sublicensing

Sublicensing is when a licensee—someone given permission to use a protected product or idea—gives someone else (the sublicensee) permission to use it. Essentially, it's a chain of authorization: the original licensee has the right to sublicense, allowing them to pass on certain rights or rights to specific parts of the licensed material to another party. This is common in fields like intellectual property and software, where rights holders want to extend usage without directly managing all users. Sublicensing helps organizations distribute access or rights more flexibly, often under specific terms set by the original license agreement.