adaptation rights; derivative rights
Legal term for the right to create an adaptation or derivative work based on an original copyrighted work.
Adaptation rights are part of copyright.
Permission for adaptation rights is required to make a film based on a novel.
Derivative work; the product created through exercising 翻案権.
Compound of 翻案 (adaptation) + 権 (right). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is a modern legal coinage.