Draft:Format rights
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Format rights is an informal concept in intellectual property law that covers rights to the format of a work such as a television show. The rights asserted to exist cross a wide variety of legal concepts, including copyright, trademarks, trade secrets, breach of contract, breach of confidentiality and passing off.
An entire business of format licensing is built on these concepts.