AudioSoft Chooses InterTrustÆ For Its Digital Rights Management Technology

AudioSoft To Develop MetaTrustô Data Center To Support Its Copyrighted Management System

5-Apr-00

InterTrustÆ Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: ITRU), the MetaTrust Utilityô, and AudioSoft, the worldwide leader in Internet-based digital copyright management for the music industry, announced a strategic partnership where AudioSoft has licensed InterTrust's digital rights management (DRM) technology to enhance its copyright collection and reporting services. AudioSoft will be able to promote its copyright compliance solution to InterTrust's MetaTrustô Partners. InterTrust's general-purpose DRM will provide AudioSoft access to InterTrust's secure technology platform to collect highly specific music copyright usage and royalty information. Through licensing InterTrust DRM, AudioSoft can package necessary worldwide copyright information and associated rules in secure DigiBoxÆ containers, allowing AudioSoft to further automate its online copyright management system. This agreement is an important step toward delivering a comprehensive rights management system for music. ""Becoming a MetaTrust usage clearing partner will allow us to provide copyright collection services to a wider array of online music providers, including existing and future MetaTrust-Certifiedô applications and services,"" said Gary Ludlow, Vice President and General Manager of the Americas, AudioSoft, Inc. ""We are pleased to be working with InterTrust DRM to provide a comprehensive offering to ensure the proper accounting of copyrights generated by the use of music on the Internet. We also believe that AudioSoft's copyright solutions can provide great value to rights holders and other InterTrust partners participating in the MetaTrust platform."" ""Capturing and reporting copyright information is a complex task and we believe that AudioSoft has the global market expertise and systems,"" said Ed Fish, Executive Vice President and Chief Business Officer, InterTrust Technologies Corporation. ""Copyright information is one of the many rights issues that all participants - including authors, composers, publishers, and producers - face in the music industry. Integrated with InterTrust's DRM commerce platform, we believe AudioSoft's copyright management will enhance other DRM-enabled rights, such as business offers and content promotions, and enable today's popular artists to take advantage of the Internet and provide consumers with more choices."" AudioSoft Copyright Management The AudioSoft copyright and data reporting system is a sophisticated music usage monitoring system for the Internet. The system captures, organizes and delivers information from content distributors and refines it into usable databases for music industry organizations. Tracking both performing rights and mechanical rights, it provides rights owners with detailed and customizable reports on music consumption by territory. The AudioSoft architecture is designed to be audio file format agnostic and to be integrated with all major content distribution platforms. The AudioSoft copyright & data reporting system supports the Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) and other industry standards. InterTrust Digital Rights Management Digital rights management (DRM) technologies protect and manage rights and interests in digital information. InterTrust's DRM platform provides a common foundation for distributed e-commerce digital information and event management. InterTrust DRM is enhanced by its use in the MetaTrust Utility, a non-discriminatory, policy neutral, global environment for digital commerce. The MetaTrust Utility enables a digital commerce platform that support multiple formats and content types and leverages trusted components through its OpenRights Initiative that should speed applications and services to market. In the content industry, InterTrust DRM and the MetaTrust Utility allow authors, publishers, enterprises, governments, users and others to specify, as appropriate, rules regarding the use of digital information, and the consequences resulting from such use. InterTrust technology is designed to protect digital information, apply rules persistently after information is distributed, and automate many e-commerce processes related to content use. InterTrust's DRM platform is general purpose and manages most media and content types, including music, publications, business information, video, games, software and images.About AudioSoft AudioSoft is the worldwide leader in global copyright management for music on the Internet, helping to assure accurate royalty redistribution to music copyright holders. The company's copyright and data reporting system captures, organizes and delivers information about music usage on the Internet. A trusted third-party information source, AudioSoft provides accurate, real-time feedback and customized reports for labels, copyright collection societies, online music retailers and audio webcasters to automate the management of copyrights generated on the Internet and provide market feedback and analysis. The company's data gathering architecture is designed to be compatible with all popular digital music file formats and major industry platforms. Founded in 1996, with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California and European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, AudioSoft is a respected international authority on digital music rights. Additional information about the company may be obtained on its Web site at http://www.audiosoft.com.InterTrust Technologies Corporation InterTrust Technologies Corporation is a leading developer of distributed digital rights management (DRM) technology. InterTrust has developed a general-purpose DRM platform that serves as a foundation for providers of digital information, technology, and commerce services. InterTrust licenses its DRM platform as software and tools to partners. Collectively, these partners intend to offer digital commerce services and applications that form a global commerce system branded as the ""MetaTrust Utility."" InterTrust serves as the neutral administrator of the MetaTrust environment.

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