Members
The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) is an international alliance of industry leading organizations that deliver valuable digital watermarking solutions to a broad range of customers and markets around the world.
AquaMobile
www.aquamobile.es
Civolution
Civolution was formed in October 2008 as a spin-out of Royal Philips Electronics and is a world leading technology and services provider for identifying, managing and monetizing media content. Civolution offers cutting edge watermarking and fingerprinting technology solutions for forensic tracking of media assets in pre-release, digital cinema, payTV and online. Through its Teletrax and Mediahedge service portfolio Civolution offers world-class broadcast and internet tracking services to help motion picture studios, news organizations, network and syndicated TV programmers, brand marketers, corporate communicators, and advertising and public relations agencies, control their content and unlock new revenue streams. Headquartered in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Civolution has offices in London, New York and Los Angeles. News from Civolution is located here.
DataMark Technologies
DataMark Technologies Pte Ltd (DMT), a company based in Singapore and a subsidiary of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd, is a pioneer provider of patented digital watermarking solutions. DMT employs the state-of-art infocomm security technologies and patented digital watermarking technologies to address copyright and authentication issues pertaining to digital imaging. For more information, please visit www.datamark.com.sg
Digimarc Corporation
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC), based in Beaverton, Oregon, is a leading supplier of secure identity and media management solutions. Digimarc provides products and services that enable the annual production of more than 60 million personal identification documents, including two-thirds of U.S. driver licenses and IDs for more than 25 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 more than 360 issued U.S. patents with more than 7,500 claims, and more than 500 pending patent applications in digital watermarking, personal identification and related technologies.
The company is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, with other U.S. offices in Burlington, Massachusetts; Fort Wayne, Indiana; and the Washington DC area; and international offices in London and Mexico. Please go to www.digimarc.com for more company information.
GCS Research
GCS Research LLC is a geospatial information technology company headquartered in Missoula, Montana. We deliver integrated products and services that allow our clients to organize, protect, visualize, analyze, and share their geospatial information across distributed networks. We specialize in custom .NET geospatial applications and interoperable Web services that harness the power of location intelligence and deliver this information across the enterprise. GCS Research provides award-winning geospatial solutions designed to support connected workflows and powerful, client experiences.
Gibson
www.gibson.com
ISAN
The International Standard Audiovisual Number (ISAN) is managed and run by ISAN-IA (ISAN International Agency), a non-profit organization, based in Geneva and founded in 2003 by AGICOA, CISAC and FIAPF. As a service organization, its mission is to implement ISAN throughout the world by providing and maintaining the ISAN system, appointing and supporting the network of Registration Agencies, and promoting their activities to the audiovisual industry.
ISAN is a voluntary numbering system to identify any kind of audiovisual works throughout their entire lifecycle from conception, production, distribution, and consumption. ISAN is recommended or required as the audiovisual identifier of choice for producers, studios, broadcasters, Internet media providers, and videogame publishers who need to encode, track, and distribute video in a variety of formats. It provides a unique, internationally recognized, and permanent reference number for each audiovisual work and related versions registered in the ISAN system.
MarkAny
MarkAny, based in Seoul, South Korea, was established in 1999 as an advanced leader of preventing document leakage and forgery, illegal distribution of digital content and watermarking products. MarkAny holds more than 200 patented applications world-wide, with products and applications that have been deployed extensively worldwide for enhancing the security and value of content. The company has provided DRM solutions to more than 500 firms and governmental bodies throughout the world. For more information, visit www.markany.com
MediaGrid
MediaGrid, based in Tokyo, Japan, was established in 2003 with a view to expanding the e-commerce service business by revenue-sharing model, and to commercialize a new business model used by consumers, which applies digital watermark technology. Nowadays the company is active with a focus on various mobile applications in the fields of Data Hiding, E-Commerce and other businesses by providing watermarking solutions enabling cross-media marketing and securing valuable digital contents, etc.
MSI
MSI provides forensic audio watermarking and copy protection, "Double Dip" to protect audio files, CDs and DVDs from unauthorized copying. MSI Copy Control enables Record Labels to protect the copyright of their signed artists against piracy right from the recording studio and throughout promotion and distribution. An easy to use "wizard" program enables new and experienced users to operate the MSI system within their own offices with access to a global look up database, and MSI can additionally provide an end to end duplication, copy control and distribution service from their offices in LA, NY and London. MSI is fully compliant with Rimage duplicating systems for high volume production.
Nielsen
www.nielsen.com
Streamburst
www.streamburst.co.uk
Thomson
Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TMS) is the worldwide leader in video solutions for the Communication, Media & Entertainment (CME) industries.
Thomson offers some of the most advanced solutions in content tracking and security including secure content delivery, forensic marking and broadcast and web content monitoring. Thanks to world-class research and thorough understanding of content workflows, Thomson comprehensively addresses the needs of content businesses with a large portfolio of services and solutions. For more information: http://contentsecurity.thomson.net
Université Catholique de Louvain
www.uclouvain.be
Verance
Verance is a leading developer of technologies and solutions that track, manage, and enhance the use of media content. Verance holds a significant portfolio of proven audio watermarking technologies that have been deployed globally in a variety of business and consumer application areas. These applications include the Verance Content Management System, which is the worldwide industry standard watermark for copyright protection of recorded music and film and has been deployed in premium entertainment content and consumer electronics devices worldwide. Additional information about Verance and its technologies, products and services can be found at www.Verance.com
Verimatrix
Verimatrix sets the standard for software-based content security and revenue enhancement technologies in pay-TV networks, with a global customer base of telecommunications providers. The Verimatrix Video Content Authority System™ (VCAS) offers a suite of next-generation technologies that protect content and enhance revenue streams, while combating digital piracy wherever it occurs within the distribution chain. VCAS technologies include the patent-pending VideoMark™ — the industry's first secure and invisible content tracking solution that enables forensic, user-specific marking of video at each PC or STB client in a pay-TV system. Verimatrix's customers benefit with most favorable access to premium content, enabling the richest, most versatile viewing experience for their digital video subscribers. For more information, please visit www.verimatrix.com
Widevine
Widevine is the leading provider of downloadable content protection and forensic solutions for IP video operators worldwide. Widevine enables telco, internet, mobile, cable and satellite service operators to generate new revenue opportunities through the secure distribution, identification and tracking of multimedia content.
Utilizing a combination of downloadable conditional access, digital rights management and digital copy protection techniques, Widevine enables operators to acquire and distribute premium studio content and, through unique patented technologies, reduce video related capital and operational expenditures. An innovator in the industry and holder of six patents, Widevine invented the renewable client security with the Cypher Virtual SmartCard — which today protects more IP video set top boxes, personal video recorders, PCs, portable media players and mobile devices in the industry than any other vendor.
Widevine is a privately held corporation headquartered in Seattle, WA, funded by Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO), Charter Ventures, Constellation Ventures, Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd (DNP), PaceSetter Capital Group, Phoenix Partners, TELUS (NYSE: TU) and VantagePoint Venture Partners. For more information, visit www.widevine.com
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