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Nutzungsrecht

Substantiv

partial

license

noun

Comparative law notes

Germany

Unless the context is very informal and less legal, we recommend staying away from translating Nutzungsrecht as license in order to avoid potential confusion among German readers. The German law uses the etymologically related word "LIzenz" to connote more of a process by which one person (licensor) transfers (licenses) a certain subject matter (such as patent or "right of use") to another person (licensee). Unlike people working in the Common Law who use term "license" to also mean the subject-matter right of use itself, German lawyers will typically draw a more nuanced distinction between that right and the process of transferring that right.

Definitions of license

English

a right to use property for a purpose without transferring ownership or possession. This right can be taken away at the will of the one granting the right.

Your lodger (=someone who pays for a room and sometimes for meals in someone else's house) has a licence to occupy your premises and not a full tenancy.

English

official permission to do something or to use something, often in the form of a document or other formal piece of writing

I strongly disagree with the proposed increase in television license fees.