Recognized, assessed, in use.

Where ISO 24138:2024 is adopted, what independent bodies say about the International Standard Content Code (ISCC), and where it is in use. A selection of sources, not a bibliography; dates are given as published.

01 / Standards and specifications

Standards and specifications

The standard itself, its national adoptions and the specifications that build on it.

  • 2024ISO/TC 46/SC 9

    ISO 24138:2024 — Information and documentation — International Standard Content Code (ISCC)

    The normative definition of ISCC. Adopted as AS/NZS ISO 24138:2025 in Australia and New Zealand.

    iso.org
  • 2025Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity

    C2PA Technical Specification

    Lists ISCC as a soft binding that reconnects provenance data with content after embedded metadata has been stripped; registered as algorithm io.iscc.v0.

    spec.c2pa.org

02 / Independent assessments

Independent assessments

Studies and reports by standards bodies, public institutions and researchers.

  • 2026IEC, ISO and ITU (World Standards Cooperation)

    Technical Report on AI and Multimedia Authenticity Standards

    Second edition of the joint mapping of standards for media in the AI era; ISCC has its own section, 3.11.

    worldstandardscooperation.org
  • 2026European Commission, DG CONNECT

    Study to Assess the Feasibility of a Registry of Text and Data Mining Opt-outs

    Names ISCC as the international standard for content-based identification in a possible EU-level registry of rights reservations.

    digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
  • 2026EUIPO

    Mapping of EU Databases and Metadata Standards for Copyright-Protected Works

    Highlights ISCC and the ISCC Discovery Protocol as a reference architecture for federated content discovery.

    euipo.europa.eu
  • 2025Heeger, Berchtold, Bugert and Steinebach (Fraunhofer SIT / ATHENE), Electronic Imaging

    EU AI-Act: Tagging GenAI Content

    Peer-reviewed paper that builds a traceability infrastructure for the EU AI Act on ISCC.

    DOI

03 / In practice

In practice

Registries, publishers and research platforms that work with ISCC today.

  • 2026Doug McCarthy, Open Future

    CommonsDB surpasses one million declarations

    Each declaration in the registry of public-domain and openly licensed works, contributed by Europeana and Wikimedia Sverige, binds to its file through an ISCC.

    commonsdb.org
  • 2025Ed Nawotka, Publishers Weekly

    Frankfurt Book Fair 2025: Identity Stamps

    Reports on content registries for AI licensing that build on ISCC.

    publishersweekly.com
  • 2026Chiang et al., BioHackrXiv

    Evolving FAIR Image Analysis in Galaxy for Cross-domain and AI-ready Applications

    Integrates ISCC into the Galaxy platform for reproducibility checks and dataset deduplication in bioimage analysis.

    DOI