Macrovision Launches Comprehensive Licensing Program for Worldwide Pat

Macrovision Launches Comprehensive Licensing Program for Worldwide Patent Family Covering Passive Music CD Technologies

    Business Editors/Entertainment Editors

    SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2005--

The VeriTOC(TM) Family of Patents Covers "Shift Key-Immune" Protection, Authentication, Fingerprinting and Selective Enablement of Music CDs
    Macrovision(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: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).

    About Macrovision

    Macrovision develops and markets content and software value management solutions for the video, music and software industries. Macrovision's technologies are embedded in over 9 billion DVD, VHS and CD units representing over $130 billion of protected entertainment content. In the software market, Macrovision's software value management solutions are licensed to software developers. They include the FLEXnet(TM) universal licensing platform and the InstallShield(R) suite of software installation, repackaging and update solutions, which are deployed on more than 500 million desktops worldwide. Over 50,000 software publishers and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision's technologies to maximize the value of their software. Macrovision is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and has offices worldwide. More information about Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com.

    (C) Macrovision 2005. Macrovision, CDS-300, InstallShield, FLEXnet, MidBar, TTR and VeriTOC are registered trademarks or trademarks of Macrovision Corporation. All other brands and product names and trademarks are the registered property of their respective companies.

    This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause Macrovision's actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Macrovision's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and its latest Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2004, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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CONTACT: Macrovision Corporation Adam Gervin, 408-562-8563 agervin@macrovision.com or Macrovision Europe Simon Mehlman, +44 (0)161 740 3989 simonm@macrovision.com or ThirdWire for Macrovision Gary Byrd, 831-440-2414 gary.byrd@thirdwirepr.com

KEYWORD: CALIFORNIA INDUSTRY KEYWORD: HARDWARE MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE PRODUCT SOURCE: Macrovision Corporation

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