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DocuRights^® Secure Container Technology from Aries Systems to Be Used with Medical Journal Content from Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

North Andover, MA, USA -- May 5, 2000. Aries Systems Corporation of North Andover, MA (Aries) and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a Wolters Kluwer Company based in Philadelphia, PA (LWW) today announced their intent to enter into a multi-year content distribution agreement. Under this agreement, LWW's professional journal content for medicine and healthcare will be protected and distributed on the World Wide Web using DocuRights^®, Aries innovative secure container technology.

DocuRights^® allows a publisher to secure and disseminate its valuable PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) content without risk of piracy or unauthorized redistribution. A DocuRights^® secure container enables e-commerce purchase of articles on a pay-per-view basis. It also allows the publisher to grant fair-use replication rights for the PDF, accommodating the rights of individual purchasers, author e-prints, and bulk promotional e-prints.

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins is a leading international publisher of professional health information for physicians, nurses, specialized clinicians and students. LWW provides essential information for healthcare professionals in print and electronic formats, including textbooks, journals, CD-ROM, and via Intranets and the Internet. LWW publishes more than 250 journals in medicine and healthcare, in print and electronic formats. While PDF is a preferred form of electronic distribution, the risk of unauthorized electronic replication has been of concern to LWW and its publishing clients. Now, DocuRights^® will provide this security, allowing LWW to offer its content through widespread distribution channels. As well as enabling pay-per-view access, DocuRights^® will allow LWW to track and control both primary and secondary distribution of its content. Secondary distribution of an article occurs when a purchaser of an article forwards the PDF to a friend or colleague, at which point DocuRights^® facilitates a secondary document purchase.

Lyndon Holmes, President of Aries, noted, "Perhaps the most powerful aspect of DocuRights^® is that the publisher no longer has to worry about uncontrolled redistribution of its valuable content. By using DocuRights^®, it's actually in the publisher's best economic interest to maximize accessibility to the secured PDFs. This "e-syndication" concept means that as more people have access to the PDFs, the greater will be the volume of pay-per-view transactions, creating an incremental revenue stream for the publisher."

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