Macrovision Releases New Version of GTlicensing

Modified architecture of GTlicensing 4.0 enhances performance and supports XML for web deployment of FLEXlm® Electronic Licenses

London, England - December 16, 2002 -- Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN), the leading developer and supplier of electronic licensing, digital rights management (DRM") and copy protection technologies, announced today that its Enterprise Software Division has released GTlicensing Version 4.0 for general availability.

GTlicensing is a highly scalable, enterprise-class software solution that supports a wide range of digital licensing functions, including the automatic generation and distribution of licenses over the Internet, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

This release represents a major advance in the product architecture, allowing vendors of digitally licensed products more control over their customer-facing licensing portal, providing a more robust enterprise solution, and significantly increasing performance. We are very pleased with the initial feedback from our beta testers at major corporations," said Toby Gawin, vice president worldwide marketing, Macrovisions Enterprise Software Division.

Software vendors are increasingly faced with complex product management issues, such as multiple product offerings and their associated upgrade and maintenance releases, which are efficiently handled by GTlicensing. GTlicensing 4.0 provides software vendors with an efficient system that will greatly reduce costs, increase revenue and allow them to better service their customers.

In keeping with industry trends, GTlicensing now uses technologies such as XML and JSP, making it easier for software vendors to integrate the product to better fit their licensing policies, and to modify customer license fulfillment web pages to provide a higher level of customer satisfaction.

GTlicensing is compatible with a host of the most popular network platforms and operating systems, including Windows, Solaris, and Linux.

Software vendors have shipped over $40 billion worth of software using FLEXlm electronic licensing technology. According to International Data Corp, 65% of the worldwide software market will be delivered using electronic licensing by 2006, rising from 43% in 2001.

About FLEXlm

FLEXlm is a software application toolkit that electronically manages compliance with software vendors licensing policies either on individual computers or within a network environment. FLEXlm is available for MS® Windows®, Solaris, AIX and other UNIX variants, three Linux variants, and selected embedded operating systems, and supports over 100 different license types which, on a combined basis, enable thousands of unique business models. FLEXbill, a license management solution based upon FLEXlm, allows vendors to implement 'Pay As You Go pricing models through analysis of authenticated usage log files.

About Macrovision

Macrovision develops and markets electronic license management, digital rights management and copy protection technologies for the enterprise and consumer software, home video and music markets. Macrovision has its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Seoul.

Its electronic license management (ELM") solutions for business software applications, led by FLEXlm and GTlicensing, have been licensed to over 2,500 ISVs (independent software vendors) throughout the world. The software asset management tools (SAMsolutions) provided for Corporate users are also widely implemented, and provide a range of reporting facilities to both ISVs and the end-user organizations to track actual application usage.

Macrovision and FLEXlm are registered trademarks, and GTlicensing, FLEXbill and SAMsolutions are trademarks of Macrovision Corporation.

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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 Macrovisions actual results to differ from anticipated results expressed in such forward-looking statements. Such factors are addressed in Macrovisions filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (available at http://www.sec.gov). Macrovision assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements.

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For more information, contact:
John English
Macrovision Corporation
+1 (408) 969 5468
jenglish@macrovision.com

Simon Mehlman
Macrovision EMEA
+44 (0) 1928 706 325
simon.mehlman@macrovision.co.uk

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