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Tim Bigoness
Director of Marketing & Corporate Communication
Scene7, Inc.
Office: 415-506-6022
Cell: 925-348-1894
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Leslie Constans
Digimarc Public Relations
503-495-4568
lconstans@digimarc.com
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Mizuha Nakajima
Revolution PR for Digimarc
503-997-6045
mizuha@revolutionpr.com
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September 21, 2004
Digimarc® ImageBridge™ Digital Watermarking Integrated into
Scene7® Infinite Imaging™ Platform
Integration provides industry leading brand asset protection and security
for companies utilizing Scene7’s dynamic rich media solutions
Tualatin, OR / Novato, CA — September 21, 2004 — Digimarc
Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) and Scene7, provider of the leading rich
media platform to grow revenues and enhance visual communications
– while automating media production and delivery, today announced
an agreement to bring advanced brand protection capabilities to digital
images served via Scene7’s Infinite Imaging™ Platform.
Under the agreement, Scene7 has integrated Digimarc® ImageBridge™
digital watermarking into Scene7’s single integrated platform
for rich media, enabling companies to dynamically embed a digital
watermark in images generated from Scene7’s platform. The companies
also plan to work together to develop joint sales and co-marketing
opportunities.
Digimarc ImageBridge digital watermarking weaves a unique, imperceptible
and traceable identifier into images, while the sophisticated ImageBridge
tracking system monitors the Internet and specified URLs, locating
digitally watermarked images and delivering reports to brand owners.
With this capability, organizations can determine that the right image
is used in the right place. This ensures that channel partners are
acting in compliance with marketing guidelines for campaigns and new
product rollout, and allows legal departments to effectively communicate
and enforce image copyrights.
Scene7’s Infinite Imaging Platform includes five key rich-media
solutions – Dynamic Imaging (dynamic zoom, sizing, art, color
swatching, spin, templates), eCatalogs, Dynamic Customization, eVideos
and Dynamic Asset Management – all built on a single, integrated
platform for automating the production and delivery of rich media.
At its core is a proprietary, high performance media processing engine
combined with a set of tightly integrated components that enable companies
to centralize, organize, author, manage, and distribute rich media
for multi-channel delivery. Scene7 dynamically generates and delivers
unlimited derivatives from single master images, allowing companies
to speed time to market and drastically reduce image production costs.
ImageBridge directly integrates into Scene7’s platform to allow
Scene7 users to easily enter their Digimarc information and apply
digital watermarks to any image or eCatalog generated by the system,
providing enhanced image protection and security while delivering
clear, consistent branding across channels.
“Online brand equity is linked to accurate placement of digital
images in the marketing channel,” said Andy Mallinger, director,
Digital Image Solutions, Digimarc. “ImageBridge watermarking
combined with Scene7 allows brand owners to know where valuable images
are being used both within and outside of the firewall, helping to
protect their brand assets and enforce digital image rights within
their channels."
ImageBridge is a highly complementary addition to Scene7’s platform,
and is now immediately available for all Scene7 implementations, including
full-service ASP, self-service ASP or license customers.
“Our customers utilize our solutions to produce and deliver
enhanced visual communications across multiple channels. The addition
of Digimarc ImageBridge to the Scene7 platform adds industry leading
content identification and tracking to ensure that our customers can
preserve and protect brand equity,” said Doug Mack, CEO of Scene7.
“We are delighted to be able to offer a superior rich media
experience combined with this new level of brand protection digital
image security to our customer base.”
About Digimarc
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), based in Tualatin, Oregon, is
a leading supplier of secure media solutions used in a wide range
of security, identification and digital media content applications.
Digimarc provides products and services that enable production of
more than 60 million personal identification documents and driver
licenses per year in 32 U.S. states and the District of Columbia and
more than 20 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 173
issued U.S. patents with more than 3,000 claims, and more than 350
pending patent applications in digital watermarking, personal identification
and related technologies.
The company is headquartered in Tualatin, Oregon, with other U.S.
offices in Burlington, Massachusetts; Fort Wayne, Indiana; San Francisco,
California; and the Washington DC area; and European offices in London.
Please go to www.digimarc.com
for more company information.
About Scene7
Scene7 provides the leading rich media platform to grow revenues and
enhance visual communications via the web, email, displays and print,
while automating media production and delivery. Scene7's integrated
platform for production, management and delivery of rich media enables
five key business solutions: Dynamic Imaging (dynamic zoom, sizing,
art, color swatching, spin, templates), eCatalogs, Dynamic Customization,
eVideos and Dynamic Asset Management. More than 225 leading companies,
in industries ranging from retail to hi-tech, have selected Scene7
products, including Macy’s, Scripps Networks, Home and Garden
Television, Microsoft, Office Depot, Levi Strauss & Co., Kinko’s,
La-Z-Boy and QVC. Scene7 has been selected as a partner of key technology
leaders including IBM, Microsoft, Coremetrics, and Akamai. Scene7,
a holding of QVC/Liberty Media, Moore Capital and Rhodes Partners,
is based in Novato, California. For more information visit http://www.scene7.com.
Securities Safe Harbor
With the exception of historical information contained in this release,
the matters described herein contain certain “forward-looking
statements” that are made pursuant to the "safe harbor"
provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
These statements are based on management’s current reasonable
expectations and are subject to certain assumptions, risks, uncertainties
and changes in circumstances. Actual results may vary materially from
those expressed or implied from the statements herein or from historical
results, due to changes in economic, business, competitive, technological
and/or regulatory factors. More detailed information about these factors
is set forth in filings by Digimarc with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including the most recent annual report on Form 10-K and
the most recent quarterly report on Form 10-Q. Digimarc is not obligated
to (and expressly disclaim any obligation to) revise or update any
forward-looking statements in order to reflect events or circumstances,
whether they arise as a result of new information, future events,
or otherwise. |
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