Chain of Title: What it is, why it matters.
What is Chain of Title?
Put simply, Chain of Title is the paper trail that establishes a person or company’s right to take proposed action with respect to a piece of property. The “chain” runs from the present owner back to the original owner of the property in question.
In the entertainment industries, this means a series of documents that establish that a producer owns or controls the right to produce a film, tv-show, play, musical, or what-have-you based on particular material.
Typically the chain of title consists of the rights-agreements between the creators of any Continue Reading