http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/news.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance - The Source for the Latest Developments in Digital Watermarking en-US Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:00:00 -0800 http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/images/dwa_rss.gif http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/news.asp http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_10JUL2012.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance W, 10 Jul 2012 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) today announced that several of its members have seen increased adoption and commercialization of their digital watermarking technology and solutions in the first half of 2012... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_29FEB2012.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0800 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:00:00 -0800 We're very pleased to share with you, in advance of its public announcement, the agenda and speakers for the inaugural CLOUD COMPUTING CONFERENCE being presented by the Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA) at the 2012 NAB Show on April 16th... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_31JAN2011.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), the international alliance of industry leading organizations delivering valuable digital watermarking solutions, today announced that earlier this week at the IST/SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, it granted an award to a team of researchers for a paper that demonstrates originality, creativity, clarity and potential impact on the field of watermarking... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3ic5827d475c9bb436805f367fbb7c3763 Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:00:00 -0800 Web, 15 Sep 2010 09:00:00 -0800 Disney and Nielsen have joined forces to launch a free iPad app that could turn the device into a companion screen for content and social media synchronized to a TV program via digital watermarking... http://www.computeruser.com/pressreleases/b2b-magazine-pushes-the-boundaries-merging-print-and-electronic-media-on-a-recent-cover.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:00:00 -0800 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:00:00 -0800 The July/August cover of Summit Publishing Company's Healthcare Packaging magazine contains a covert, embedded digital watermark that will launch a video on web-enabled phones that employ the corresponding app... http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=202585 Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:00:00 -0800 Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:00:00 -0800 InDorse Technologies, the leading provider of file assurance and protection solutions, today announced that Network Products Guide, the industry's leading information technology research and advisory guide, has named InDIA a winner of the 2010 Best Products and Services Award... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_14JUN2010.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0800 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) today announced that its members have seen a surge of activity in the licensing, commercialization and adoption of digital watermarking technology and solutions in the first half of 2010... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/webcast_JUN2010.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 07 May 2010 10:30:00 -0800 Thu, 07 May 2010 10:30:00 -0800 Webcast Scheduled - The Case for Content Identification: Supporting New Business Models and Effectively Managing Key Business Assets... http://www.gxpress.net/news.php?viewStory=1103 Digital Watermarking Alliance Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:00:00 -0800 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:00:00 -0800 A new application of digital watermarking technology for newspapers was one of the novelties of the mediaXchange trade show in Florida... http://www.pharmaceuticalcommerce.com/frontEnd/1396-brand_protection_anticounterfeiting_pedigree_taggants_BLIS.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:00:00 -0800 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:00:00 -0800 Catalent Pharma Solutions is making available the technology of Digimarc Corp., which involves imposing an invisible (to the unaided eye) watermark in printed surfaces... http://www.bnettv.com/player.php?id=3199 Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:00:00 -0800 Wed, 18 Feb 2010 19:00:00 -0800 Dan James, the Digimarc Mobile Program Manager, speaks to bnetTV.com about digital watermarking and the mobile market... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_21JAN2010.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:00 -0800 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), the international alliance of industry leading organizations delivering valuable digital watermarking solutions, today announced that earlier this week at the IST/SPIE International Conference on Media Forensics and Security XII... http://www.v-net.tv/BlogDisplay.aspx?id=223 Videonet Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Digital watermarking can now deliver on its fundamental promise, which is to embed an imperceptible yet indelible mark into the video in real time, resistant even to severe picture degradation resulting from scaling, cropping, compression, and crucially camcorder copying... http://www.homemediamagazine.com/electronic-delivery/panel-says-drm-must-enhance-rather-restrict-content-17363 Home Media Magazine Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Users expect content to be online and will acquire it through whatever means they can if it isn't, said Jack Lacy, SVP of standards and community initiative for Intertrust, at a DRM panel at Digital Hollywood Los Angeles Oct. 20... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_23SEP2009.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) has released a new white paper, "Ensuring Child Safety in a Digital World / A Comprehensive Solution to Parental Controlled Viewing Across Devices and Platforms..." http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_23SEP2009.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) has released a new white paper, "Managing Valuable Digital Assets / Using Digital Watermarking for Copyright Communication and Image Search."