Who can apply for an ISAN?
All potential applicants for ISAN must apply first to an ISAN registration agency for a login in order to be recognized as a registrant within the ISAN system. The entity or person to whom an ISAN is given should have the capacity to permanently attach or link that ISAN to the specific audiovisual work that it identifies (i.e. producer, publisher, broadcaster). The purpose of this pre-registration process is to minimize the opportunity for unauthorized persons to obtain legitimate ISANs for stolen intellectual property and fraudulent purposes. This pre-registration process only applies to first-time ISAN applicants; it is not repeated for any subsequent ISAN applications from the same registrant. New applicants for registrant status will be asked to submit some form of proof of their involvement in the audiovisual industry (e.g. membership in or sponsorship by a recognized trade association, declaration of activity in the audiovisual industry, funding by a public agency, etc.) and will
