Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A license giving rights of production or marketing of products or services to a person or company that is not the primary holder of such rights.
  • transitive verb To grant a sublicense to or for.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To underlicense; license to another person under the provisions of a license already held by the person so licensing.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun law a license granted by a licensee to a third party, under the authority of the license originally granted by a licensor to the licensee
  • verb law to grant a sublicense

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Examples

  • While gleefully announcing that Chomsky's website has (gasp) a copyright warning, Schweizer smugly points out that the site "does give you the opportunity to 'sublicense' the material ["].

    slackbastard 2009

  • Here is an excerpt from the Amazon Kindle Terms Of Service "you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party ..."

    Who Owns Your eBook? John Storhm 2009

  • Hansen Medical announced that it has entered into patent and technology license, sublicense and purchase agreements with Philips to allow them to develop and commercialize the non-robotic applications of Hansen Medical's Fiber Optic Shape Sensing and Localization technology.

    Today's Big Gainers: SBH, HAR, EL, BJ, HNSN MarketNewsVideo.com 2011

  • Here is an excerpt from the Amazon Kindle Terms Of Service "you may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party ..."

    Archive 2009-07-01 John Storhm 2009

  • In the recently-settled Trek-LeMond lawsuit, which had been removed to U.S. District Court in Minnesota in April 2008, Mr. LeMond and Trek each alleged the breach of a sublicense agreement.

    Cycling Investigators Subpoena LeMond 2010

  • I also actually signed a set of contracts for a foreign rights sublicense, althouh until they are countersigned I agin won't post anything about them.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2008

  • Users may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to...any third party.

    Archive 2008-04-10 Jak Boumans 2008

  • Users may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to...any third party.

    Archive 2008-04-21 Jak Boumans 2008

  • Users may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to...any third party.

    Archive 2008-04-19 Jak Boumans 2008

  • You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content.

    “Owning” vs. “licensing;” or, will e-bookworms gnaw our entrails? | clusterflock 2008

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