ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number)

Geneva, May 2012 - The sinking of the RMS Titanic which occurred on the night of 14^th April through 15^th April, 1912 in the North Atlantic Ocean has always been a source of inspiration for the audiovisual world. At the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the legendary sinking, ISAN International Agency publishes a selected list of works (documentaries, feature films, series and even cartoon) inspired on it. (download the selected list of works inspired on Titanic’s sinking with their related identifying ISAN)

(Photo from http://www.titanicmovie.com/#/downloads)

Geneva, April 2012 – ISAN International Agency joins in the tribute to Marilyn Monroe for the 50th anniversary of her passing, by publishing the full list of her filmography with the related identifying ISANs. Marilyn Monroe’s myth continues to live within the Cultural Audiovisual Heritage !
(download the full list of Marilyn Monroe's full filmography)

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Geneva, December 2011 – ISAN-IA is glad to announce the opening of ARIBSAN US, the new US based ISAN Registration Agency, to assist American registrants in their ISAN operations. ARIBSAN US is located in Los Angeles, close to the major US studios (More)

Geneva, December 2011 – The ISAN Registration Agency ARIBSAN brings support to the Seminar on the use of European Film Standards for the Interoperability of Film databases, scheduled from December 14th to 16th 2011 at the Filmoteca del IVAC, Valencia, Spain.

Aribsan, the Iberico-American ISAN Registration Agencyis collaborating to the organization of the 5th workshop for the use and implementation of the European Standards EN 15744 and EN 15907 on the Interoperability of Film databases. This event, scheduled from December 14th to 16th 2011 in Valencia, Spain, is organized and hosted by IVAC the Valencia Audiovisual and Cinematographic Institute with the collaboration of the CEN/TC372, Deutsches Filminstitut, Aribsan and the Filmoteca Española. This seminar is the continuation of a first series of dissemination events granted by the European Commission and hosted by other major European film archives in Rome, Copenhagen, Prague, Paris.

During the three day workshop, presentations to help organizations to implement EN 15744 and EN 15907 are alternated with practical demonstrations in which the participants can contribute in sharing their own experience and work. The conferences will be held in English with simultaneous Spanish translations.

IVAC and ARIBSAN are collaborating for almost a year, to promote and stimulate the use of the ISAN identification system among the local audiovisual industry. Both parts of ISO 15706, the International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN), are referenced in EN 15744 and EN 15907 where ISAN is used as the preferred identifier to reference unambiguously cinematographic works, their variants and subsequent manifestations.
- IVAC web site (Spanish): http://estandares.ivac-lafilmoteca.es/
- Agenda of the Workshop : English, Spanish
- CEN/TC372 web site: http://filmstandards.org

Geneva, November 2011 – In recent years an increasing number of audiovisual Collecting Societies, including Procirep (France) and Egeda (Spain) , have integrated the ISAN number in their processes to improve the Management of Audiovisual Rights.

SIAE, the Italian Society of Authors and Editors, has recently implemented the ISAN number in its own process. The ISAN identifier is by now part of the SIAE requested audiovisual work information in registration form (modulo 117 Autori). The submission of this form is mandatory to register with SIAE all assimilated cinematographic works, including TV movie, TV series, documentaries, cartoon ect.

SIAE manage this kind of protected works, as well as feature films, for which they collect and distribute royalties to right owners. SIAE carry out their activities both in Italy (through their offices) and abroad (through the foreign audiovisual authors’ societies with which they signed representation agreements).

SIAE are also a member of IDA (International Documentation on Audiovisual Works), a CISAC database that uses the ISAN number within the automated data exchanges among Authors Societies worldwide.

Geneva, September 2011 - BAVP (Société de gestion collective des producteurs d’eouvres audiovisuelles belges) has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in the coming months to serve the French speaking and the Dutch speaking audiovisual markets in Belgium. BAVP, in association with Procibel (Société de gestion collective des producteurs pour la copie privée en Belgique), will found the future ISAN Belgium. (More)

Geneva, September 2011 - ISAN Finland is the new appointed ISAN Registration Agency for serving the Finnish territory. ISAN Finland has been founded by Tuotos, the Finnish Copyright Association representing over 500 independent Finnish film and audiovisual producers.

