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CHAIN OF TITLE FOR REAL PROPERTY Real Estate is one field where the chain of title has considerable significance. Various registration systems, such as the Torrens Title system, have developed to track the ownership of individual pieces of Real Property . In real estate transactions in the United States, insurance companies issue Title Insurance based upon the chain of title to the property when it is transferred. Title insurance companies sometimes maintain private title plants that track real estate titles in addition to the official records. In other cases, the chain of title is established by an Abstract Of Title , sometimes, although not always, certified by an Attorney . CHAIN OF TITLE FOR COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS, AND RIGHTS OF PUBLICITY In the Motion Picture industry, the chain of title involves the series of documentation which establishes proprietary rights in a Film . The chain also applies to compilations in other fields, where many people have contributed to the project, thus acquiring authorship rights, or where materials were culled from many sources. Chain of title is extremely important to film purchasers and to film distributors, as it establishes the veracity of the owner's proprietary rights (or rights under License ) in the Intellectual Property in a film, book or encyclopedia. Chain of title documentation can include:
Specialist organisations engage in the production of copyright property reports for motion picture studios, which cover original or unexploited works, and include the results of United States Copyright Office screening searches, author claimant searches, registration renewal searches and assignment searches. This involves reviewing US Copyright Office records from 1870 to present and numerous trade publications and databases, and Library of Congress records. EXTERNAL LINKS
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