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[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Santa Clara-based Macrovision Corp. has convinced a judge to stop the sale of a widely-distributed DVD cloning product called "DVD X Copy" with a preliminary injunction, issued May 11 but not made public until Thursday.
[/font] [font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Macrovision, which makes a variety of copyright protection software products, claims 321 Studios LLC's various DVD X Copy software products violate its patents on anti-copying software. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] 321 Studios has other lawsuits against it by content providers for its DVD copying software. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif]Macrovision's suit is different. It doesn't deal with the copying of specific material such as movies, but claims patent infringement concerning content protection technologies that are found on most DVD players sold worldwide. [/font] [font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "The vast majority of Hollywood DVDs are protected by software flags that trigger the patented anti-copy methods within DVD players," says Macrovision attorney Robert Becker of Palo Alto-based law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. "When those flags are copied by DVD X Copy, the patented methods are triggered and performed without license from Macrovision." [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] 321 Studios' products threatens the core of Macrovision's business, company CEO Bill Krepick says. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "Because copy protection is our core business, the conduct of those like 321 Studios that facilitate widespread copying is unacceptable," Mr. Krepick says. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Macrovision's technology has been used on more than 2.7 billion video DVDs, 250 million PC games CDs/DVDs and 275 million music CDs, company officials say. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "We are disappointed," says a spokeswoman for 321 Studios of St. Charles, Mo. "We are mainly disappointed the judge did not address any of our legal arguments in his ruling. We plan to appeal." [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] 321 is no stranger to courtrooms. In addition to being sued, it is the plaintiff in an action against nine major motion picture production companies. The software company argues that the movie industry is trying to stop the sale of its copying software. The suit disputes the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/05/17/daily39.html
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[/font] [font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Macrovision, which makes a variety of copyright protection software products, claims 321 Studios LLC's various DVD X Copy software products violate its patents on anti-copying software. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] 321 Studios has other lawsuits against it by content providers for its DVD copying software. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif]Macrovision's suit is different. It doesn't deal with the copying of specific material such as movies, but claims patent infringement concerning content protection technologies that are found on most DVD players sold worldwide. [/font] [font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "The vast majority of Hollywood DVDs are protected by software flags that trigger the patented anti-copy methods within DVD players," says Macrovision attorney Robert Becker of Palo Alto-based law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. "When those flags are copied by DVD X Copy, the patented methods are triggered and performed without license from Macrovision." [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] 321 Studios' products threatens the core of Macrovision's business, company CEO Bill Krepick says. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "Because copy protection is our core business, the conduct of those like 321 Studios that facilitate widespread copying is unacceptable," Mr. Krepick says. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] Macrovision's technology has been used on more than 2.7 billion video DVDs, 250 million PC games CDs/DVDs and 275 million music CDs, company officials say. [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] "We are disappointed," says a spokeswoman for 321 Studios of St. Charles, Mo. "We are mainly disappointed the judge did not address any of our legal arguments in his ruling. We plan to appeal." [/font]
[font=Times New Roman,Times,Serif] 321 is no stranger to courtrooms. In addition to being sued, it is the plaintiff in an action against nine major motion picture production companies. The software company argues that the movie industry is trying to stop the sale of its copying software. The suit disputes the constitutionality of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2004/05/17/daily39.html
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