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Macrovision Launches Comprehensive Licensing Program for Worldwide Patent Family Covering Passive Music CD Technologies
February 23, 2005 09:01:00 AM ET

The VeriTOC(TM) Family of Patents Covers "Shift Key-Immune" Protection, Authentication, Fingerprinting and Selective Enablement of Music CDs

Macrovision(R) Corporation MVSN, the world's leading supplier of content and software value management solutions, today launched a comprehensive licensing program for its VeriTOC(TM) 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(TM) 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 (http://www.macrovision.com/products/veritoc/index.shtml).