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Underlying & adaptation rights · Working

Sequel rights

ELI5

Permission to create stories continuing after the original work.

Used in conversation

“Please confirm sequel rights before the project is sold or released.”

Definition

Rights to create stories continuing after the original work.

Here “Sequel rights” means: Rights to create stories continuing after the original work.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Sequel 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

  • Prequel 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.