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Underlying & adaptation rights · Working

Adaptation rights

Also called: screen rights

ELI5

Permission to create and exploit a screen adaptation of original source material within an agreed scope.

Used in conversation

“Flag adaptation rights in the next rights review.”

Definition

Rights to create and exploit a screen adaptation of underlying material within an agreed scope.

Here “Adaptation rights” means: Rights to create and exploit a screen adaptation of underlying material within an agreed scope.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Adaptation rights” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

Connected terms

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.