INFO/NYT: Joint Venture Formed to Develop and Market Copyright Protection Software

From: David P. Dillard <jwne[_at_]astro.ocis.temple.edu>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 06:54:54 -0400 (EDT)

        REGARDING A NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE WITH LINK AND EXCERPT BELOW:      CopyGuard, Inc. will continue developing and will market copyright protection software that began development by Xerox, one of the joint venture partners in this operation. The other joint venture partner is Microsoft.

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Source: New York Times (NYT)
Author: LAWRENCE M. FISHER
Title: Xerox and Microsoft Create Digital Safeguard Company Source Date: April 28, 2000
Resource Type: News Article
Description/Keywords: Xerox Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, ContentGuard Inc., Joint Ventures, Intellectual Property, Copyright, Protection, Software, New Product, New Technologies, Music Recordings, Video Recordings, Electronic Books
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April 28, 2000

     Xerox and Microsoft Create Digital Safeguard Company
     By LAWRENCE M. FISHER

     SAN FRANCISCO, April 27 -- The Xerox Corporation and the 

Microsoft Corporation said today that they would create a company to produce and market software that protects copyrighted materials like books, music and video distributed over the Internet.

     The new company, ContentGuard Inc., is being spun out of Xerox and is based on technology developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. A public offering is anticipated. Microsoft will own a minority stake in ContentGuard, which will have headquarters in McLean, Va., and operations in Palo Alto, Calif., and El Segundo, Calif.

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http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/biztech/articles/28xerox.html Received on Fri Apr 28 2000 - 10:57:40 GMT