June is Gay Pride Month. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City’s Greenwich Village. This event is often seen as the start of the modern gay rights movement in the United States – later expanded to include all gender non-conforming p... More

UNIEVRSAL CITY, Calif. — The Entertainment ID Registry’s (EIDR) executive director Will Kreth and director of engineering Richard Kroon were on hand for the May 23 HITS:Spring presentation “AFI & EIDR: Identifying our Cultural Heritage – Enabling the Future,” though... More

With the release this month of the J.R.R. Tolkien biopic, Tolkien (2019) and the final episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011), our thoughts naturally turn in the direction of the fantasy sub-genre, “swords and sorcery.” The term was coined in 1961 by author Fritz Leiber t... More

The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) and Digital Data Exchange (DDEX) are teaming up for the first time as part of an initiative that’s designed to streamline metadata standards, according to the companies. As part of the new partnership, the standards bodies will �... More

The Entertainment ID Registry Association (EIDR) and the International Standard Audiovisual Number International Agency (ISAN-IA) launched a dual registration service April 16, a result of the European Commission’s Audiovisual Standard ID policy aimed at boosting opportunities ... More

I never knew the charm of spring I never met it face to face I never knew my heart could sing I never missed a warm embrace ‘Till April in Paris[1] Doris Day sings the title song in Warner Bros.’ April in Paris (1952), appearing as Ethel S. “Dynamite” Jackson and... More

February gets the short end of the calendar stick, date-wise. There’s a popular myth that the Roman Emperor Augustus stole a day from February when Sextilis was renamed August in his honor, so his month would be as long as July, previously named in honor of Julius Caesar. That�... More

Leading Nordic media company Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT) just a few years ago was running into a problem. Growing fast and expanding the business across several regions, the media group discovered that it had several instances of the same title in its rights management s... More

Although some people mistakenly believe SMPTE’s recently standardized C4 ID is a competitor to the Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system or they’re concerned that its introduction muddies the identifier landscape, neither is true. C4 ID a... More

The Entertainment Identifier Registry (EIDR) global unique identifier system made a significant amount of progress with content in the past year and more growth is expected this year, with the start of EIDR’s second decade just over the horizon, according to Clint Richmond, ope... More