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- Published: 29 November -0001
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — October 6, 2003 — Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the leading provider of digital rights management and copy protection technologies announced today that its German lawyers, Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz, obtained a temporary injunction, without an oral court hearing, in the District Court of Frankfurt, Germany, against the Frankfurt outlet of Media Markt TV-Hifi-Elektro GmbH prohibiting the ongoing sale of the Macro 2000 copy protection circumvention device. Macrovision was granted the injunction under the newly-enacted German Copyright Directive that prohibits copy protection circumvention devices in that country. The Macro 2000 strips off copy protection from protected DVDs and allows perfect video copies to be made from such content. “We are very pleased with the Court’s preliminary ruling,” said Colin Nunn, Macrovision’s Vice President of Operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa. “This sends a strong message to the manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of circumvention devices that we won’t tolerate the circumvention of Macrovision’s technology in Germany. Macrovision will firmly defend its copyright protection business in European countries that have implemented the Copyright Directive. Particularly noteworthy was the Court’s decision to grant standing to Macrovision, as the owner of the circumvented copy protection technology, to take action in its own right against the sale, distribution and possession for commercial purposes of circumvention devices.”
About Macrovision
Macrovision develops and markets digital rights management (“DRM”), copy protection, and electronic license management technologies for the video, music and software industries.
Macrovision holds a total of 148 issued or pending United States patents and 1,036 issued or pending international patents, and continues to increase its patent portfolio with new and innovative technologies in related fields.
Macrovision has its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Taipei and Seoul. For more information, please visit www.macrovision.com.
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 filings 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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