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  • noun law A person or organization that owns the legal rights to a product

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Examples

  • I don't think that CCZero can on its own ever clearly cover all rights (or can any of the other CC licences), only the rights the rightsholder is licensing or waiving.

    More on CC0 2008

  • * Sometimes, for the purposes of promotion say, it is a positive advantage that copies are widespread and the fact that these copies will provide a direct link to the rightsholder is a major advantage.

    Copyright in a digital world 2005

  • And according to the typical rightsholder argument, any use beyond the scope of the “license” is a copyright infringement.

    Did Obama make QEII a copyright criminal? 2009

  • And he says he's planning to appoint private militias financed by rightsholder groups who will have the power to kick you off the internet, spy on your use of the network, demand the removal of files or the blocking of websites, and Mandelson will have the power to invent any penalty, including jail time, for any transgression he deems you are guilty of.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • In China like everywhere else, if a book is in copyright we don't show more than a few snippets of text without the explicit permission of the rightsholder.

    Baidu Takes Authors' Fire Loretta Chao 2011

  • Whether it was Bradley herself who wrote the letter to Lamb, or someone with the legal right to pen the next Darkover novel ... either way, it was a rightsholder contacting a fan.

    Marion Zimmer Bradley vs. Fanfiction jimhines 2010

  • If a rightsholder could not be located within five years, the Registry (which unsurprisingly is controlled by the plaintiffs) would share the profits from the unclaimed licensing fees.

    Peter Brantley: Google Books and the High Bar for Approval: Why Opt-In May Sink the Deal 2009

  • By definition an Orphan Work does not have a traceable owner and therefore, in contradiction to the Ortega statements, it cannot be digitised with the permission of the rightsholder.

    B2fxxx 2009

  • Libraries have traditionally striven for an equitable balance between the interests of the rightsholder and those of the user.

    Archive 2009-01-25 2009

  • But for out-of-print works, the settlement would allow Google to use the works without securing permission from the rightsholder.

    Peter Brantley: Google Books and the High Bar for Approval: Why Opt-In May Sink the Deal 2009

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