noun
adaptation rights; derivative rights
Legal term for the right to create an adaptation or derivative work based on an original copyrighted work.
翻案権は著作権の一部です。
Adaptation rights are part of copyright.
小説の映画化には翻案権の許諾が必要です。
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.