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License and Right eXchange — Knowledge Base

What is LRX?

The License and Right eXchange is a protocol and platform for managing intellectual property rights in the digital age. Think of it as a living registry where every creative work, every license grant, and every rights transfer is documented, verifiable, and traceable.

This wiki serves as the canonical reference for all LRX concepts, terminology, and practices.

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The term "exchange" here refers not to trading, but to the transfer and sharing of rights between parties.

rights flow

Glossary

License
A formal permission granted by a rights holder allowing specific uses of a creative work under stated conditions.
Right
A legal entitlement to perform a specific action with a creative work: reproduce, distribute, display, or create derivatives.
Provenance
The documented chain of ownership and rights transfers for a creative work, from its creation to the present.
Transfer
The act of conveying rights from one party to another, recorded as an immutable transaction in the exchange ledger.
Compliance
The state of adhering to all conditions specified in a license agreement, verifiable through the LRX audit system.
Derivative
A new work created by transforming, adapting, or building upon an existing work, inheriting a subset of the original's rights.

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How Rights Flow

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Register

A creator registers their work on the exchange, establishing the root provenance record.

2

License

The creator defines license terms specifying what others may do with the work.

3

Transfer

Rights are transferred between parties, each transaction recorded in the exchange.

4

Verify

Any party can audit the rights chain to confirm compliance and ownership.

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Every right has a story. LRX makes that story readable.