... http://www.connectedtv.eu/civolution-water-marking-technology-poised-for-q1-2010-rollout-with-major-us-pay-tv-operator-291/ Digital Watermarking Alliance Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:00:00 -0800 The first large-scale deployment of watermarking technology in the pay-TV world should take place in the US in Q1 next year, Connected TV has learned... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/dwa/pr_10SEP2009.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0800 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) announced that 2009 has so far been a banner year in the commercialization and adoption of digital watermarking solutions... http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS93399+21-Jul-2009+BW20090721 Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Civolution, a leading provider of technology and services for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, today announced that it has acquired the Software and Technology Solutions (STS) watermarking business from Thomson... http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/06/15/nielsen%2C-watermarking-firm-digimarc-form-two-joint-ventures Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:10:00 -0800 Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:10:00 -0800 Digimarc, a provider of digital watermarking and other technologies, announced on Monday that it has partnered with ratings provider Nielsen on two new joint ventures, which the companies say will "leverage the intellectual property assets of Digimarc and the wealth of consumer and business data amassed by Nielsen..." http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=300001 Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0800 Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:00:00 -0800 When South Barrington police accused a man of recording a film at the AMC 30 movie theater last April, they thought it was a fairly routine, straightforward case. They soon learned he's suspected of being one of the top three members of the world's largest movie piracy operation... http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/05/watermarks-drm-file-sharing.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800 Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance, a group that encourages content owners to embed unique identifiers in media as a way to combat piracy and promote new distribution models online, released a study this morning on the prevalence of illegal downloading and the motives behind it... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_28MAY2009.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800 Thu, 28 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800 Deterrence Survey Shows Potential for Sharp Decline in Illegal Downloads - The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) today announced key findings from a recently commissioned survey on piracy deterrence. The study, conducted by Interpret, aimed to determine whether the inclusion of Digital Serial Numbers (DSNs) in online content would deter illegal file sharing... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/events_archive.asp#AMEC2009 Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 20 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800 Wed, 20 May 2009 09:00:00 -0800 Digital Watermarking, Fingerprinting, Filtering and Other Technology Solutions to Identify, Protect and Monetize Content: Understanding the Business, Operational and Legal Implications... http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/watermarking-co.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:00:00 -0800 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:00:00 -0800 Digital watermarking, in addition to good old-fashioned detective work, likely could to lead to the original culprit, who uploaded a pre-release copy of the upcoming X-Men movie... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_033008.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) released a white paper today to aid the mobile industry in distinguishing between the various technologies available to identify the content of printed media and seamlessly link to related resources in the digital world... http://businessofcinema.com/news.php?newsid=12167 Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00:00 -0800 Tue, 24 Mar 2009 10:00:00 -0800 E-City Ventures promoted E-City Digital Cinemas along with Yash Raj Films identified and took action against Chetna Cinema in Jetpur for allowing illegal camcorder recording of Dostana on its premises... http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126985.600-audio-trick-lets-authorities-watch-the-movie-pirates.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800 Digital watermarks built into movies now make it possible to identify the seat a video pirate was sitting in when they made an illegal camcorder copy... http://www.digimarc.com/resources/docs/articles/IEEE_computer_DWM_innovations_MAR2009.pdf Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 03 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800 Web, 03 Mar 2009 11:00:00 -0800 Watermarking-based applications can help content owners balance business requirements with consumer choice... http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/feb/25/illegal-downloads-government-strategy Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:30:00 -0800 Web, 25 Feb 2009 07:30:00 -0800 The UK culture secretary, Andy Burnham, is aiming to have the framework of an international strategy to combat illegal internet downloads agreed with the US and European partners by the autumn... http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117997678.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:00:00 -0800 Studios and their trade organization, the Motion Picture Association of America, say piracy is no longer an issue because of watermarking. Make no mistake, screeners still carry a variety of admonitions about theft or copying. A few even carry the command: "Break this video in half after viewing"... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/events.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:00 -0800 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:00:00 -0800 The Chair of each Watermarking Session of this Conference will nominate outstanding papers from their Session(s) for this Award, which will be reviewed by the Best Paper Selection Committee. The winning paper will be publicized in the 2009 Conference Proceedings, and the Award will be presented at Media Forensics and Security XII during Electronic Imaging 2010... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_102808.