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Underlying & adaptation rights · Working

Prequel rights

ELI5

Permission to create stories set before the original work.

Used in conversation

“Has legal checked how prequel rights applies to this project?”

Definition

Rights to create stories set before the original work.

Here “Prequel rights” means: Rights to create stories set before the original work.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Prequel 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

  • Sequel rightsComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 8

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