Hollywood studios to create technology company to fight piracy
20/9/2005 11:38
Six major movie studios in Hollywood will create a nonprofit research and
development company to protect their films against electronic theft, the Motion
Picture Association of America announced on Monday.
The company, which is
expected to create new technologies to protect the distribution of films
particularly on the Internet, will be called Motion Picture Laboratories, or
Movielabs, according to the association.
"Movielabs is a smart investment
that will help the entertainment industry adopt new means of fighting piracy and
protecting copyrights," said Dan Glickman, the association's president and chief
executive officer.
The founding owners of the company include Walt Disney
Pictures and Television, Paramount Pictures Corp, 20th Century Fox Film Corp,
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal City Studios, and Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc.
The association helped develop the company which will have
offices and staff in Los Angeles and will act as an outside management and
technology consultant to the new venture, according to the film industry
association.
"There are thousands of new concepts floating around the
high-tech community about how to develop tools to fight piracy," Glickman said.
"Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major
studios and other motion pictures producers and distributors money in the
future."
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