right of first publication

1. 1.

   a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work

   Synonymscopyright

   Broaderdocumentlegal right

Questions about right of first publication

What does right of first publication mean?

right of first publication means "a document granting exclusive right to publish and sell literary or musical or artistic work".

What is another word for right of first publication?

Close synonyms include copyright. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is right of first publication a common word?

right of first publication is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.