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some rights reserved

some rights reserved phrase: the owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.

Phrase

some rights reserved

  1. The owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.
    • This page is covered by the Demos open access licence. Some rights reserved.1997, “Perri 6”, Demos, Escaping Poverty: From Safety Nets to Networks of Opportunity, page footer

Origin of some rights reserved

Modelled on all rights reserved.

Questions about some rights reserved

What does some rights reserved mean?
Some rights reserved means the owner, or other copyright holder, of a work simultaneously reserves a number of copyright-related rights and waives a number of other copyright-related rights.
What part of speech is some rights reserved?
Some rights reserved is a phrase.

Words near some rights reserved in the dictionary

  1. some ole
  2. some one
  3. some people
  4. some people have all the luck
  5. some pumpkins
  6. some rights reserved
  7. some small matter
  8. some something or another
  9. some something or other
  10. some something or the other
  11. some such

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