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6/26/00 - RightsMarket and Ansyr Technology Bring Powerful Digital Rights RIGHTSMARKET.COM INC ("RTS-V") - RightsMarket and Ansyr Technology Bring Powerful Digital Rights - Management to Hand Held Devices RightsMarket Inc. and Ansyr Technology, of Bellevue, Washington, announced a strategic relationship to deliver a digital rights management (DRM) software for Windows-powered handheld devices. The combination of RightsMarket's DRM solution and Ansyr's Primer PDF reader means that corporate and commercial content owners will be able to seamlessly enforce digital rights for materials used on handheld computers and Internet appliances. RightsMarket's flagship product RightsPublish provides a complete solution for digital rights management (DRM), offering publishers and content owners the opportunity to substantially enhance current revenue streams by adding a new digital channel to existing avenues of distribution. RightsPublish allows publishers and content owners to retain complete control of their intellectual property while expanding the range of options that have traditionally governed consumer interactions with printed material. Fully supporting Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), RightsPublish enables digital content to be sold through new flexible retail models such as partial consumption (try before you buy, view only, view and print, etc.) pay per use, expiration, and subscription. Ansyr Technology's Primer(TM) is the first product to provide PDF viewing and navigation capabilities on Windows-powered palm-size and handheld computers. Primer(TM) enables users to view, navigate, and print documents formatted in Adobe's PDF Format, a worldwide standard for electronic document distribution. With Primer(TM), any PDF file, including blueprints, large documents, manuals, forms, images, and spreadsheets can be easily transferred to handheld devices. With Ansyr's groundbreaking software, mobile professionals have access to vital information-whatever they need-anywhere they go. "Through this strategic alliance, RightsMarket and Ansyr Technology are providing content owners with the ability to broadly, securely, and reliably distribute digital content beyond the desktop to handheld computers. Our ability to persistently protect content on multiple viewing devices ensures copyright integrity for content owners and increased flexibility for consumers," says Jim Godsell, VP Business Development of RightsMarket. "Combining Ansyr's powerful document viewer for Windows-powered handheld devices with RightsMarket's end-to-end digital rights management system provides a powerful solution for both corporate and retail environments. We look forward to offering our complementary combination of services to a new world of mobile professionals," adds Kevin Omiliak, VP Business Development of Ansyr Technology. The partners will announce further details during summer 2000. Initial availability of the products is planned for Q4 2000. About Ansyr Technology Ansyr Technology Corporation develops solutions to enhance the usefulness of handheld computers, mobile devices and information appliances by enabling access and use of mission-critical information. Ansyr Technology currently offers a PDF reader for handheld computers and Internet appliances that run on the Windows* CE operating system. Ansyr is a member of the Palm* Solution Provider Program, Adobe Solutions Network and is a Windows-powered Pocket PC Launch Partner. For more information, call Kelly Leso at 206-625-0252 or visit the Ansyr Web site at www.ansyr.com . About RightsMarket RightsMarket Inc. is a publicly traded, high technology company (CDNX-RTS) specializing in digital rights management. Its principal product, RightsPublish, is one of the first online solutions for protecting digital content 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 the property, authenticating users, enforcing the terms and conditions of use, and creating a transaction log for reporting and billing. The technology is "persistent" in that the digital content must be unlocked each time it is accessed by the user. RightsMarket is a trademark of RightsMarket Inc. For more information about RightsMarket please visit our website at www.RightsMarket.com TEL: (403) 571-1839 Rob Solinger, CFO RightsMarket.com Inc. E-mail: rob@RightsMarket.com TEL: (403) 668-5032 Jim Godsell, Vice-President RightsMarket.com Inc. E-mail: Godsell@RightsMarket.com Website: www.RightsMarket.com ______________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ (c) Market News Publishing Inc. Tel:(604) 689-1101 All rights reserved. Fax:(604) 689-1106