
- licensinglicense agreement, licensing board, application fee, license renewal, license fee
- copyrightcopyright, copyright law, copyright act, copyright office, copyright notice
rights holderinfringer
One who violates rights
pirate · bootlegger · counterfeiter · plagiarist · trespasser
rights holderlicensee
Holder of granted rights
end user · consumer · public domain · audience · subscriber
rights, holder, right, hold, rightly, rightful, rightfully, righteous, righteousness