Geneva, August 2011 – Parking Lot (ISAN 0000-0002-DC5A-0000-Z-0000-0000-6), produced and directed by Francesco Gasperoni, is the first 3D Italian film to have received an ISAN code.

Francesco Gasperoni declared: "I produce and direct 3D films because I believe in innovation, also I trust ISAN because it’s an innovative tool for our industry. ISAN is of great support to producers, it enables us to fully exploit a film within the distribution value chain, especially on the international marketplace. ISAN allows us to track our films even when the title is changed for the international distribution in different countries and that helps us to better control the revenues in Italy and all over the world".

ISAN, the International Standard Audiovisual Number; is the unique and global identification system for audiovisual works and versions. ISAN has been standardized by ISO (ISO 15706) with the help of the Audiovisual Industry, to create a unique reference that is shared by all stakeholders. ISAN improves therefore rights and/or asset management, supply chain efficiency, databases interoperability, indexing, etc...
ISAN and is used today by producers, distributors, collecting societies, broadcasters and digital platforms in more than 52 countries. Local ISAN Registration Agencies have been appointed so far in 18 countries worldwide from which ISAN Italy that entertain strong relationships with the Italian Audivisual industry. For more information on ISAN Italy visit www.italia.isan.org.

Geneva, July 2011 – With the support of the MPAA, Aribsan has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency to serve the US audiovisual market through their local offices in Los Angeles. Aribsan US, currently founded by EGEDA, is expecting other US audiovisual market constituents to join soon the new Registration Agency. (More...)

Geneva, May 2011 – Film Foundation of India has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in the coming months to serve the audiovisual market in the Indian territory. Film Foundation of India is a non for profit organization with the mission of promoting the Indian films worldwide. (More...)

Geneva, Avril 2011 - ISAN-IA is proud to announce the appointment of the new General Manager of ISAN Italia: Federico Scardamaglia, member of the Associazione Produttori Televisivi (APT) Board and film producer (Compagnia Leone Cinematografica). Among his works, he has produced the recent series “Puccini” and “Una madre”, co-produced in collaboration with RAI. Scardamaglia has registered his works with ISAN since the beginning of the ISAN Italia activity, as he supports the high value of ISAN as the global and unique code for the identification of audiovisual contents. Francesco Adriano De Micheli (ANICA Servizi), Fabiano Fabiani (Chairman of the Associazione Produttori Televisivi- APT ) and Paolo Ferrari ( Chairman of Anica) have been confirmed as members of ISAN Italia Board.

Geneva, March 2011 - ISAN-IA (ISAN International Agency) is very saddened by the passing of the ISAN Italia General Manager, Carlo Bixio, who died on the 28th of February in Milan. He was 69. Well-known producer of TV programs and TV series, president of the production company Publispei, vice-president of APT (Associazione Produttori Televisivi), and advisor of the SIAE Administration Committee (Società Italiana Autori e Editori), Bixio served the ISAN Standard, by introducing the ISAN in Italy. As APT representative, he founded the Italian ISAN Registration Agency (ISAN ITALIA), established by a synergy between APT and ANICA (Associazione Nazionale Industrie Cinematografiche Audiovisive) with the co-participation of SIAE. Since 2008, he served ISAN Italia as General Manager. (More...)

Geneva, August 2010 - ISAN Denmark is the new appointed ISAN Registration Agency for serving the Danish territory . ISAN Denmark has been founded by Filmret, the Center for Rights of Danish Film and TV Producers. For contacting the Danish ISAN Registration Agency , click here.

Geneva, August 2010 - Beijing Institute of Coding for Resources (CCR) has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in the China Mainland. CCR has been implemented in early 2010 by the Center for Cultural Market Development of the Ministry of Culture, Copyright Society of China and China Association for Standardization. (More...)

Geneva, April 2010 -Tuotos, the Finnish Copyright Association representing over 500 independent Finnish film and audiovisual producers, has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in Finland. Founded in 1998 to improve the administration of film producers' copyrights, Tuotos' members are the Finnish Association of Independent Producers (SATU),the Central Organization of Finnish Film Producers (SEK), and the Finnish National Group of IFPI (ÄKT).(More...)

Geneva, March 2010 - Filmret, the Center for Rights of Danish Film and TV Producers, has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in the coming months to serve the audiovisual market in Denmark,Greenland and in the Faroe Islands.(More...)

