sale of rights

Probably not: the sale of rights to use technology that is changing rapidly cannot be entirely predictable.

But even at that rate of sales the publisher would not have earned back its advance without the sale of rights overseas.

The museum's governing board will either raise funds as the developer for the condominium or through the sale of rights to build the apartments.

Ironically it was the money from the sale of rights that was the start-up capital for the Toyota automobile endeavour.

Much of the film's $15 million budget came from the advance sale of rights in Asia, North America and Europe.

The $275 million brought in by "Coming to America" includes worldwide box office revenues and the sale of rights to home video, cable and broadcast television.

But this is not an ordinary deal because it is unlikely to end up - perhaps as soon as early next month - as a simple sale of rights.

As the I.O.C. approaches the sale of rights to the 1992 Summer Games, it is time to eliminate the greed that has overrun Olympic television rights acquisition.

Separately, $10 billion from the sale of rights to analog broadcast spectrum freed up by a switch to digital would be parceled out for hurricane relief, domestic security, home heating aid and other areas.

The Frankfurt Book Fair is a critical marketing event for the launching of books, but it is also an important event to facilitate the negotiation of the international sale of rights and licences.

He also had a wild hunch his literary agent had left a message about a sale of rights in one foreign territory or another, or maybe news of an offer for a film option, a reason to celebrate.

Diocesan officials defended the idea, comparing the projected sale of broadcast rights to the sale of rights to last year's Statue of Liberty celebration in New York harbor or the Super Bowl.

Another surprise was that the revised plan did not include any money from the sale of rights to build above the L.I.R.R. railyard on the West Side, the proposed site of a new stadium for the Yankees.

The Elan Corporation said today that it had settled its legal battle with King Pharmaceuticals of Bristol, Tenn., over the sale of rights to two of Elan's drugs in the United States to King.

Acceding to the above government requests became possible, with the triple benefit of removing government pressure, eliminating redundancy in the lines and schedules, and reducing costs for maintenance, capital, and taxes with the abandonment or sale of rights of way.

The bulk of it, according to Mr. Parretti's plan, will come from the sale of rights to the MGM and United Artists film and television libraries, in exactly the same way that a company's managers would sell its assets to finance a leveraged buyout.

New Jersey was divided into two proprietary colonies after the Duke of York's 1664 grant of the colony to Sir George Carteret and John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, and the sale of rights under the Quintipartite Deed in 1676.

The sale of rights to "Jailbreak" - like those to "Survivor," "Big Brother" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" - was negotiated by Ben Silverman of the William Morris Agency, who became an advocate of the reality genre during a four-year stay in England.

"They say this movie is going crazy, and they found this novel," he said, referring to the new film version of "Little Women" and the seven-figure sale of rights to Alcott's unpublished "A Long Fatal Love Chase," a tale of obsessive passion considered so sensational it was rejected in her day.