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Distributor

ELI5

A company acquiring particular rights and releasing or licensing the work within an agreed scope.

Used in conversation

“We should involve the distributor before we lock the plan.”

Definition

A company acquiring specified rights and releasing or licensing the work within an agreed scope.

Here “Distributor” means: A company acquiring specified rights and releasing or licensing the work within an agreed scope.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Distributor” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Connected terms

  • Sales agentA sales agent licenses rights to distributors or buyers; a distributor exploits the work in a market or channel.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.