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What Does “Exclusive” Mean?
When the owner of, say, a research paper assigns an exclusive license in a work to a publisher, any prior nonexclusive licenses are carved out of the exclusive license by operation of law. That does not make the exclusive license any less exclusive. The license is still a transfer of copyright ownership, the publisher still receives an exclusive right, and the publisher can exclude any future uses of that right.
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