ISO/FDIS 15706-1

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INTERNATIONAL ISO/FDIS
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STANDARD 15706-1
ISO/TC 46/SC 9
Information and documentation —
Secretariat: ANSI
International Standard Audiovisual
Voting begins on:
2021-11-30 Number (ISAN) —
Voting terminates on:
Part 1:
2022-01-25
Audiovisual work identifier
Information et documentation — Numéro international normalisé
d'oeuvre audiovisuelle (ISAN) —
Partie 1: Identifiant d'oeuvre audiovisuelle
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Foreword ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................iv

Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................v

1 Scope ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

2 Normative reference ........................................................................................................................................................................................1

3 Terms and definitions .................................................................................................................................................................................... 1

4 Construction of the ISAN .............................................................................................................................................................................2

5 Issuance of an ISAN ...........................................................................................................................................................................................3

6 Affixing and displaying the ISAN ........................................................................................................................................................ 3

7 Administration of the ISAN system .................................................................................................................................................. 4

8 Fees ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

Annex A (normative) General principles for the issuance and use of ISAN ................................................................5

Annex B (normative) Check character for the ISAN ............................................................................................................................ 7

Annex C (normative) Administration of the ISAN system ............................................................................................................. 8

Annex D (informative) Descriptive information for registration of an audiovisual work .....................10

Annex E (normative) Binary encoding of ISAN for audiovisual works .........................................................................13

Annex F (normative) XML encoding of ISAN for audiovisual works................................................................................14

Bibliography .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................16

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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation,

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 15706-1:2002), of which it constitutes a

— references to “ISAN International Agency” have been replaced with a more generic “Registration

— references to ISO 15706-2, IETF RFC 4246 XML, and Schema Part 1 and Part 2 have been added;

Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A

The ISAN project was administered by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations

(FIAPF) in association with the Association of International Collective Management of Audiovisual

Works (AGICOA), and the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC).

This document establishes and defines a voluntary standard numbering system for the unique and

An International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) identifies an audiovisual work throughout its

life and is intended for use wherever precise and unique identification of an audiovisual work would be

desirable. As an identifier, it can be used for various purposes, such as to assist allocation of royalties

among right holders, to track the use of audiovisual works, for information retrieval and for anti-piracy

purposes, such as verifying title registrations. The ISAN can also provide a basis for supplementary

identification systems when version or product information is required (e.g. for applications such as

An ISAN is applied to the audiovisual work itself. It is not related to the physical medium of such an

audiovisual work, or the identification of that medium. Annex A specifies examples of audiovisual

works for which an ISAN can be issued and examples of works for which ISAN are not issued.

The issuance of an ISAN is in no way related to any process of copyright registration, nor does the

issuance of an ISAN provide evidence of the ownership of rights in an audiovisual work.

The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content

constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For

undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

ISO/IEC 7064, Information technology — Security techniques — Check character systems

ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:

work consisting of a sequence of related images, with or without accompanying sound, which is

intended to be made visible as a moving image through the use of devices, regardless of the medium of

added character which may be used to verify the accuracy of the string through a mathematical

audiovisual work (3.1) which contains one or more other audiovisual works or parts of audiovisual

works, each of which is insubstantial in relation to the entire composite audiovisual work

EXAMPLE A feature film which contains parts of animated cartoons or other film clips; a television program

that contains footage from previously produced feature films, from episodes of television series, or from other

producer of an audiovisual work, authorized proxy of such a producer, or other such entity or individual,

registered within the ISAN system for the purposes of obtaining an ISAN for audiovisual works

Note 1 to entry: The term registrant as used in this part of ISO 15706 denotes an ISAN registrant for audiovisual

works only. ISO 15706-2 deals with registrants for versions of audiovisual works.

audiovisual work (3.1) produced in individual episodes or parts which bear a relationship to each other

