all rights reserved
4
6.8
- idiom
- Formal
:
todos los derechos reservados
- The data in this table are copyrighted 1993 by the Psychology Corporation. All rights reserved.
- copyright notice "all rights reserved"
- © all rights reserved
- permission for all rights reserved
Examples
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International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
Academic text (1998) -
The Energy Journal, Vol. 20, No. 3. Copyright 1999 by the IAEE. All rights reserved.
Academic text (1999) -
c. 1999, The Art Institute of Chicago. All Rights Reserved.
Academic text (1999) -
Produced in cooperation with the zone 4 department of justice, all rights reserved.
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Used by arrangement with Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
Academic text (2005) -
2015, Occupational Health, Reed Business Information Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Academic text (2015) -
The data in this table are copyright 1993 by the Psychological Corporation. All rights reserved.
Academic text (1994) -
Copyright October 31, 1996 by Abiola Sinclair, all rights reserved.
Fiction book (1996) -
Copyright 1993, Walter W. Hudson, WALMYR Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Academic text (1997) -
"Copyright 2023 John Smith. All rights reserved."
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally built from the known meanings of 'all' (the whole set), 'rights' (entitlements), and 'reserved' (kept for someone), so a B1 learner who knows the words can infer that the owner keeps those entitlements and is not granting them. It is also a conventional legal formula with close parallels in many languages (e.g., Spanish/French equivalents), making its overall meaning transparently derivable even if finer legal implications require more specialized knowledge.
Etymology
All rights reserved comes from old copyright notices where the creator kept all the rights reserved, like putting them in a locked box so others cannot use the work. So, it means 'no permission to copy or use' without the owner's permission.