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Underlying & adaptation rights · Working

Spin-off rights

Also called: spinoff rights

ELI5

Permission to create a new work based on selected characters, worlds or elements of an existing work.

Used in conversation

“Flag spin-off rights in the next rights review.”

Definition

Rights to create a new work based on selected characters, worlds or elements of an existing work.

Here “Spin-off rights” means: Rights to create a new work based on selected characters, worlds or elements of an existing work.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Spin-off 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

  • Remake rightsComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
  • Merchandising 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.