NEW YORK- 4/26/2006 - eMeta, a division of Macrovision® Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), today announced that the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE), the energy industry's leading professional organization, has selected RightAccess, the access control product within eRights Suite, to secure and license digital content, including service-delivered applications, at its Web site, www.spe.org.
"Our members and customers need simple and easy access to SPE's highly valued content and services. We selected the RightAccess product because of its authentication and authorization toolkit," said Robert Wyatt, director of information technology for SPE, which has 69,000 members worldwide. "We also wanted the ability to provide more secure and flexible services to our corporate customers."
RightAccess will enable SPE to control access to its ejournals, archives and other premium member services, including individual account information and Membership Directory, and its eLibrary of technical papers, an extensive source of technical information in the E&P industry.
"The Society of Petroleum Engineers is the newest addition to a long roster of scientific, technical and medical (STM) content providers who have selected eRights Suite to license digital goods and services," said Fred Amoroso, CEO of Macrovision. "We're very pleased that we can continue to serve this critical market, one of the first to adopt this technology."
eRights Suite, available both as an installed or hosted (ASP) solution, allows organizations to effectively control and commercialize digital goods and services, including text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software applications (SaaS).
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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