Implementation of Multiple Innovative Business Models including Superdistribution with Major Label Content

Hamburg, Germany, and Stockholm, Sweden, February 14, 2005 – CoreMedia today announced that InProdicon, Scandinavia’s leading digital content distributor, has chosen CoreMedia Content Technology for CMS and DRM in its mobile music offering. By implementing CoreMedia, InProdicon is able to support innovative business models such as superdistribution based on the Open Mobile Alliance’s digital rights management (DRM) standard.

InProdicon owners have extensive experience in music retail and have sold over 500 million music tracks over the past two decades from Sony, Warner, BMG, EMI and Universal as well as several local record companies, InProdicon – the name stands for Independent Provider of Digital Content – is one of the most successful digital content resellers in Europe. Acting as a wholesaler for leading Nordic Internet portals, music stores, network providers and device manufacturers, the company has launched 13 download shops with a repertoire of over 300,000 items so far and plans to launch more than 30 shops throughout Europe and the USA over the coming months. InProdicon will launch its CoreMedia-supported mobile content services with the distribution of original ring tones, full music tracks and video clips and will expand to movies, audio books and other media types in the near future.

With CoreMedia’s Content Technology including its content and rights management solution, InProdicon enables music labels and other content owners to choose the level of protection they want for their content. Ranging from lightweight protection based on Forward-Lock and Combined Delivery, to the encrypted form of Separate Delivery using the Open Mobile Alliance’s OMA v1.0 standard, to the trusted and secure mechanisms of OMA v2.0.

Using the CoreMedia system, InProdicon is able to expand its music service to include the following:

In return, consumers are now able to back up purchased content, to use their content on different devices, and to securely share it with families and friends.

“We chose CoreMedia for several reasons, but the decisive factor was the fact that CoreMedia’s DRM system is fully interoperable with a broad range of consumer end devices, including PC’s, set top boxes, and handsets from manufacturers such as LG, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Sharp, Siemens, and Sony Ericsson,” said David Hudert – Senior Vice President and CTO at InProdicon.

“We are thrilled that InProdicon chose our solution for its wireless music offering,” said Sören Stamer, founder and CEO of CoreMedia. “By deploying our system, InProdicon is able to offer its service through multiple channels, making it the ideal platform for the music and other content industries to expand their offerings to reach more customers.”

“For Warner Music it has been a natural to drive the process for a legal Nordic digital download platform,” said Jonas Siljemark, CEO at Warner Music. “The fact that InProdicon chose a solution that is based on OMA’s successful open DRM standard reinforced our decision to provide premium content to the music offering.”

About InProdicon

InProdicon is the leading provider of digital content in the Nordic region. Providing content management including hosting, rendering and multiple DRM methods, InProdicon systems support packaging and delivery to a wide range of devices in the home and on the move.

InProdicon hosts licensed content from most major entertainment companies, publishing companies and independent record companies. Since the first services were launched in June 2004, InProdicon has grown to include 13 digital retailers and expects to expand to more than 30 retailers in Europe and USA before year end 2005. InProdicon owners include members from retail, live and digital entertainment including Mr Music, the largest retailer of subscription music in the Nordic region, Rockitz, enabling live music in USA since 1984 and mobile music for major record companies in Europe since 1999 and Robert Gustavsson who led expansion of the world’s largest free newspaper, Metro.

InProdicon solution partners and retailers include: Schibstedt-Aftonbladet, AirCall, Bonnier, Brightpoint, CoreMedia, Creative, EMI Music, IBM, Jyllands-Posten, Microsoft, Musicbrigade, MusicTrace, The Phone House, Qtek, QXL, Sound Pollution, Sony BMG, Tele2/Zoomobile, TV2-Norway, TV4-Sweden, Warner Music.

CoreMedia – The Content Technology Experts

CoreMedia AG is a leading provider of state-of-the-art standard software for content management systems (CMS), multi-channel delivery and digital rights management (DRM), and is specialized on the high-end market for demanding content technology.

Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, CoreMedia employs over 120 employees and maintains a global network of implementation partners that includes 500 professional consultants. CoreMedia combines the innovative power of a university spin-off with the sustainability of a founder-operated business and the stability of Deutsche Telekom as main shareholder.

With over 1,000 sold licenses, CoreMedia has been recognized by Deloitte the fastest-growing software company in Germany, and has been given the A.T. Kearney prize for the most innovative company in Germany.

Leading portal operators and enterprises in all industries trust CoreMedia CMS for high-quality ser-vice and integrated information management. Over 100 companies in 20 countries within the telecommunications, media, industrial and financial sectors have successfully employed CoreMedia’s technology, among them industry leaders such as Bertelsmann, Continental, Deutsche Telekom, Debitel, GMX, O2, EPCOS, NEC/Mitsubishi, Nokia, SEAT, T-Mobile, T-Online, RWE, Vodafone, Wincor Nixdorf, plus more than forty public-sector organizations.

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