OASIS MEMBER NEWS: SealedMedia and Arbortext Offer DRM PublishingSolution

[Beth Ambaruch <bea@arbortext.com>]

SealedMedia and Arbortext Offer DRM Publishing Solution

Digital rights management specialist and leading XML-based software
provider offer solution for digital content management


London, UK, 22 May, 2001 -- SealedMedia, a leading digital rights
management (DRM) company that enables publishers to securely package and
distribute all types of digital content on the Internet, and Arbortext,
the only global provider of XML-based software for single source
publishing to multiple media types, today announced they have entered
into a partnership to provide publishers with a solution to protect and
distribute digital content using XML technology.

Through Arbortext’s open, standards-based software, enterprises are able
to use a Single Source Publishing Architecture[TM] to capture content
from a variety of sources, store and manage that content in an XML
repository, and extract and assemble that content according to
individual needs for publishing to multiple media types: Web, print,
CD-ROM, e-Books and wireless devices.

“SealedMedia is the proven leader in offering content protection through
its web-centric DRM technology.  With the additional capability of our
XML-based Epic software, publishers can now easily build and control
digital content with the confidence that it will be available in a
media-neutral, presentation-neutral format for future publishing
requirements,” comments Nathan Birtle, Arbortext's Vice President of
Sales for Europe.

SealedMedia’s proven and widely deployed DRM technology allows content
owners to seal content in a variety of formats (HTML, PDF, image and
audio formats, etc.) and distribute it digitally to end users with
powerful and flexible license configurations in the knowledge that it
always remains protected.

“Arbortext continues to provide publishers with the latest XML
solutions, enabling them to keep ahead of competitors.  With the
additional SealedMedia functionality, they also have the confidence the
content they are distributing is protected,” said Owen Kilbane,
SealedMedia’s Director of Strategic Alliances.

About SealedMedia
SealedMedia’s content sealing solution enables publishers to increase
revenues using powerful Internet content distribution. SealedMedia
provides robust and persistent protection for multiple types of digital
content, including PDF, HTML, GIF, JPEG, and MP3 audio (Quicktime MOV
will be available in 2001).  Online publishers can improve their
marketing and sales impact with personalised rich-media offerings
through use of SealedMedia’s content sealing and licensing solution.
This enables them to mix and match media, generate licenses in real time
to create new business models and opportunities, and ensures
unauthorised access to content is prevented.

SealedMedia has been selected by leading online content vendors around
the world who sell online books, newsletters, financial research, music
and more in the emerging $100 billion eContent marketplace. SealedMedia'
has sales offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Beaconsfield
UK, Munich, and the Netherlands.

About Arbortext
Arbortext is the only global provider of XML-based software to publish
information to multiple media types – Web, print, CD-ROM, wireless –
from a single source of content. Shipping since 1991, Arbortext’s
standards-based software supports technical publishing, reference
publishing and catalogue publishing applications that enable enterprises
to provide more accurate, more complete, more timely, more consistent
and more usable information on all media. Arbortext’s software is
currently deployed at over 300 of the Global 2000 companies, including
AT&T, Audi, Boeing, British Aerospace, Caterpillar, DaimlerChrysler,
Ericsson Telecom, Ford, GM, IBM, Lucent, Nokia, Nortel Networks, Qantas,
Ricoh, Sun Microsystems, International Thomson Publishing, United
Airlines, Volkswagen, Volvo and West Group. Arbortext is a founding
member and active participant in the XML Activity of the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Arbortext
has offices around the world.  For more information please visit
http://www.arbortext.com.

Contacts:

For SealedMedia:

Su Kent                         Martin Brindley/Natalie Johnson
SealedMedia                     MCC International Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 1494 687200        Tel: + 44 (0) 1962 888100
info@sealedmedia.com            martin.brindley@mccint.com


For Arbortext:

PG Bartlett                     Angela von Ruden
Arbortext, Inc.                 Phase Two Strategies
Tel: +1 734.327.6819            Tel: +1 212.530.7553
pgb@arbortext.com               avonruden@p2pr.com