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Clearance, privacy & defamation · Core

Chain of title

Also called: COT

ELI5

The paperwork showing who owns the rights and how they passed from one person or company to another.

Used in conversation

“The financier will not close until the chain of title is complete.”

Definition

The documented history showing how the rights needed to make and exploit a project are controlled.

Here “Chain of title” means: The documented history showing how the rights needed to make and exploit a project are controlled.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Chain of title” in rights, contracts, finance, distribution & labour conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains who controls, pays for, approves, exploits or bears risk around a project.

Caution

Meaning and consequences may change by contract, collective agreement, territory or law. This entry is orientation, not legal advice.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.