| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,197 |
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The ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) is a voluntary numbering system for the identification of audiovisual works. It provides a unique, internationally recognized and permanent reference number for each audiovisual work registered in the ISAN system.
The ISAN identifies works, not publications or broadcasts. The ISAN remains the same for an audiovisual work regardless of the various formats in which the work is distributed (e.g. DVD, video recording) or the uses to which it is put. ISAN (International Standard Audiovisual Number) | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Posts: 3,830 |
| | Posted: | | | | still only a limeted number of countries and for the US only 2 private companies?
it's main use?
° to track the use of audiovisual works;
° for anti-piracy purposes such as verifying title registrations;
° to assist collecting societies in the management of rights. | | | | Sources for one or more of the changes and/or additions were not submitted. Please include the sources for your changes in the contribution notes, especially for cast and crew additions. | | | | Last edited: by ? |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 3,197 |
| | Posted: | | | | Still in the early stages... And the US are always slow to adopt international standards, aren't they?  I think the main use is to give each work a unique identifier, which could become very useful in database management, especially for tracking titles in multiple languages. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 | | | | Last edited: by Nexus the Sixth |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 |  Posts: 273 |
| | Posted: | | | | so, will we see soon: ......Song Profiler???  |
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