Common use of Derivative Clause in Contracts

Derivative. Work is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adopted. A work consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is also a derivative work as defined here.

Derivative. Work Works is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picturepicture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgmentabridgement, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adopted. A work consisting of editorial revisionseditorial, annotations, elaborations elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship, is also a “derivative work as defined herework.”