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry-leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, has elected a new leadership slate for 2009... http://www.sddt.com/Finance/article.cfm?SourceCode=20081027tqd Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 27 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 27 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Verimatrix issued a U.S. patent for features in VideoMark, a user-specific, forensic watermarking technology... http://www.civolution.com/pdf/Civolution_press_releases.pdf Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 The company formerly known as Philips Content Identification, a leader in content identification services and technologies based on digital audio and video fingerprinting and watermarking announced the completion of its spin-out from Philips Corporate Technologies... http://www.pr-inside.com/new-report-predicts-increase-in-use-r854759.htm Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0800 Report Buyer, the online destination for business intelligence for major industry sectors, has added a new report showing that digital watermarking and fingerprinting are important content identification technologies that are enabling applications that are positioned to pass $500 million worldwide by 2012... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_052908.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:00 -0800 Thu, 29 May 2008 07:00:00 -0800 Washington, DC, May 29, 2008 - The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, announced its endorsement of the Privacy Principles for Digital Watermarking issued today by the Center for Democracy and Technology... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_041008.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0800 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:00:00 -0800 Las Vegas, Nevada, April 10, 2008 - Adoption of digital watermarking by media companies and technology providers to manage and secure digital content across many new forms of distribution is increasing, while more and more media content contains the feature, according to the Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA)... http://www.geoconnexion.com/uploads/digitalwatermarking_intv7i3.pdf Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:00 -0800 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:00 -0800 With the explosive proliferation of web-based portals for hosting,viewing and disseminating remote sensing imagery, digital watermarking has emerged as one of the most valuable – and versatile – new technologies introduced to the geospatial industry in recent years. This technology is now being used commercially to protect image licensing rights and exploit metadata... http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=702423 Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Canon is studying the use of biometrics in plans to develop a new form of watermarking to protect copyrighted images... http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20080219005764/en Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Digital Rights Management (DRM) has seen its share of ups and downs. Fingerprinting and Digital Watermarking (DWM) are two extentions of DRM that are emerging across several media-centric applications with far reaching implications... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_012908.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:30:00 -0800 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:30:00 -0800 The DWA will feature a demonstration of how movie, music and television content can be identified and managed using digital watermarking across any device from anywhere at anytime... http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9856249-39.html?tag=newsmap Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:30:00 -0800 Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:30:00 -0800 From 2007 to 2012, the market should more than quadruple for technology called watermarks or fingerprints that can endow photos, video, and audio with unobtrusive digital identifiers, according to a new study... http://tinyurl.com/3d56m2 Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:00:00 -0800 MultiMedia Intelligence reports that applications leveraging content identification technologies such as digital watermarking and fingerprinting are growing rapidly and could surpass US$500 million worldwide by 2012... http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/13577/ Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0800 Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:00:00 -0800 GCS Research, a prime vendor on the ASRC Management Services (ASRC MS) Prime Vendor Contract for the USDA, has recently been awarded a contract to provide GeoMarc digital watermarking technology to the USDA Foreign Agriculture Service (USDA FAS). GeoMarc allows the USDA FAS to embed an imperceptible digital watermark into the pixels of satellite imagery. The watermark contains key pieces of metadata that is seared into the pixels of the imagery and will remain intact through the life of the image... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i1dd5aa717be94419d4755f484efdaf5b Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:00:00 -0800 The Nielsen Co. and digital rights management company Digimarc Corp. are launching a new service that will monitor and manage media content across the Web. The service, called Nielsen Digital Media Manager, will enable media companies to track their content throughout the Internet using digital watermarking and fingerprinting technology. In addition, it will allow content companies, peer-to-peer services, social networks and user generated content sites to manage and monetize online media streams... http://nab.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=237002 Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 More than 80% of media and entertainment executives believe that broadcast and Internet-video content owners are at risk of damaging their bottom lines if they don't employ technology to track, monitor and measure content, according to a survey released Monday by Myers Publishing and Teletrax... http://www.contentagenda.com/article/CA6501987.html?nid=3039 Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance held its first event Thursday, hosting a half-day symposium here to drum up interest in using digital watermarking and fingerprinting technology to manage and protect content... http://www.contentagenda.com/info/CA6501361.html?industryid=45173 Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Protecting intellectual property rights is not only important for the motion picture industry but is essential to the health of our economy. The U.S. economy today is changing quite rapidly. America’s future place in the world will be determined far less by the sweat of our brows than by the value created by our minds. This is a country that has always valued knowledge, and we will be challenged as never before to safeguard that value in our infamously digital world... