Information Networks
As the Internet continues to evolve and creative works can be circulated instantaneously, CISAC has expanded its activities to meet the new challenges that the digital age presents for the administration of authors’ rights.
A major part of CISAC’s technology development plan is adopting and implementing professional rules and technical standards in order to improve the quality of collective management of rights, to facilitate the exchange of information, and to maximise efficiency between societies. At the heart of this activity is the Common Information System (CIS)
CIS – Global Digital Management of Rights
The aim of the CIS is to create a worldwide digital rights management system, based on standardised identification of creative works and linked data exchange networks between the CISAC societies. By enabling CISAC’s members to optimise their day-to-day administration and information exchanges, the CIS plan has beneficial results such as automated transactions and more accurate and quicker royalty distribution between CISAC societies. CIS enables CISAC’s member societies to improve their efficiency with respect to both creators and users and to seize the opportunities that the Internet has introduced.
The CIS consists of two series of tools that provide the building blocks to global digital copyright administration:
- The first component features the integration of unique, ISO-certified, standardised international identifiers of works and parties relevant to the creative process.
- The second pertains to a network of global databases, or sub-systems relying on various centralised and increasingly decentralised technologies, that will serve as the repository of authoritative information on the creative process for all participating CISAC societies.