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
aquaMobile S.L. is a mobile value-added services provider founded by a group of reputable executives of some of the leading mobile content and services multinationals, consulting firms and media corporations. Based in Madrid, Spain, it plans to quickly expand to other European countries. aquaMobile is already working with some of the largest corporations to develop state-of-the-art mobile solutions that will make access to content and information from mobile handsets a lot easier and intuitive. www.aquamobile.es

Civolution
Formed in October 2008, Civolution is a spin-off from Philips Electronics combining synergies from Philips Content Identification, Teletrax and Thomson STS. Civolution is a leading technology and services provider for identifying, managing and monetizing media content. Civolution provides cutting-edge watermarking and fingerprinting technology solutions for radio and television audience measurement and forensic tracking of media assets in pre-release, digital cinema, payTV and online delivery. Through its broadcast and internet services, Civolution offers global television broadcast intelligence, internet tracking and monetization solutions. Civolution helps studios, news organizations, broadcasters, network operators, syndicated TV companies, sports rights holders, advertisers and corporate communicators, control their content and generate new revenue streams. News from Civolution is located here.

DataMark
DataMark Technologies Pte Ltd (DataMark), incorporated in Singapore, is a technology provider of patented digital watermarking technologies and solutions for the imaging world. Its StegMark suite of imaging solutions are developed to address copyright and fingerprinting issues, creating unique digital identities in all forms of digital media. These watermarks embedded into the media offer copyright protection, fingerprinting capabilities as well as authenticity assurance to the digital assets. In addition, these watermarks are imperceptible to the human eye and can only be detected through the use of our algorithms. At DataMark, we understand the value and importance of our client's digital assets and constantly strive to develop innovative technology to secure their digital rights. DataMark is a subsidiary of ST Electronics (Info-Security) Pte Ltd.

Digimarc Corporation
Digimarc is a leading innovator and technology provider. We enable new digital media distribution models and solutions for media identification and management, in addition to enhancing traffic safety and national security, and combating fraud, counterfeiting and piracy.

Digimarc's vision is to enrich lives by opening up a new channel of communication in all forms of media and objects, enabling computers and digital devices to "see, hear and understand" the world around them more as people do. The end result is that consumers, corporations and governments alike can now have access to content when, where and how they want it.

Digimarc has an extensive intellectual property portfolio, with more than 450 issued U.S. patents in digital watermarking, personal identification and related technologies.

Please go to www.digimarc.com for more company information.

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
Founded in 1999 by leaders in the university watermarking lab, MarkAny is on the forefront of the digital security industry, enabling client to prevent the misuse, modification, loss or theft of intellectual property and sensitive information.

MarkAny offers a portfolio of digital security, authentication and copyright protection solutions that it sells into the enterprise and government markets for internal security, secure document delivery and online certificate printing applications. MarkAny holds more than 200 patented applications world-wide, and offer digital right management and watermark products, and its professional service to assist the integration of its solutions and implementation of client business model.

The company has provided digital security solutions to more than 700 firms and governmental bodies throughout the world. For more information, visit www.markany.com

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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.

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