Where OriginalRights fits across the creative pipeline—protecting authorship, streamlining chain-of-title, de-risking deals, and speeding international collaboration.
“The crucial thing is to have evidence of when it was first made, such as a dated email to yourself or a digital time-stamp.”UK Intellectual Property Office — “Copyright myths: the truth about protecting your work”
“Chain of title is extremely important to film purchasers and distributors…”The Clearance Lab — “Chain of Title in the Film Industry”
“Broadcasters and platform commissioners are under pressure to own and control as much intellectual property as they can…”WIPO — Rights, Camera, Action! (p. 97)
Related: “OTT platforms working with law firms to avoid IP controversies”
“Data copied from an electronic device… if authenticated by a process of digital identification…”Pennsylvania Rule of Evidence 902(14) (mirrors FRE 902(14))
“It is the policy of the Guild that arbiters in credit arbitrations must assume that a writer has access to prior literary material verified for arbitration.”Writers Guild of America — Screen Credits Manual
“Including copyright in your lesson plans is both necessary and valuable.”Library of Congress — Copyright Office Blog (Aug 2024)
“International co-productions travel and perform better than purely national films… [and] have access to financing not available to national films.”European Audiovisual Observatory — Cannes Conference Note
Also see: BFI — Official Co-production guidance (access to UK tax relief)
“The Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author.”U.S. Copyright Office — AI Guidance
“Most independent films with a budget of over USD 5 million will generally need to pre-sell some foreign rights to close their production financing.”WIPO — Rights, Camera, Action! (p. 136)
Outcome: faster resolution due to clear, timestamped provenance and analytic evidence.