Members
The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) is an international alliance of industry leading organizations that deliver valuable digital watermarking solutions to a broad range of customers and markets around the world.
AquaMobile
www.aquamobile.es
Cinea
Cinea, Inc., a Dolby company, develops and commercializes a broad variety of content protection solutions for the motion picture and television industries. Current customers include major film studios as well as leading service vendors in television production and consumer electronics. For more information about Cinea, Inc., or Cinea technologies, please visit www.cinea.com
DataMark Technologies
DataMark Technologies Pte Ltd (DMT), a company based in Singapore and a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd, is a pioneer provider of patented digital watermarking solutions. DMT employs the state-of-art infocomm security technologies and patented digital watermarking technologies to address copyright and authentication issues pertaining to digital imaging. For more information, please visit www.datamark.com.sg
Digimarc Corporation
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), based in Beaverton, Oregon, is a leading supplier of secure identity and media management solutions. Digimarc provides products and services that enable the annual production of more than 60 million personal identification documents, including two-thirds of U.S. driver licenses and IDs for more than 25 countries. Digimarc's digital watermarking technology provides a persistent digital identity for various media content and is used to enhance the security of financial documents, identity documents and digital images, and support other media rights management applications.
Digimarc has an extensive intellectual property portfolio, with more than 360 issued U.S. patents with more than 7,500 claims, and more than 500 pending patent applications in digital watermarking, personal identification and related technologies.
The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, with other U.S. offices in Burlington, Massachusetts; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and the Washington DC area; and international offices in London and Mexico. Please go to www.digimarc.com for more company information.
GCS Research
GCS Research LLC is a geospatial information technology company headquartered in Missoula, Montana. We deliver integrated products and services that allow our clients to organize, protect, visualize, analyze, and share their geospatial information across distributed networks. We specialize in custom .NET geospatial applications and interoperable Web services that harness the power of location intelligence and deliver this information across the enterprise. GCS Research provides award-winning geospatial solutions designed to support connected workflows and powerful, client experiences.
Gibson
www.gibson.com
ISAN
The International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) is managed and run by ISAN-IA (ISAN International Agency), a non-profit organization, based in Geneva and founded in 2003 by AGICOA, CISAC and FIAPF. As a service organization, its mission is to implement ISAN throughout the world by providing and maintaining the ISAN system, appointing and supporting the network of Registration Agencies, and promoting their activities to the audiovisual industry.
ISAN is a voluntary numbering system to identify any kind of audiovisual works throughout their entire lifecycle from conception, production, distribution, and consumption. ISAN is recommended or required as the audiovisual identifier of choice for producers, studios, broadcasters, Internet media providers, and videogame publishers who need to encode, track, and distribute video in a variety of formats. It provides a unique, internationally recognized, and permanent reference number for each audiovisual work and related versions registered in the ISAN system.
Jura
The Jura Group, which was founded in 1992, has premises in Budapest, Vienna and Bangkok. Jura JSP GmbH has a team of highly qualified engineers who serve customers throughout the world.
MarkAny
MarkAny, based in Seoul, South Korea, was established in 1999 as an advanced leader of preventing document leakage and forgery, illegal distribution of digital content and watermarking products. MarkAny holds more than 200 patented applications world-wide, with products and applications that have been deployed extensively worldwide for enhancing the security and value of content. The company has provided DRM solutions to more than 500 firms and governmental bodies throughout the world. For more information, visit www.markany.com
MediaGrid
MediaGrid, based in Tokyo, Japan, was established in 2003 with a view to expanding the e-commerce service business by revenue-sharing model, and to commercialize a new business model used by consumers, which applies digital watermark technology. Nowadays the company is active with a focus on various mobile applications in the fields of Data Hiding, E-Commerce and other businesses by providing watermarking solutions enabling cross-media marketing and securing valuable digital contents, etc.
MSI
MSI provides forensic audio watermarking and copy protection, "Double Dip" to protect audio files, CDs and DVDs from unauthorized copying. MSI Copy Control enables Record Labels to protect the copyright of their signed artists against piracy right from the recording studio and throughout promotion and distribution. An easy to use "wizard" program enables new and experienced users to operate the MSI system within their own offices with access to a global look up database, and MSI can additionally provide an end to end duplication, copy control and distribution service from their offices in LA, NY and London. MSI is fully compliant with Rimage duplicating systems for high volume production.
