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Where a party, holds or claims proprietary interests in relation to certain types of property (eg. a creative literary work, or Software ), that property may also be the subject of Intellectual Property Law (eg. Copyright or Patent s).


HISTORICAL TERMS

  • a Proprietary Colonel owed his regimental command not to promotion through the ranks, but to a venal mode of appointment by the crown

  • In the colonial era, a (notably British) Monarch could, as a form of indirect rule, grant proprietary rights to individuals over a Proprietary Colony , in which the proprietors (sometimes styled Lords Proprietor s) were given exclusive control, not just ownership under private law, or to a Chartered Company .

  • a proprietary member is someone whose membership of some institution is a right derived from a specific property, especially real estate. E.g., the swansea harbour docks and over 20 miles of adjacent railways were owned and administered by a harbour trust of 26 members: the owner of the Briton Ferry estate (Earl Jersey), 4 representing the lord of the seigniory of Gower (the duke of Beaufort), 12 proprietary members and 9 elected annually by the corporation of Swansea.



PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE

: ''See main article: Proprietary Software ''

Software which is privately owned or controlled is known as proprietary software. However, the extent to which proprietary Right s can be claimed or maintained in relation to software is a matter of considerable Controversy (see Software Patent Debate ).

Proprietary software is not Free Software or Open Source Software as End-user s generally do not have the ability to:
  • Run the software for any purpose

  • Study and modify the software

  • Copy the software and provide it to third parties

  • Make and release improvements to the software



ETYMOLOGY

The word ''proprietary'' comes from the French ''propriétaire'', from the Latin ''proprietarius''. Compare with the Latin ''proprietas'' (property), and ''proprius'' ( Ownership ).


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