4.1 An ISAN for an audiovisual work shall consist of a 64-bit number which when presented in

human-readable form (i.e. a form meant primarily to be read or written by a person, in contrast to a

form primarily meant to be used by data processing equipment) shall be represented as 16 hexadecimal

digits using Arabic numerals 0 to 9 and letters A to F of the Latin alphabet. An ISAN for an audiovisual

work shall be divided into two segments consisting of a 12-digit root segment followed by a 4-digit

segment for the identification of episodes or parts of a serial audiovisual work (see A.11). A check

character, in accordance with Annex B, shall be appended whenever an ISAN is presented in human-

4.2 When the work being registered is not an episode or part of a serial audiovisual work, four zeros

4.3 To avoid the possibility of duplication, any ISAN assigned to episodes or parts of a serial

audiovisual work shall not contain an episode segment consisting of four zeros (0000).

4.4 The ISAN shall be a “dumb” number (i.e. it shall not contain any codes or meaningful components

5.1 An ISAN shall be allocated by the Registration Authority from the central register of the ISAN

5.2 Each ISAN shall be issued to only one audiovisual work and each audiovisual work shall be

5.3 An ISAN is permanently issued to an audiovisual work, and shall never be altered, replaced or

5.4 Further specifications for the issuance and use of ISAN shall be in accordance with Annex A.

6.1 The ISAN shall be permanently incorporated in, or affixed to, the audiovisual work in all formats

(digital or analogue) and in all of the physical media in which the work is made available (e.g. celluloid

6.2 The ISAN should be included in the documentation, advertising, and packaging for an audiovisual

6.3 When an ISAN is printed or otherwise displayed in human-readable form (e.g. on labels, physical

carriers, technical documentation, etc.), it shall be preceded by the letters ISAN and its correct check

character, in accordance with Annex B, shall be added at the end of the ISAN character string.

6.4 As an aid to accurate transcription of ISAN in human-readable form, an ISAN should be presented

as four groups of four hexadecimal characters each, followed by the check character. Each of these four

groups and the check character shall be separated from each other by a hyphen or space. No internal

6.5 The characters A to F appearing in an ISAN and A to Z appearing in its check digit should be

displayed in upper-case letters when the ISAN is presented in human-readable form. However, the

lower-case and upper-case forms of these characters shall be treated as equivalent.

6.6 If a product number (e.g. an ISBN, a Universal Product Code, etc.) has been assigned to a particular

format in which the audiovisual work is issued, the ISAN for the work should be displayed on the

container and/or packaging immediately below and clearly distinguished from any standard number

6.7 Further details regarding methods of affixing ISAN to audiovisual works are explained in the

The ISAN system shall be supervised, coordinated and administered by the ISAN Registration Authority.

The name and contact information of the Registration Authority for this document s can be found at

The principal tasks of the Registration Authority shall be as specified in Annex C.

Reasonable fees can be charged for services which the Registration Authority may provide, subject to

A.1 An ISAN shall only be issued to applicants that are recognized as registrants by the Registration

Authority . The requirements and procedures for registration of registrants are explained in the users’

A.2 A unique ISAN shall be issued to an audiovisual work from a central register of available ISAN,

A.3 Once an ISAN is issued to an audiovisual work, it shall not be issued to any other audiovisual

A.4 Registrants shall supply descriptive information about the audiovisual work being registered for

A.5 Subject to provision of the required descriptive information (see Annex D), a registrant may apply

for the issuance of an ISAN at any time during or after the production of the audiovisual work. ISAN

may also be issued retroactively to works produced prior to the implementation of this document.

A.6 The issuance of an ISAN does not provide evidence of ownership of an audiovisual work. The ISAN

— productions for television or other means of delivery, including individual episodes of serial

— broadcasts and recordings of live events such as sports events and newscasts, and

— composite and multimedia works if they contain a significant audiovisual component, including

— any non-audiovisual element of an audiovisual work (e.g. the soundtrack, the screenplay, or a single