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_111307.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance is co-hosting an event with the House Congressional Entertainment Industries Caucus (CEIC) to further raise awareness of the commercial benefits of digital watermarking... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_111207.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, today announced the addition of three new member organizations and that the DWA has grown its membership over 65 percent since it was founded 15 months ago... http://www.drmwatch.com/article.php/3706996 Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:00:00 -0800 DRM Watch is expanding by introducing a new section of the site devoted to Watermarking and Fingerprinting. Starting this week, you will see a Watermarking and Fingerprinting item on the left navigation bar of the site, which will enable you to view all stories related to these subjects in one place... http://blog.nj.com/digitallife/2007/10/broadway_video_its_a_steal.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:30:00 -0800 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:30:00 -0800 The Internet offers theater fans plenty of sites to indulge their passion. But the mother lode of thespian footage resides, of course, on YouTube. Though much of this grainy video appears to be posted illegally, it generates enormous buzz among passionate young fans - posing a dilemma for Broadway... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/news_nbc101907.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:30:00 -0800 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:30:00 -0800 Watch video footage as featured on Beartooth NBC's local affiliate KTVH... http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6485983.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:30:00 -0800 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:30:00 -0800 Content tracking and monitoring firm Teletrax said Major League Baseball will test its digital-watermarking technology during TV coverage of the American and National League playoffs and the World Series, making it the first professional-sports league to do so... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.com/pr_092607.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, today announced the DWA has grown by 40 percent since its founding one year ago, bringing the total number of DWA members to 17 organizations from around the world... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.com/pr_091907.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:00:00 -0800 The proliferation of digital media content and strong consumer demand has created many new distribution models for the media and entertainment industry. This has naturally elicited concerns about how content should be protected while meeting demand. Attendees will learn how movie, music and television content can be identified and managed using digital watermarking across any device from anywhere at anytime, and will hear about new approaches to identifying and managing content in HDTV, IPTV, Digital Cinema and P2P network environments... http://www.screenafrica.com/news/industry/543860.htm Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:30:00 -0800 Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:30:00 -0800 Time Warner's pay-TV service Home Box Office (HBO) will implement a comprehensive Thomson Shield watermarking system from Thomson to protect its pre-released screener content against piracy within its file-based infrastructure... http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9774979-7.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:15:00 -0800 Mon, 10 Sep 2007 16:15:00 -0800 Radio stations insert an inaudible signal that only the device picks up, and testers are supposed to carry the devices at all times, so regardless of where they listen (work, home, car, grocery store), the People Meter knows. Imagine if content owners, working with Arbitron or Nielsen or another enterprising company, could convince digital distributors (like iTunes) to insert watermarks into their songs... http://telephonyonline.com/iptv/news/iptv_watermark_protection_082807/ Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:00:00 -0800 Cinea, a subsidiary of Dolby known for digital watermarking technology, said today it will announce two major deals at the IBC show next week in Amsterdam that will position its technology in the consumer distribution space... http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/08/22/download_drm-free_music_from_walmart Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 It seems as if everyone is trying to knock the wind out of iTunes nowadays. A few weeks back, Universal Music Group decided it was going to offer up DRM-free tracks to various services, including Walmart, but refused to offer the same service through iTunes. Right now, it's unclear what method Walmart will use to track piracy of its DRM-free tunes... http://www.switched.com/2007/08/20/a-new-weapon-against-online-music-theft/ Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Record labels looking to keep their property off of illegal file-sharing networks have begun experimenting with a technology called 'watermarking' as the successor to DRM... http://www.techweb.com/showPressRelease.jhtml?articleID=X634253 Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 YuMe, the first dedicated advertising network created and optimized for broadband video, today unveiled its full suite of interactive ad products that will revolutionize the way advertisers buy video advertising and improve the relevancy of the video advertising for every viewer-regardless of device or platform... http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/commentary/listeningpost/2007/08/listeningpost_0820 Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 With EMI selling its entire catalog DRM-free and Universal soon to experiment with its open-MP3 format, the major labels are finally showing a willingness to abandon the rusty armor of digital rights management... http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-news/?p=1043 Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Mon, 20 Aug 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Music publishers are making the transfer from DRM to digital watermarking of music. While DRM definitely had no supporters due to enforced limitations on fair use, digital watermarking is at the crossroads of what can be an immense opportunity for publishers to create an open model for revenue or a privacy nightmare for users... