ISRC Seminar

In April 1999, the NCL ISBN Center was placed in charge of affairs pertaining to International Standard Recording Code (ISRC) in Taiwan. In August that year, the center commissioned the IFPI Members Foundation in Taiwan to issue and manage ISRCs. A year later, only a few publishers of audio material had applied for the codes, prompting the ISBN center and Government Information Office (GIO) of the Executive Yuan cosponsored a seminar on application for ISRCs. The center originally sent out 717 invitations and planned to hold the seminar at three venues in north, central, and south Taiwan in early October. It later decided to hold only one seminar in Taipei due to low expected turnout and the date was pushed back to Oct. 18. The seminar drew 155 participants from 132 firms in the recording industry.