Geneva, January 2010 - An ISAN code has been allocated to all films screened at the 45th Solothurn Film Festival, the most important event for Swiss film productions, which has started on the 21st of January and will go on till the 28th of January 2010. Every year the festival presents a representative selection of the current Swiss Films. The ISANs, assigned to each film, can be retrieved on the Festival Online Program where it is possible to get all the screenings.

Geneva, January 2010 - A new online ISAN Registration platform connected to the central ISAN Repository has been launched by Procirep (French Society for Producers of Cinema and Television) to provide the French producers a suitable tool to register their works within the ISAN French Agency. This platform, accessible by the web site www.france-isan.org and financed by the RIAM fund from CNC (French National Center of Cinematography) , has been developed within a Consortium among Procirep, ARP (French Society of Authors, Directors and Producers), SACD (French society of Dramatic Authors and Composers) and SCAM (Society of Multimedia Authors). Since January 2010, ISAN is mandatory for rights declaration at Procirep and ANGOA and for any project supported by these societies’ cultural funds. (More…) .

Geneva, November 2009 - The ISAN number has been made mandatory by EGEDA, the Spanish Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Management Association. Aribsan, Agencia Iberoamericana del Registro ISAN, has just released its new Newsletter. English version. Spanish version

Geneva, August 2009 - The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture, also known as House of Cinema , has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in the coming months serving the Iranian audiovisual market. House of Cinema is an assembly of 29 different Motion Picture Guilds in Iran.(More...)

Geneva, August 2009 - ISAN-IA (ISAN International Agency) is saddened by the passing of its good friend and colleague, Lawrence Safir, who died on August 5th, in a London hospital after a long illness. He was 62. Lawrence has served the ISAN Standard since its conception, being one of the main protagonists of the audiovisual industry who contributed to build up the ISAN Standard to establish a unique identification for audiovisual programs. Member of the ISAN-IA’s Board since its creation, during the last two years, he has also covered the position of President of the ISAN International Agency, bringing all his precious experience of the audiovisual market, acquired during his long and successful career.(More...)

Geneva, 28th July, 2009, Press Release - The ISAN International Agency (ISAN-IA) is proud to announce the arrival of three new investors: Agence Française ISAN (AF ISAN), Agencia Iberoamericana del Registro ISAN (ARIBSAN) and Secure Path Technology LLC, already ISAN Registration Agencies in France, Spain and the US. Together with founding members AGICOA and CISAC, the new Associate Members bring additional investment to the ISAN project, thus enabling the broadening of ISAN services to facilitate the uptake and expansion of the Standard by the Audiovisual Industry globally. ISAN-IA’s Board elected as Chairman Eric Baptiste, Director General of CISAC and awarded the exclusive Global License Agency to US-based Secure Path Technology LLC to support the accelerated development of the ISAN database licensing and querying service. “The ISAN standard is now in a major expansion phase” – said Eric Baptiste, Chairman, ISAN IA – “This new investment will allow ISAN-IA to broaden its geographic reach and enhance the level of service to the Audiovisual Industry”. (Read the Press Release)

Geneva, 12th March, 2009 – From March 2009, UK Film Council requires registered ISAN numbers to be provided as part of the delivery requirements for feature films receiving Lottery production funding. This will be extended to films receiving money from the Prints and Advertising Fund in late spring 2009, to coincide with the next update of the guidelines for that scheme.

Short films are not included in the requirement at this stage, but makers of short films may like to consider the advantages of ISAN registration, particularly if they plan to seek commercial or other distribution. (More)

Geneva, 25th February, 2009 – ARIBSAN Latin America is the new appointed ISAN Agency, located in Uruguay. Founded by ARIBSAN, the Registration Agency that has been acting in Spain since 2006, it will be soon operational.

Geneva, January 6, 2009 – Korea Ubiquitous XE Co. Ltd , (KUXE), has submitted an Expression of Interest for implementing an ISAN Registration Agency in the coming months serving the Korean audiovisual market. Since 2006, KUXE is the first provider of Blu-ray production and the only company having Blu-ray research development and mastering in Korea. Among their clients KBS (Korea Broadcasting System) . (More...)

