Adopts ISO 15707:2001 which specifies a means of uniquely identifying a musical work. It standardizes and promotes internationally the use of a standard identification code so that musical works can be uniquely distinguished from one another within computer databases and related documentation and for the purposes of collecting societies involved in the administration of rights to such works.
Table of contents
Header
About this publication
Preface
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Terms and definitions
3 Construction of an ISWC
3.1 Basic construction
3.2 Prefix element
3.3 Work identifier
3.4 Check digit
4 Administration
5 Association of an ISWC with descriptive metadata
