story rights
Narrative licensing deal
Story rights are the legal permissions needed to adapt a person's life story, a book, an article, or other source material into a film, television show, or other creative work.
Studios acquire story rights before production to avoid lawsuits: The network bought the story rights to the podcast.
Securing rights from living subjects or their estates can involve complex negotiations over creative control and compensation.
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- screen adaptationWork converted for cinema
- optioningSecuring exclusive purchase rights
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- intellectual propertyLegal rights over inventions
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story rightspublic domain
Unprotected creative works
unauthorized use · copyright infringement · creative commons · piracy · open source
story rightsmanuscript
Original text before publication
source material · original text · tangible property · bound volume
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