RightsMarket Bolsters Advisory Group With New Senior Appointments: U.S.
Multimedia Execs Thomas Pomeroy And Barry Sandrew
Calgary, Alberta --
RightsMarket.com Inc., a leader in Digital Rights Management
technology, announces that it has appointed U.S. multimedia
executives Thomas W. Pomeroy and Barry Sandrew to its Advisory
Group. Thomas Pomeroy is Founding Director of SoftBook, an
electronic distribution company featuring the SoftBook
Reader(TM), an award-winning personal information appliance.
Barry Sandrew, Ph.D., is President of Global Media Technology,
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of eSat, Inc., a high-speed
satellite Internet Service Provider.
Mr. Pomeroy will be leveraging his extensive electronic media
expertise and experience to further develop strategic partner
relationships and opportunities for RightsMarket's digital rights
management (DRM) technology.
Barry Sandrew, Ph.D., brings over fifteen years in the U.S.
animation and entertainment industry and will work with major
content and equipment partners to further exploit RightsMarket's
DRM technology in the U.S. entertainment market.
"Tom brings significant information services, multi-media and
publishing experience to RightsMarket. Located in Silicon Valley,
he will be instrumental in helping us develop further strategic
U.S. content relationships with publishing companies, in order to
drive DRM adoption." said Lindsay Moir, founder, president and
chief executive officer of RightsMarket.
President Lindsay Moir continued: "Barry has the film and
television animation industry experience to help create important
business opportunities for RightsMarket. He is the right person
to help develop the strategic content relationships needed to
drive the adoption of our DRM technology in the U.S.
entertainment market."
Thomas W. Pomeroy
Thomas W. Pomeroy is Founding Director of SoftBook Press, an
electronic distribution company incorporated in 1996, featuring
the SoftBook Reader(TM), an award-winning personal information
appliance. He was instrumental in defining and securing
publishing relationships with some of the most respected names in
the information industries, including Simon & Schuster, the New
York Times, McGraw-Hill, Dow Jones and Time-Warner. The company
was acquired by Genstar International in January, 2000. Before
founding SoftBook Press, he was Co-President of ImagiNation
Network, a vertical market on-line "community" ultimately
acquired by America Online. Previous experience includes
developing and executing strategies for a unit of Simon &
Schuster, where he Chief Operating Officer, as well as for
MusicWriter, Activision, Inc., and AMR/Voit.
Barry Sandrew, Ph.D.
Barry Sandrew, Ph.D., is president of Global Media Technology,
Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of eSat, Inc. At GMT, Dr. Sandrew
identifies develops partnerships and content opportunities within
the entertainment, educational, medical and hospitality
industries that capitalize on the wireless (satellite and
microwave) broadband technology of the parent company. In 1986,
Dr. Sandrew founded American Film Technologies where he invented
the technology for colorizing black and white classic feature
films and received patents in computerized animation and digital
special effects for feature film and TV. During six years with
the company, he established a client base that included: Walt
Disney Studios, Warner Brothers Animation, 20th Century Fox,
Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment, Turner Broadcasting
Systems, Republic Pictures, Marvel Entertainment, ABC, NBC, and
other entertainment companies in the US and Europe. In 1993, Dr.
Sandrew co-founded The Lightspan Partnership which attracted the
best entertainment, animation and video game talent in the
industry and in 1997, he became president of GNA Entertainment
Group, where he directed the licensing and distribution of
entertainment content for broadband distribution within the
hospitality industry.
RightsMarket.com is a high technology company established in 1993
to pursue Internet opportunities. Its principal product is
RightsMarket technology, one of the first online solutions for
protecting digital contents on the Internet. RightsMarket
dramatically increases security, reduces distribution costs and
speeds delivery time to the consumer. The technology facilitates
the commercial distribution of digital content by encrypting it,
permitting valid use only, metering its use, and creating a
transaction log for reporting and billing. The technology is
"persistent" in that the digital contents needs to be unlocked
every time it is used. RightsMarket(TM) is a trademark of
RightsMarket.com. For more information about RightsMarket please
visit our website at www.RightsMarket.com.
For further information contact:
Lindsay Moir, President
(403) 571-1835
(403) 571-1191 (Direct)
email: moirl@RightsMarket.com
Rob Solinger, CFO
(403) 571-1839
email: rob@RightsMarket.com
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