public transmission right
A copyright holder's exclusive right to make a work publicly transmittable, including web uploads and broadcasting. Primarily a legal term under Japanese copyright law.
Under copyright law, the public transmission right is one of the important rights of the author.
Uploading someone else's work to a website without permission may infringe the public transmission right.
Compound of 公衆 (public) + 送信 (transmission) + 権 (right). A modern legal term coined in Japanese copyright law.