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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Consolidated Financial Statements of Macrovision Corporation for the nine months
ended September 30, 1999, and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such
Consolidated Financial Statements.
</LEGEND>
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0
0
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