Geneva, October 7, 2008 – ITV, one of the main private national broadcasters in Great Britain, is adopting ISAN for the content identification of all of its programs. This initiative, announced by ITV and ISAN UK, is in support of ITV’s digital strategy and will enable the tracking and monitoring of ITV content throughout the work across multimedia platforms. John Cresswell, ITV’s Chief Operating Officer, said: “the ability to exploit our content effectively is a key part of ITV’s strategy and using ISAN will enhance our ability to do this”. Max Graesser, ITV’s Director of Operations has also expressed his favor to this new collaboration with ISAN: “ITV is delighted to build this relationship with ISAN. It reflects our commitment to digital working and our intent to ensure a secure supply chain model”. As Patrick Attallah, ISAN-IA Managing Director, has said, ISAN adoption by ITV demonstrates the benefits of using ISAN for universal content identification and tracking. ISAN adoption by ITV arrives in the second semester of a year when other major audiovisual industry players such as Philips, Thomson and Harris have already implemented ISAN. It is expected that ITV’s backing of ISAN will increase its adoption both in the UK and throughout the world. (More...)

Geneva, September 29, 2008 – SE-YAP (Sinema Eseri Yapimcilari Meslek Birligi),the Movie Producers Professional Association in Turkey, has submitted an Expression of Interest for the implementation of an ISAN Registration Agency in the coming months in order to serve the Turkish territory. Se-Yap counts approximately more than 50 members among the local movie producers. (More...)

Geneva, 9th September, 2008 - ISAN : the content Identifier recommended by ATSC ISAN is the content identifier recommended by the Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC) in the updated approved standard A/57B, “Content Identification and Labeling for ATSC Transport”, published last May. ATSC states that when an ISAN is assigned to a broadcast audiovisual work, it should be used as the content identifier; the ATSC content identifier made of a house number can coexist with the ISAN. The ATSC content identifier alone should only be used when an ISAN is not available for that content.With this recommendation, ATSC aims to bring the method for content identification in line with those defined in MPEG-2 systems.ATSC is the Standard for Digital Broadcasting, replacing the analog NTSC system, adopted in USA, Canada and in many countries in Latin America such as Mexico, Honduras and Puerto Rico. Other Latin American countries such as Argentina are experimenting it. In Asia, ATSC has been adopted in some countries, among these South Korea. For these nations ATSC is going to be central for broadcasting as in the coming years, according to national laws, the broadcasting transmission have to pass to digital: USA is supposed to accomplish the switch off by February 17, 2009 and Canada by 31, August 2011 while South Korea by 31, December 2012. ATSC is an international, non-profit organization, developing voluntary standards for digital television. Formed in 1982 by the member organizations of the Joint Committee on InterSociety Coordination (JCIC) - the Electronic Industries Association (EIA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), the National Cable Telecommunications Association (NCTA), and the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) - it counts currently approximately 185 members representing the broadcast, broadcast equipment, motion picture, consumer electronics, computer, cable, satellite, and semiconductor industries. For more information download the A/57B document: “Content Identification and Labeling for ATSC Transport”.

Geneva, 8th September, 2008 - ISAN network of appointed RAs continues to grow. ISAN Österreich (Austria), the newly appointed Registration Agency, intended to serve the Austrian market, has been founded by the two leading institutions of the Austrian film industry: AMPA (Audiovisuelle Medienproduzenten Austria), the society of producers of audiovisual media , which also have being running for more than 25 years the "VAM Verwertungsgesellschaft fuer audiovisuelle Medien", the collecting society in Austria , and the "Fachverband der Film- und Musikindustrie" , the association of the Austrian Film- and Music industry. ISAN Österreich will be soon operational.

Geneva, September 2, 2008 – ISAN to be soon officialized in China. ISAN and V-ISAN standards will be linked to the new Chinese national standard for identification codes to be used in online video contents. The Chinese Ministry of Culture has announced that as part of a move to combat online piracy and protect intellectual property rights, China will promulgate new National Standards for the identification of online contents which will be compliant with ISO Standards, such as ISAN and V-ISAN for audiovisual works as well as ISWC (the International Standard Musical Works Code) for music and ISTC (the International Standard Text Code) for texts. The National Technical Committee for the Standardization of Information and Documentation (NTCSID) is currently working these standards which will be sent to the Standardization Administration of China (SAC) – the Institution representing China to join ISO - for approval before November.