FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

MEDIA CONTACT: 
Christopher Simmons 
NEOTROPE 
PH: 310-373-4856 
EMAIL: artpr@neotrope.com


Of interest to editors and journalists covering: 
intellectual property, digital rights management (DRM), digital imaging, photography, Internet, Web Development, legal concerns for internet business, advertising/marketing, content authoring, and public relations.


   Headline: 
ARTISTSCOPE ANNOUNCES NEW VERSIONS OF SECURE IMAGE PRO FOR MAC-OS AND WINDOWS, PROVIDING ROBUST DRM PROTECTION FROM UNAUTHORIZED IMAGE COPYING ONLINE 

   Alt Headline:
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THEFT AT ALL TIME HIGH ONLINE; SOFTWARE COMPANY RELEASES UPDATED SOFTWARE TO PROTECT INTERNET IMAGE CONTENT FROM COPYING


LOS ANGELES, CA -- (PRnetwire) -- September 11, 2001 -- Artistscope, the premier international digital rights management (DRM) solutions provider for visual content, today announced they are making available for download updated versions of Secure Image Pro for both the Macintosh OS and for Windows. In addition to improved compatibility with Java under MacOS the new version, 3.0.2, is now compatible with Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000 and ME. Batch saving has been improved from support for 100 or more images at once, to batch saving of more than 3,000 images on a single click, making it ideal for galleries and art sites with a large number of images to encrypt.


About Secure Image Pro 3.0.2 -- 

Secure Image Pro is an affordable cross-platform solution for protecting images from the most common methods of content theft: mouse-click saving, and linking directly to and/or copying directly from the image URL found in the HTML. Secure Image Pro is available for both MacOS and Windows platforms.

As well as the primary features such as prevention of direct saving, etc., each registered site has a unique key so that the image may only be seen from the protected site. The images cannot be viewed from anywhere else and are safe on your server. They are not obtainable by direct or indirect means... only by viewing the image from your page and from within the applet viewer. Spiders, "grab applications" and programs such as Xenu and Teleport Pro (that search a site and provide a report of all the linked content) cannot locate the Java and data files associated with the protected images.

Secure Image Pro will enable a preview of your images in a window for selection, allow manipulation of size, screen messages, borders and display style, and then save the whole batch with a single click of a button, making it ideal for galleries and large product catalogues. Secure Image Pro will encrypt thousands of images with just one click. With the multi-register feature the image can be locked to either a single domain or used on all your sites in the registry list. The image cannot be viewed online unless from your own -- or an authorized -- Web site.

Encryption of images is done from your current "Web ready" JPG and GIF files but does not add any additional level of compression, meaning the image is not adversely affected during the conversion and encryption process. This allows the digital rights management system to integrate well with existing content development work-flows and popular applications like Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks.

Screen shot of Secure Image Pro 3.0.2:
http://www.artistscope.net/secure_image/ref/converter500-mac.gif

Additional Digital Rights Management (DRM)
features of Secure Image Pro 3.0.2:

** Protection from Adobe Acrobat 5 "open web page" copy functions.
** Protection from "right Mouse click" and MSoft Explorer page saving. 
** Protection from bandwidth theft and unauthorized linking. 
** Encryption to protect cached images in the Temporary Internet Folder. 
** Locking of your image to a designated web site. 
** An effective means of labelling the artwork for status bar display. 
** An announcement of the Artist and Title while being downloaded. 
** Add an image frame border with desired thickness and color. 
** Improved platform support for Windows and Mac users. 
** Mouse over action for swapping images (print protection). 
** File import by the folder. 
** Batch saving of more than 3,000 images on a single command. 
** Multi-user register for managing several domains. 
** Automatic scaling of original image size.



PRODUCT PRICING

Secure Image Pro 3.0.2 -- MacOS / WindowsOS -- $165.00 US*

*Additional domain name licenses $65 each

Trial downloads which are fully functional for limited time, are available from:
http://www.artistscope.net/secure_image/download.htm



ABOUT ARTISTSCOPE

Artistscope is an artist-oriented company founded in 1997 specifically to address the need for robust image protection systems designed to be used by artists and photographers to protect their visual content online. The company is headquartered in Bribie Island, Australia, with representatives worldwide and free download centers in each major continent for the distribution of downloads and plug-ins for their client's visitors. Artistscope were the pioneers of image protection and the first company to develop and distribute commercial solutions for online use.

For more information: http://www.Artistscope.net

Artistscope president, William Kent, is available for media interviews on the subject of DRM and intellectual property rights.


NOTE TO EDITORS

A high-resolution screen shot from Secure Image Pro 3.0.2 suitable for print can be found here:
-- RGB-JPEG (204k) ftp://www.neotrope.com/artistscope/secureimage302-ss.jpg
-- CMYK-TIF (2MB) ftp://www.neotrope.com/artistscope/secureimage302-ss.tif

Review copies of Artistscope products available on request.


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