MEDIA ADVISORY: Digital Watermarking Alliance Hosts Sept. 26 Event in Washington DC to Focus on Content Identification, Enabling Media Commerce

Chair of Senate Republican High Tech Task Force to deliver opening remarks

WHO:
Reed Stager, Digital Watermarking Alliance, Chairman
Rob Schumann, Digital Watermarking Alliance, Board Member

WHAT:
The proliferation of digital media content and strong consumer demand has created many new distribution models for the media and entertainment industry. This has naturally elicited concerns about how content should be protected while meeting demand. Attendees will learn how movie, music and television content can be identified and managed using digital watermarking across any device from anywhere at anytime, and will hear about new approaches to identifying and managing content in HDTV, IPTV, Digital Cinema and P2P network environments.

WHEN:
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Q&A included)
Catered Lunch Provided

WHERE:
Senate Caucus Room (SR-385), Russell Building

MEMBERS & STAFF RSVP:
Please RSVP to 202-585-0249 or email dwa@itstrategies.com

MEDIA:
Contact Anna Hughes at 202-585-0230 or hughes@itstrategies.com

ABOUT:
The Digital Watermarking Alliance (DWA) is an international alliance of industry leading companies that deliver valuable digital watermarking technology and solutions to a broad range of customers and markets around the world. Member companies include Cinea, Inc., a Dolby company (NYSE:DLB), DataMark Technologies, Digimarc (Nasdaq: DMRC), GCS Research, Gibson, ISAN-IA, Jura, MarkAny, MediaGrid, Media Science International, Philips Electronics, Signum, Teletrax (Nasdaq: MDLK), Thomson (Euronext 18453; NYSE: TMS), Verance, Verimatrix, and Widevine Technologies. For more information, please visit www.digitalwatermarkingalliance.org