Beaverton, Ore. - Digital watermarking technology developer Digimarc (NASD: DMRC) said on Monday that it has licensed its patents to Media Sciences International (MSI), which provides forensic tracking services for secure distribution of promotional content to the major record labels. MSI's technology is currently used on over 5 million major label tracks to identify and track leaks of promotional, pre-release music.

Billerica, Mass. - Digimarc (NASD: DMRC), an Oregon-based provider of digital watermarking and other technologies, announced on Monday that it will sell its ID Systems business to L-1 Identity Solutions, for about $250 million.

New York - Ratings provider The Nielsen Company announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with digital watermarking developer Digimarc (NASD: DMRC), to launch a new service that will track online video distributed by media companies, social networks, peer-to-peer services and user-generated content sites.

Beaverton, Ore. - Digital watermarking developer Digimarc announced on Thursday that it has been awarded a new U.S. patent (No. 7,171,016), that describers technology it says can identify music, images or video on multiple Internet sites. Applications include providing reports to rights holders to enable reasonable accounting for the distributed content. "Much of the repurposed content on YouTube, for example, contains copyrighted entertainment," said Digimarc chairman and CEO Bruce Davis. "If social networking sites implemented software to check each stream, they could identify copyrighted subject matter, create a report, negotiate compensation for the value chain and sell targeted advertising for related goods and services."

Los Angeles - The Digital Watermarking Alliance, a trade group of companies with commercial digital watermarking technologies that can identify and protect copyrighted works, announced on Thursday that Widevine Technologies has joined the organization. Seattle-based Widevine provides forensic watermarking technologies for telco, Internet, mobile, cable and satellite providers. Formed in September 2006, the Digital Watermarking Alliance's membership also includes Cinea, Digimarc, Philips, Thomson, Verance and Verimatrix.

Beaverton, Ore. - Digimarc, a developer of digital watermarking technology used to identify and protect copyrighted works, announced on Wednesday that USA Video Interactive (USVO) has signed a multi-year patent license agreement. Under the deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, USVO can use Digimarc technology in its forensic tracking applications for commercially-available video, pre-release video and home marketing screening video. USVO said a major Hollywood studio recently signed on to use its products.