MySpace Implements Video Filtering System to Block Unauthorized Use of Copyrighted Content

Leading Lifestyle Portal Launches Pilot Program with Audible Magic, Becoming Largest Video Site to Offer Free Video Filtering to Copyright Holders

LOS ANGELES, California — February 12, 2007 — MySpace.com today announced it has implemented a pilot program to block videos containing unauthorized copyrighted content from being posted in its community. With the program’s launch, MySpace becomes the largest Internet video site to offer free video filtering to copyright holders.Read more


New Technology Helps Make Peace Between P2P Users And The Entertainment Industry

New Functionality For Audible Magic’s CopySense® Network Appliance Educates Users While Enforcing Network Policies

LOS GATOS, California — September 26, 2006 —

Audible Magic Corporation announced that its popular CopySense® Network Appliance now helps schools manage and educate users with respect to copyright policy and appropriate use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing. With a new add-on module, the CopySense Appliance not only filters the illegal sharing of copyrighted media files but also can now help universities enforce network policies by replacing manual processes.Read more


ATI Partners with Audible Magic in Advance of launch of Qtrax Music Service

NEW YORK, New York — February 1, 2006 —

ATI, Advanced Technology Industries, (OTCBB:AVDI) announced today that it has entered into a technology partnership with Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and identification services The agreement is in advance of the launch of ATI’s Qtrax legal P2P music listening and download service.Read more


Audible Magic Joins Amicus Curiae Brief in Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Studios Inc. et al Vs. Grokster Ltd et al

LOS GATOS, California — January 24, 2005 — Audible Magic Corporation has joined with other high-tech companies in the filing of an amicus curiae brief with the United States Supreme Court in the case of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. et al vs. Grokster et al. The amicus (or “Friend of the Court”) brief provided the Court information about the application of digital fingerprinting and watermarking technologies to peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.Read more


Indies Join Major Labels in Fingerprinting Songs for Copyright Protection with Audible Magic’s RepliCheck Service

LOS GATOS, California — October 25, 2004 — Audible Magic Corporation today announced a program that enables independent artists and labels to register their music with the company’s anti-piracy information service for CD pressing plants. Offered through CD replicators that use Audible Magic’s RepliCheck service for verifying copyrights, the program provides registration and digital “fingerprinting” of original works for a nominal processing fee. The company has previously announced agreements with Universal Music and Sony to register their musical works.Read more


Audible Magic’s CopySense Appliance — First Network Device Specifically Designed to Control P2P

First Network Device Specifically Designed To Control P2P

LOS GATOS, California — October 21, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and anti-piracy solutions, today announced the CopySense™ Network Appliance, the first product to give network administrators comprehensive control over P2P file trading. The product provides the broadest range of options for managing P2P usage, including:

  • Block only P2P transfers of copyrighted materials.
  • Block all P2P transfers.
  • Identify and log P2P usage.
  • Limit P2P traffic to a specified amount of bandwidth.
  • Establish specific rules for downloads or uploads from the network.Read more

Audible Magic Licenses DSP Technology to Adobe Systems

LOS GATOS, California — September 4, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and media information services, announced today the company has licensed software libraries, used for digital signal processing (DSP) of audio content, to Adobe Systems Incorporated. The libraries will be integrated into Adobe® Premier® Pro, the latest version of Adobe’s award-winning professional video editing software, announced on July 7th. The libraries contain algorithms developed by Audible Magic’s Muscle Fish division, the same division that developed the company’s patented solutions for audio fingerprinting. Acquired by Audible Magic two years ago, Muscle Fish was founded by a group of senior audio engineers from the sound research labs of Yamaha Corporation.Read more


SESAC Broadcasts its Use of CMJ’s RAM Service to Assist with Royalty Distribution

Service Powered by Audible Magic’s Patented Digital Audio Identification Technology

LOS GATOS, California — August 27, 2003 — The CMJ Network and Audible Magic have announced that SESAC has become the first corporate customer to utilize data from CMJ’s Realtime Airplay Metrics (RAM) airplay reporting service. RAM, the first service to comprehensively track airplay on college, non-commercial and “early-adopter” radio, utilizes Audible Magic’s patented digital audio identification technology. In light of its 25-year artist discovery and development mission, RAM is a natural evolution to CMJ’s growing platform of media, event and data-centric products and services. SESAC, one of the three major performing rights organizations in the USA, will utilize RAM data in its monetization of non-commercial radio and its ongoing effort to improve the accuracy of performance royalty distributions to songwriters and publishers.Read more


Audible Magic Forms Agreement with Universal Music Group to Support its RepliCheck Anti-Piracy System

LOS GATOS, California — August 12, 2003 — Today Audible Magic, a provider of technology and services that enable secure and reliable identification of audio and video, announced that it has reached an agreement with Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company, to support RepliCheck, Audible Magic’s anti-piracy information system. Under this non-exclusive agreement, UMG will become the first major music company to directly deliver its music electronically for inclusion in the RepliCheck database. This will ensure that UMG artists’ music is registered in RepliCheck’s anti-piracy database at the time of release. The RepliCheck database is one of the largest in the world, currently numbering 3.7 million songs, with more than 5 – 10,000 new songs added each week.Read more


Audible Magic’s Replicheck 2.1 Offers Enhanced Performance and Reporting for Music and Software Identification

MEDIA-TECH; LAS VEGAS, Nevada — May 13, 2003 — Audible Magic Corporation, a leading provider of content management and identification services, today announced RepliCheck™ 2.1, an enhanced version of its anti-piracy verification service for copyrighted music and software.Read more