PicScout has partnered with Avens Lehman & Associés, a leading law firm in France with expertise in Copyright Law

Herzeliya, Israel , October 11, 2006 - PicScout has partnered with Avens Lehman & Associés with expertise in Copyright Law and the Photography Industry to enhance its complementary services for the Image Tracker User Group. Avens is the representative in France of Balms Group International, a network of independent law firms. They have partners in England, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Spain, Mexico, US (Miami), Portugal, Luxembourg, Argentina, Cyprus, Canada and Bulgaria .

PicScout is responsible these days for more than 90% of all online image infringements detection and is active in a growing list of territories: US, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Spain and more.

"During the last year, PicScout established a worldwide network of Legal Partners as part of its efforts to improve users' ability to settle cases and recover licensing fees. This important partnership with AVENS is highly valuable to our growing customer base in France and Spain and reflects our continuous commitment to improve our customers business" said Maya Bar , Director of Marketing and Sales in PicScout.

Since 1989, AVENS law firm has assisted as advisor of legal issues related to intellectual property as well as litigator to many content-related businesses. The everyday practical experience of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Law Department, run by Jean-Marie Léger, Partner, enabled to develop expertise in copyrights, trademarks, right of publicity and image of goods – necessary to defend creators’ assets. Over the years, AVENS developed special methods and tools for obtaining compensation for victims of infringements of copyrights.

According to Jean-Marie Léger, a Partner at Avens Lehman & Associés, it is imperative to place the infringement in the hands of a professional for immediate collection action. "When using the PicScout Image Tracker service the clients benefit not only by knowing who is using their images, but also by recovering licensing fees and the damages involved in the misuse".

About PicScout
PicScout [www.picscout.com] is a leading technology enabled services provider to the digital content industry. The company offers solutions for visual assets owners to control and protect their intellectual property across all media. PicScout solutions are based on proprietary image recognition technology and advanced Internet crawling capabilities. The Image Tracker enables the comparison of image databases to individual images, which are being used on various media. These services enable stock photography agencies, photographers and enterprises to better control their proprietary visual assets, enforce copyrights and increase their customer base. PicScout monitors over five million images for the world's most prestigious image libraries in both North America and Europe.

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Maya Bar
Director, Marketing and Sales
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