Foreign rights

/fˈɒɹən ɹˈaɪts/

/fˈɔːɹən ɹˈaɪts/

Foreign rights

the rights granted by an author or publisher to publish and sell a book in a language or country other than its original language or country of publication

Examples

1. We will respect HISTORIC institutions, but we will respect the foreign rights of all nations and they have to respect OUR rights as a nation also.

2. So, basically, if a publisher in another country wants to publish the book in another language, they have to buy the foreign rights from Penguin USA, which is the original publisher, and then they can commission a translation in that language for that country.

3. Or also, my publisher would like to sell foreign rights, and to have the foreign publisher be able to, maybe, make all the balloons bigger to fit with the translated text.