Nielsen
www.nielsen.com
Philips
Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) is one of the world's biggest electronics companies and Europe's largest, with sales of EUR 30.4 billion in 2005. With activities in the three interlocking domains of healthcare, lifestyle and technology and 161,500 employees in more than 60 countries, it has market leadership positions in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring, color television sets, electric shavers, lighting and silicon system solutions. News from Philips is located here.
Signum
Signum Technologies is the world's premier vendor of advanced digital watermarking solutions for copyright protection and data integrity applications. Signum is a privately held technology company originally formed in 1997 and based in Witney, near Oxford, in England. The company's main shareholders are 3i plc and Foresight Venture Partners.
Users of Signum's products include a range of blue-chip organisations, notably IBM, HP, the BBC, Agence France-Presse, OKI Electric, Toyota, Mitsubishi, Glaxo Wellcome, Ordnance Survey, the British Museum, the John Lewis Group, RS Components and many others who have chosen Signum's solutions as an integral part of their business strategies.
The increased demand for Signum's data integrity, authentication and copyright protection software, marketed as VeriData and SureSign, has led the company to grow significantly over the last two years.
Streamburst
www.streamburst.co.uk
Teletrax
Teletrax™ is the world's first and only global broadcast monitoring service, providing vital television intelligence to video providers such as entertainment studios, news organizations, TV syndicators, and the advertising industry. Powered by cutting edge digital watermarking technology from Philips Electronics, the Teletrax service allows content to be tracked throughout its entire lifecycle and gives media executives near real-time, factual data about the reach and performance of their video assets.
Teletrax currently maintains a proprietary network of detectors that monitors the television broadcasts of nearly 1,500 channels from more than 50 nations, including all 210 markets in the United States, representing all measured U.S. television households. Its international network covers television stations across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Australia, South and Central America, and Canada. Teletrax clients include ABC Television Network, Associated Press, BBC, CBS Television, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, Fox Broadcasting Company, NBC News Channel, The NBC Agency, NBC Universal Domestic Television, Reuters Television, United Nations, ITN Networks, Euro RSCG 4D DRTV, and Medialink. A number of other companies are also in active trials with the Teletrax service. For more information, please visit www.teletrax.tv
Thomson
Thomson (Euronext Paris: 18453; NYSE: TMS) provides technology, services, and systems & equipment to help its Media & Entertainment clients — content creators, content distributors and users of its technology — realize their business goals and optimize their performance in a rapidly changing technology environment. The Group is the preferred partner to the Media & Entertainment Industries through its Technicolor, Grass Valley, RCA, and Thomson brands.
Thomson Content Security offers some of the most advanced solutions in digital rights protection, secure content delivery and physical counterfeiting deterrence. World-class research, our thorough understanding of content workflows, and a large portfolio of services and solutions enable Thomson to comprehensively address the needs of studios, post houses and broadcasters to mitigate their risk of illegal content redistribution. For more information: http://contentsecurity.thomson.net
Université Catholique de Louvain
www.uclouvain.be
Verance
Verance is a leading developer of technologies and solutions that track, manage, and enhance the use of media content. Verance holds a significant portfolio of proven audio watermarking technologies that have been deployed globally in a variety of business and consumer application areas. These applications include the Verance Content Management System, which is the worldwide industry standard watermark for copyright protection of recorded music and film and has been deployed in premium entertainment content and consumer electronics devices worldwide. Additional information about Verance and its technologies, products and services can be found at www.Verance.com
Verimatrix
Verimatrix sets the standard for software-based content security and revenue enhancement technologies in pay-TV networks, with a global customer base of telecommunications providers. The Verimatrix Video Content Authority System™ (VCAS) offers a suite of next-generation technologies that protect content and enhance revenue streams, while combating digital piracy wherever it occurs within the distribution chain. VCAS technologies include the patent-pending VideoMark™ — the industry's first secure and invisible content tracking solution that enables forensic, user-specific marking of video at each PC or STB client in a pay-TV system. Verimatrix's customers benefit with most favorable access to premium content, enabling the richest, most versatile viewing experience for their digital video subscribers. For more information, please visit www.verimatrix.com
Widevine
Widevine is the leading provider of downloadable content protection and forensic solutions for IP video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, internet, mobile, cable and satellite service operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution, identification and tracking of multimedia content.
Utilizing a combination of downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and digital copy protection techniques, Widevine enables operators to acquire and distribute premium studio content and, through unique patented technologies, reduce video related capital and operational expenditures. An innovator in the industry and holder of six patents, Widevine invented the renewable client security with the Cypher Virtual SmartCard — which today protects more IP video set top boxes, personal video recorders, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices in the industry than any other vendor.
Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.widevine.com
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