Not restricted to the person, group, or area concerned; not exclusive.
the broadcaster will buy non-exclusive rights for games from time to time
Example sentencesExamples
Capital Radio outlined the next phase of its online strategy today, with the announcement that it has negotiated non-exclusive Internet rights to music companies ' playlists.
Oxford University will keep any patents as well as a royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use the intellectual property internally.
Megabeam has also secured a non-exclusive deal to provide its service at 15 major UK railway stations.
If they're stocking 10 percent of work from a nonexclusive publisher, they might stock 100 percent of the stock from a publisher with an exclusive contract.
The social value of research tools as a means of making future discoveries is greatest when they are widely distributed on a nonexclusive basis.
A middle man delivers the product to retailers on a non-exclusive basis.
Riverdeep signed an agreement with SmarterKids.com to provide a two year non-exclusive licence to market Riverdeep's online learning applications.
This apparently led to the introduction of a provision in that agreement giving non-exclusive jurisdiction to the English courts.
As was the case with Time Warner, Microsoft has signed a long but non-exclusive deal.
The new nonexclusive deal now expands Sony's reach.
The company has a non-exclusive licensing deal with a subsidiary of Samsung to develop the lenses for use in its camera phones.
While nonexclusive licenses are the best way to spread valuable technologies widely, companies often need exclusive licenses to make a profit.
BT will also have non-exclusive distribution rights in Europe and will stump up license fees from software sales.
Much of the detail will remain confidential, although from the excerpts released it's clear that this will be non-exclusive and non-binding.
We would like to review with you opportunities to further develop our trading relationship on a non-exclusive basis and on new terms.
Synonyms
public, general, unrestricted, accessible to everyone, non-restrictive
Derivatives
non-exclusivity
noun
Every Apple fan says non-exclusivity will narrow the market share gap in the US.
Example sentencesExamples
Nonexclusivity would mean that products once produced would be available for anyone to consume without paying for it.
The search engine's insistence on nonexclusivity has given an upper hand to some of its toughest competitors.
Buddhism's non-exclusivity is appropriate to the modern world.
The move to non-exclusivity is a matter of 'when' not 'if'.