Development Partners

IBM

Audible Magic licenses video fingerprint software from IBM to enhance and expand its portfolio of patented audio and video identification technologies. Audible Magic selected IBM after more than a year of rigorous testing and evaluation with more than a dozen video identification solutions offered by other companies. Comparative tests were completed using more than a quarter million real world user-generated video clips against a reference set of more than 50,000 videos from copyright owners. IBM's technology was clearly superior in the key measures of identification rate and the goal of zero false positives.

Audible Magic has integrated the IBM software into its CopySense A/V ID service, which combines Audible Magic's leading audio-based identification solutions with IBM's video image-based identification solution for unparalleled accuracy and reliability. Audible Magic will integrate the IBM technology into the CopySense Appliance that is sold to universities and internet service providers (ISPs).

For more information, please visit www.ibm.com.

Palisade Systems

Palisade Systems, Inc., founded in 1996, helps organizations manage and protect critical network assets against a variety of threats, from benign utilization issues to malicious attacks. The company’s appliances offer easy-to-implement, proactive approaches to control network level access, filter Internet and application access, and provide “decoy” style intrusion detection. Palisade’s PacketSure product, released in 2000, offers a patented approach to identifying and blocking network traffic from potentially dangerous applications. PacketSure has garnered considerable attention, including winning the R&D 100 Award and the eSchool News Readers Choice Award.

Palisade is the first network equipment vendor to license Audible Magic’s CopySense® technology, adding content sensing capabilities to their products. Audible Magic and Palisade have cross-licensed technologies and have jointly developed the first network appliances that identify copyrighted works “on the fly” combined with the ability to block individual P2P file trades.

Palisade’s appliances are installed in businesses, schools, and universities across North America, Europe, and Australia. For more information, please visit www.palisadesys.com.

RightsFlow

RightsFlow specializes in intellectual property licensing and copyright management. They provide professional services and outsourced music licensing solutions.

For more information, please visit www.rightsflow.com.

DVD CCA

The DVD Copy Control Association licenses Audible Magic the Content Scramble System (CSS) license. As a licensee of CSS, Audible Magic has greater flexibility to provide filtering and monetization services for movie, TV and other video content releases that use CSS.

For more information, please visit www.dvdcca.org.

Brilliant Digital

Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) partners with Audible Magic in bringing several of BDE’s technology patents to market. The technology includes BDE’s patents for hash code-based file identification. The license incorporates technology under BDE’s U.S. Patents 5,978,791, 6,415,280, and 6,928,442. This technology is built into a number of Audible Magic products such as the CopySense® Network Appliance and across Audible Magic API’s.

For more information, please visit www.brilliantdigital.com.