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Lesser acquired the rights

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I am reading a text about 3-d technology and its usage in movie industry. I ran into this sentence "Lesser acquired the rights to five dual-strip shorts." and could not get what it means.

"During Christmas of 1952, producer Sol Lesser quickly premiered the dual-strip showcase called Stereo Techniques in Chicago.[35] Lesser acquired the rights to five dual-strip shorts. Two of them, Now is the Time (to Put On Your Glasses) and Around is Around, were directed by Norman McLaren in 1951 for the National Film Board of Canada. The other three films were produced in Britain for Festival of Britain in 1951 by Raymond Spottiswoode. These were A Solid Explanation, Royal River, and The Black Swan."

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When you acquire the rights to something you pay some amount of money to the original owner of some property in exchange for the legal right to profit from it, often in limited ways, and typically for a limited time. This kind of thing happens with books, inventions, land, virtually anything that's worth money. For example, a movie studio will often "acquire the rights" to a book or story for the purposes of making a movie based on it.

  • When you acquire the rights to something you pay some amount of money to the original owner of some property in exchange for the legal right to profit from it, often in limited ways, and typically for a limited time.
  • This kind of thing happens with books, inventions, land, virtually anything that's worth money.
  • For example, a movie studio will often "acquire the rights" to a book or story for the purposes of making a movie based on it.
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When you acquire the rights to something you pay some amount of money to the original owner of some property in exchange for the legal right to profit from it, often in limited ways, and typically for a limited time. This kind of thing happens with books, inventions, land, virtually anything that's worth money.

For example, a movie studio will often "acquire the rights" to a book or story

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