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070819-activated-licenses-ms-watermarking-to-sell-ads.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 19 Aug 2007 23:00:00 -0800 Mon, 19 Aug 2007 23:00:00 -0800 Microsoft has agreed to license its audio watermarking technology to Activated Content Corp. of Seattle. We all know watermarking's place as a part of the music industry's DRM toolbox, but Activated — already a DRM watermarking player - now wants to use Microsoft's watermarking technology to get into the advertising business... http://ibc.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=152266 Digital Watermarking Alliance Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:00:00 -0800 Content tracking and monitoring firm Teletrax, a division of Medialink Worldwide, has won a deal from CBS to monitor usage of the network's promotional content by its owned-and-operated stations and broadcast affiliates... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_061107.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, today announced the alliance is seeing continued industry demand for real-world solutions to deter the piracy of entertainment content, better manage and measure broadcast programming, enhance the security of driver licenses, and improve the use of commercial and geospatial imagery... http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/04/29/news/local/news07.txt Digital Watermarking Alliance Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Sun, 29 Apr 2007 08:00:00 -0800 A small but growing technology company in Missoula is leading the way and changing the way we use geospatial information - and riding the growing wave of international demand. GCS Research created a software product, called GeoMarc, that allows data users to embed important information in every pixel of an image. The digital watermark that's created is invisible to the naked eye, but provides a way to call up that image and track its use... http://www.examiner.com/a-666311~Companies_developing_digital_protection_for_high_def_TV_signals.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Two companies are introducing technology to thwart people who make illegal copies of video-on-demand and cable television pay-per-view content. Both systems, one from Philips Electronics and another from Cinea Inc., a unit of Dolby Laboratories Inc., insert an invisible digital watermark into the content before it is viewed... http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1722391352 Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Another role could soon be added to the many already performed by home gateway devices: identifying video pirates. Home gateway manufacturer Thomson SA plans to incorporate video watermarking technology, which it also developed, into future set- top boxes and other video devices. The watermarks, unique to each device, will make it possible for investigators to identify the source of pirated videos... http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2007/03/where_are_the_f.html?campaign_id=rss_blog_blogspotting Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:00:00 -0800 The Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade organization with nearly one-hundred Member companies representing peer-to-peer and social networking software providers, content rights holders, and service-and-support companies, announced the publication of a white paper entitled "Digital Watermarking Technologies - Applications in P2P Networks"... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/news_bna020907.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:00:00 -0800 The entertainment sector is America's number one export industry," contributing over $625 billion to the U.S. economy each year, Rep. Diane E. Watson (D-Calif.) said. However, Watson, who is chair of the caucus, cautioned that "copyright pirates are expected to steal $6 billion a year," from authors and creators in the U.S. market alone... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/news_wd020607.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Digital watermarking is said to bypass some flaws in DRM implementation. The technology inserts a bit of identifying data, imperceptible to sight or hearing, into movies, music, TV programming and other media that may tell "readers" to limit its playback, trigger content filters, trace its lineage to a theater or link to free or paid content elsewhere... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/docs/dcia_pr_02052007.pdf Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 08:00:00 -0800 The Distributed Computing Industry Association, a trade organization with nearly one-hundred Member companies representing peer-to-peer and social networking software providers, content rights holders, and service-and-support companies, announced the publication of a white paper entitled “Digital Watermarking Technologies - Applications in P2P Networks”... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_020507.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:00:00 -0800 Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:00:00 -0800 Washington DC, Feb. 5, 2007 - The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, today announced a new white paper that discusses the key role digital watermarking can play in addressing the issue of orphan works... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_013007.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:00:00 -0800 The proliferation of digital media content and strong consumer demand has created many new distribution models for the media and entertainment industry. This has naturally elicited concerns about how content should be protected while meeting demand. Attendees will learn how movie, music and television content can be identified and managed across any device from anywhere at anytime... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_011107.