Macrovision Responds to Verance Counterclaims

Macrovision believes that the Verance claims have no merit and Macrovision will vigorously defend this lawsuit. The Verance claims appear designed to disrupt the DVD-CCA Digital Watermarking Solution bidding process.

SANTA CLARA, California -- April 15, 2002 -- Macrovision Corporation (NASDAQ: MVSN), a world leader in digital rights management technologies, has learned that Verance Corporation has amended its complaint previously filed against Digimarc Corporation to include Macrovision Corporation as a third-party defendant. The claims against Macrovision include allegations of patent infringement and antitrust violations. The case is pending in the District of Oregon, where Digimarc is located.

Macrovision believes that the Verance claims have no merit and Macrovision will vigorously defend this lawsuit. The Verance claims appear designed to disrupt the DVD-CCA Digital Watermarking Solution bidding process. Verance admits in its lawsuit that the bids for the DVD-CCA standard for digital watermarking technology for content copy protection for audiovisual content were due" on November 2, 2001 and that Verance was unable to submit a bid." Verance's contention in its lawsuit that Macrovision and Digimarc were required to assist Verance in submitting a bid to the DVD-CCA is legally untenable. Similarly untenable is Verance's allegation that Verance's audio watermarking technology could support the audiovisual copy protection sought by the DVD-CCA without the need to adopt a video watermark technology." The policy argument that audio copy protection is sufficient to protect video content has no place in a court of law and Macrovision believes would have been squarely rejected by the DVD-CCA.

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Macrovision (www.macrovision.com) develops and markets copy protection, rights management and electronic license management technologies for the home video, consumer interactive software, enterprise software and music markets. Macrovision has its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with European headquarters in London and Asia-Pacific headquarters in Tokyo.
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