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Macrovision and Motorola Propose Standards for Software Licensing Implementations; Companies Co-author Best Practices White Paper on Implementing and Deploying Software Licenses.


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, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 23, 2004

Macrovision(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN MVSN Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza Nazionale (Italy) ), the world's leading provider of software licensing technologies, today announced that Motorola and Macrovision have collaborated on a white paper outlining the industry's first licensing implementation guidelines. The white paper, "Improving Customer Satisfaction by Improving Licensing Implementation Quality," defines deployment standards for both software publishers and corporate enterprises.

"Motorola is at the forefront of major licensing initiatives such as centralized procurement and global software licensing management," said Dan Griffith, manager of comprehensive software asset management at Motorola and white paper co-author. "As a founding member of CELUG CELUG Centralized Enterprise Licensing User Group , the centralized licensing user group that includes companies such as Intel, Honeywell, Agilent, Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) is an aerospace and defense conglomerate that is the result of the 1994 purchase of Grumman by Northrop. The company is the third largest defense contractor for the U.S. , AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips.  and Ford, we believe it is important to share our knowledge and best practices experience. This joint initiative with Macrovision offers detailed recommendations that address procurement, reporting and dependency issues that are widely encountered within today's enterprise."

"At SoftSummit 2003, the software industry's conference on pricing, purchasing and licensing, executives from both sides of the table wanted help improving the quality of their licensing implementations. We listened and provided the guidelines they were looking for Looking for

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," said Mark Horler, director, global consulting services at Macrovision. "Working closely with Motorola, a long-term Macrovision customer, we've developed a clear and concise licensing policy that makes the process easier and adds value for both vendors and customers."

The white paper covers an overview of the most common software licensing issues faced by corporate enterprises and provides solid guidelines on topics such as methodology, reporting, naming conventions, security and versioning, that will result in high-quality implementations and greater customer satisfaction.

For More Information

To obtain a copy of the white paper, visit the Macrovision web site at: www.macrovision.com/motorolaWP or call 888-755-0861.

About Macrovision

Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq:MVSN) is the market leader in electronic licensing, copy protection, and digital rights management ("DRM (1) (Digital Radio Mondiale) A digital audio broadcasting (DAB) system for AM radio in Europe. See HD Radio.

(2) (Digital Rights M
") technologies. Analysts recognize Macrovision as the clear market leader, and it's estimated that the company sells more software-based licensing solutions than all its competitors combined. Macrovision FLEXnet, the world's first universal licensing platform, enables customers to easily price, package and protect their software. More than 3000 software publishers have shipped FLEXenabled(TM) software, and hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies use Macrovision technologies to better manage their software licenses In computing, software that is copyrighted and licensed under a software license is done under a variety of licensing schemes. For end-users there are proprietary licenses and there are free software licenses, and there are proprietary Within these schemes are further classifications. . The company holds over 700 copy protection, software licensing and DRM patents worldwide and has been ranked by Business 2.0 as one of the top 100 Tech Companies for two consecutive years. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , Macrovision has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong and Seoul. More information about the Macrovision can be found at www.macrovision.com.

This press release may contain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  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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