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:00:00 -0800 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, today announced the addition of Widevine Technologies to the industry organization... http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72412-0.html?tw=wn_index_3 Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:00:00 -0800 Mon, 8 Jan 2007 02:00:00 -0800 Everyone knows the MP3 format is used by more devices and people than any other file-based digital-audio format. Most also know that record labels prefer DRMed alternatives such as the ones sold by Apple's iTunes, because they make it harder for people to share music... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_121806.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies involved in commercializing digital watermarking solutions, announced today that proven digital watermarking technologies are available to help the music industry identify and better manage the MP3 digital music files many labels are beginning to sell on popular music download sites while enabling enhanced consumer experiences... http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/12/labels_could_se.html Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance, launched in September of 2006 by a number of technology companies, has officially announced its support for the idea of selling music in the MP3 format, which Yahoo and others have been experimenting with recently... http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/magazine/opinion/e3ibULCX%2FKwfTpF%2BHLjEGryQg%3D%3D Digital Watermarking Alliance Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:00:00 -0800 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:00:00 -0800 The market has not evolved as envisioned by the architects of first-generation digital rights management. Today we find ourselves in an age of media distribution and management in which media move at the speed of light across networks to impatient consumers who expect their media when, where and as they like it.... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_102406.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:00:00 -0800 Tue, 24 Sep 2006 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies, today announced growing momentum and interest in digital watermarking solutions that are helping to deter the piracy of movies, monitor and verify the airing of broadcast programming and advertising, and more effectively identify and manage image-based intelligence assets... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_102306.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:00:00 -0800 Mon, 23 Sep 2006 08:00:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA), an international group of industry leading companies, today announced a new white paper that discusses how digital watermarking can effectively address the copyright and content identification issues facing the peer-to-peer (P2P) and social networking communities... http://www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org/pr_092006.asp Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:30:00 -0800 Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:30:00 -0800 The Digital Watermarking Alliance, an international group of industry leading companies, today announced its formation to promote the value of digital watermarking to content owners, industry, policy makers and consumers... http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=102412 Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:00:00 -0800 As reported earlier this year, Verimatrix Inc. is indeed releasing a software media player that will let IPTV customers watch all the TV content they pay for on their Internet-connected computers... http://www.techweb.com/wire/192201447 Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Digital cinema server manufacturers are embedding forensic watermarking technology from Thomson to protect movies shown in theaters from being pirated... http://www.broadcastbuyer.tv/publish/article_8361.shtml Digital Watermarking Alliance Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Tue, 4 Jul 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Two major Hollywood premieres have been shown at the Cinema Expo trade show in Amsterdam playing on Doremi Cinema’s digital cinema servers... http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/73765 Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Thu, 1 Jun 2006 13:00:00 -0800 At the Media- Tech Expo 2006, it was announced that the final version of the Advanced Access Content System (AACS) for the designated successors to DVDs - HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs - will be released this quarter. Among other things, AACS 1.0 will have an audio watermark to prevent copies of high- quality audio productions... http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117941884 Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:00:00 -0800 As the entertainment world embraces digital distribution, the major studios have been reluctant to join in, fearful that piracy would render their product - and their libraries - essentially worthless to them as pirates racked up profits in their place... http://www.drmwatch.com/drmtech/article.php/3593901 Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Thomson, the giant French consumer electronics technology company, will be introducing a new set of technologies for B2B content security in the film industry. NexGuard will be shown at the NAB trade show next month in Las Vegas and is expected to become generally available in June... http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2006/tc20060315_682466.htm Digital Watermarking Alliance Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Microsoft's chairman explains why he's bullish on the image-management market and the role his other baby, Corbis, will play in it... http://www.techweb.com/wire/181500543 Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:00:00 -0800 French media and entertainment company Thomson is making plans to unveil the first suite of its digital rights and content management software in April at a National Association of Broadcasters conference, company executives said Thursday... http://www.drmwatch.com/drmtech/article.php/3587141 Digital Watermarking Alliance Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:00:00 -0800 Philips Electronics scored another win in its Philips Content Identification division, which develops watermarking and related technologies. Its new video watermarking offering, CineFence, has been designed to meet standards for digital cinema...