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Understanding the Importance of Derivative Works



by John T. Westermeier
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P. - Reston Office

June 25, 2009

Previously published by E-Commerce Law & Strategy on March 2009

The right to create derivative works is one of the exclusive rights of a copyright holder. This adaptation right is often referred to as the most powerful of all the exclusive rights in copyright, because the right to adapt and to modify permits the grantee the right to improve a copyrighted work, and creates new copyrights that vest in the developer of the derivative work, subject to the rights in the preexisting work.


 

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