SANTA CLARA, Calif.— 2/23/2005 - Macrovision® Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the world’s leading supplier of content and software value management solutions, today launched a comprehensive licensing program for its VeriTOC™ worldwide patent family for music CDs. The VeriTOC family is comprised of 23 worldwide patents, many obtained from and developed after Macrovision’s acquisitions of MidBar Tech (1998) Ltd. and TTR Technologies, Ltd.
The term "passive" refers to the fact that these technologies are embedded in the optical media, and do not involve installed software on an end-user’s PC to produce their desired effect.
Licensing the VeriTOC worldwide patent family allows content owners, independent software vendors, content-protection providers and optical media manufacturers to (1) offer music CD fingerprinting; original-disc authentication; personal computer "shift key-immune" music content protection; and secure pass-through access to original CD content, and (2) embed these technologies onto the optical media of music CDs. Macrovision believes that comprehensive licensing of its VeriTOC worldwide patent family will accelerate adoption and development of these music CD technologies.
Macrovision’s market-leading CDS-300™ CD content protection product employs technologies derived from patents found in the VeriTOC family, which have been applied to over 450 million commercially released CDs.
"Macrovision is committed to providing its customers with products and solutions consistently supported by a solid intellectual property foundation, as evidenced by our extensive portfolio of patented content protection and digital rights management technologies" said Steve Weinstein, executive vice president and general manager of Macrovision’s Entertainment Technologies Group. "By offering licensing programs for these underlying patents, we intend to give our customers flexible choice in the marketplace."
For more information, or to inquire about obtaining a license, please visit the Macrovision
VeriTOC webpage.
About Macrovision Solutions Corporation
Macrovision Solutions Corporation is focused on providing a uniquely simple digital home entertainment experience by delivering solutions to businesses to protect, enhance and distribute digital goods to consumers across multiple channels. Macrovision's technologies are deployed by companies in the entertainment, consumer electronics, cable and satellite, and online distribution markets to solve industry-specific challenges and bring greater value and a more robust user experience to their customers. The result of deploying Macrovision's solutions is a simple end user experience for discovering, managing and enjoying digital content. Today, Macrovision provides connected middleware, media recognition, interactive programming guides, copy protection and rich media, data and metadata on music, games, movies and television programming. The company also operates an entertainment portal which can be found at http://www.allmusic.com/. Macrovision holds over 4,100 issued or pending patents and patent applications worldwide.
Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with numerous offices across the United States and around the world including Japan, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, and the United Kingdom. More information about Macrovision can be found at http://www.macrovision.com/.
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