Options granted to shareholders to purchase additional shares directly from the company concerned Rights are issued to shareholders in proportion to the securities they may hold in a company
Each guarantee within the Convention is called a Right There are three types of Rights: absolute, qualified and limited
When a company wants to raise more funds by issuing additional securities, it may give its stockholders the opportunity, ahead of others, to buy the new securities in proportion to the number of shares each owns The piece of paper evidencing this privilege is called a right Because the additional stock is usually offered to stockholders below the current market price, rights ordinarily have a market value of their own and are actively traded In most cases they must be exercised within a relatively short period Failure to exercise or sell rights may result in monetary loss to the holder
Declaration of Rights An instrument submitted to William and Mary, on their being called to the throne, setting forth the fundamental principles of the constitution The chief items are these: The Crown cannot levy taxes, nor keep a standing army in times of peace; the Members of Parliament are free to utter their thoughts, and a Parliament is to be convened every year; elections are to be free, trial by jury is to be inviolate, and the right of petition is not to be interfered with
The permission or license to reproduce a picture These may be limited in many ways, for example by time or quantity (edition, circulation) or by geographical area or by language
A rights approach to a dispute uses laws, rules, policies or other methods that determine who has the "right" to do something The United States operates in a rights system, giving people rights under the law
Rights to a literary property include the following: prepublication serial (first serial rights); book publication, including book club; postpublication serial (second serial rights); book reprint; dramatization; musical comedy; amateur leasing; motion picture (commercial and noncommercial); radio, television; mechanical, electronic, or xerographic reproduction or other kinds covered in the inclusive term reprographic reproduction; condention and abridgment; anthology; translation; quotion; merchandising and other commercial exploition rights Most of these are also commonly referred to as subsidiary rights and are governed by the prevailing copyright law
Statutory and/or common law rights to a literary (published) property, which may include prepublication rights, initial publication rights, second or serial publication rights, and rights to dramatization, leasing, reproduction (video, electronic, xerographic, facsimile), condensation and abridgement, translation, quotation, and commercial exploitation *
generally, "an interest or title in an object of property; a just and legal claim to hold, use, or enjoy it, or to convey or donate it" (Black's Law Dictionary) In the Digital Library the "object of property" is an information good or service
A privilege granted to existing shareholders of a corporation to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before it is offered to the public
The permissions granted by a copyright owner that allow someone else to sell the copyrighted work, such as the rights to print, publish, and sell the hardcover version of a book, or the translation rights, the film and television rights, or the electronic rights
The Dublin Core element used to provide a link to information about rights held in and over the resource Typically a Rights element will contain a rights management statement for the resource, or reference a service providing such information Rights information often encompasses Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Copyright, and various Property Rights If the rights element is absent, no assumptions can be made about the status of these and other rights with respect to the resource See section 4 of the Dublin Core Users Guide
In a contract, typically the publisher is "buying" the ability to control the author's work for a set amount of time and for set purposes Some contracts include rights for a number of years, for publication in various forums including print, print on demand, e-publishing Some even include film rights, meaning the publisher has purchased the ability to negotiate with a Hollywood producer to film your story on your behalf, for a pre-determined percentage Royalties: The money the author makes on a book Typically, an agreed upon percentage of the cover price, based on book sales
Rights allow existing shareholders of a corporation to subscribe to shares of a new issue of common stock before that stock is offered to the public A right usually has a life of 2 to 4 weeks, is transferable, and entitles the holder to buy the new common stock below the Public Offering Price Rights are often granted to protect existing shareholders from the effects of dilution