[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 231 (Thursday, December 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67591-67592]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-31260]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Antitrust Division
Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and
Production Act of 1993--Secure Digital Music Initiative
Notice is hereby given that, on June 28, 1999, pursuant to Section
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993,
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Secure Digital Music Initiative
(``SDMI'') has filed written notifications simultaneously with the
Attorney General and the Federal Trade Commission disclosing (1) the
identities of the parties and (2) the nature and objectives of the
venture. The notifications were filed for the purpose of involving the
Act's provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to
actual damages under specified circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b)
of the Act, the identities of the parties are: Adaptec, Milpitas, CA;
AEI Music/Playmedia, Seattle, WA; American Federation of Musicians
(AFM), New York, NY; American Federation of TV and Radio Artists
(AFTRA), New York, NY; American Society of Composers, Authors and
Publishers (ASCAP), New York, NY; America Online; Dulles, VA; Audio
Matrix, New York, NY; Aris Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA; AT&T,
Florham Park, NJ; Audible, Inc., Wayne, NJ; Audio Explosion, San
Francisco, CA; Audiohighway.com, Cupertino, CA; Audio Soft, Geneva,
Switzerland; Aureal Semiconductor, Inc., Fremont, CA; Beatnik, San
Mateo, CA; BIEM, Paris, France; BMG Entertainment, Inc., New York, NY;
Breaker Tech. Lmtd., London, England; Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), New
York, NY; International Confederation of Societies of Authors and
Composers (ICSAC), Paris, France; CDDB, Berkeley, CA; Cductive.com, New
York, NY; CD World Corp., New York, NY; Channelware, Inc., Nepean,
Ontario, Canada; Compaq Computer Corp., Houston, TX; Comverse InfoSys
Limited, Tel Aviv, Israel; Creative Technology Ltd., Milpitas, CA;
Diamond Multimedia, San Jose, CA; Dentsu, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; Deutsche
Telekom, Bonn, Germany; Digimarc, Lake Oswego, OR; Digital on Demand,
Carlsbad, CA; Digital Theater Systems, Inc., Agoura Hills, CA; DIVX,
Herndon, VA; Dolby Laboratories, Inc., San Francisco, CA; EAIC
Corporation (on behalf of Enso Audio Imaging), Seattle, WA; EMI-Capitol
Records, New York, NY; EMusic.com, Inc., Redwood City, CA;
Encoding.com, Seattle, WA; Federation of Music Producers Japan (FMJP),
Tokyo, Japan; Fraunhaufer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten
Forschung e.V. for its Institut fuer Integrierte Schaltungen, Munich,
Germany; Geidankyo (Japan Council of Performers Rights Admin), Tokyo,
Japan; Harry Fox Agency, New York, NY; Hewlett Packard, Colorado
Springs, CO; Hitachi Limited, Tokyo, Japan; HMV Group, London, England;
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), London,
England; I2GO.com, Atlanta, GA; IGUIDE--News America Digital
Publishing, Inc., Los Angeles, CA; Infineon Technologies, Munich,
Germany; Intertrust Technologies Corp., Sunnyvale, CA; Iomega Corp.,
Roy, UT; J. River, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; Japan Digital Content (on
behalf of Waveless Radio Consortium), Tokyo, Japan; JVWebb, Inc.,
Houston, TX; Kent Ridge Digital Labs, Singapore; LG Electronic, Seoul,
Korea; Liquid Audio, Redwood City, CA; Lucent Technologies, Atlanta,
GA; Music Copyright Operational Services, Ltd. (MCOS), London, England;
M. Ken Co, LTD, Tokyo, Japan; MAGEX, Montebello Vicentino, Italy;
Matsushita, Tokyo, Japan; Micronas Semiconductors, Inc., San Jose, CA;
Macro Vision, Sunnyvale, CA; MCY Music World, Inc., New York, NY;
Memory Limited, Midlothian, UK; Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA;
Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo, Japan; Multimedia Archives & Retrieval
Systems, London, England; musicmaker.com (formerly The Music Connection
Corporation), Reston, VA; MusicMarc, Jerusalem, Israel; Music
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Producers Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA; National Association of
Recording Merchandisers (NARM), Marlton, NJ; National Music Publishers
Association (NMPA), New York, NY; National Semiconductor Corporation
(on behalf of Mediamatics), Santa Clara, CA; Nippon Telegraphic &
Telephone Corp., Tokyo, Japan; Nokia, Tampere, Finland; NTT Mobile
Communications Network, Inc., Tokyo, Japan; Philips Corp. North
America, Briarcliff Manor, NY; Pioneer North America, Inc., Long Beach,
CA; QPICT, Inc., Saratoga, CA; RealNetworks, Inc., Seattle, WA;
Reciprocal, Inc. (Rights Exchange), Buffalo, NY; Recording Industry
Association of America, Inc. (RIAA), Washington, DC; Recording Industry
Association of Japan (RIAJ), Tokyo, Japan; RPK Security, Preverenges,
Switzerland; The SDMI Foundation, Inc., Washington, DC; Samsung
Electronics, Seoul, Korea; San Disk Corp., Sunnyvale, CA; Sanyo North
America Corp., San Jose, CA; Seca (on behalf of Canal Plus), Paris,
France; Sharp Corp., Osaka, Japan; Solana Technology Development Corp.,
San Diego, CA; Sonic Solutions, Novato, CA; Sonopress (BMG Storage
Media), New York, NY; Sony Corp. of America, New York, NY; Sony Music
Entertainment Inc., New York, NY; Sphere Multimedia Technologies Inc.,
Hallandale, FL; Supertracks.com, Portland, OR; ST & Hilo, Madrid,
Spain; STMicroelectronics, Inc., Carrollton, TX; TDK Electronics Corp.,
Port Washington, NY; Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX; Thomson Consumer
Electronics, Inc., Indianapolis, IN; Tokyo Electron Device Ltd., Tokyo,
Japan; Toshiba Corp., Tokyo, Japan; Touch Tunes Digital Jukebox, Inc.,
Montreal, Canada; Universal Music Group, Los Angeles, CA; Victor
Company of Japan, Limited (JVC), Yokohama, Japan; Warner Music Group,
Burbank, CA; Wave Systems Corp., Lee, MA; Yamaha Corporation,
Hamamatsu, Japan; and 4C Entity (an LLC owned by Toshiba, Intel,
Matsushita, and IBM), Washington, DC.
The nature and objectives of the venture are to develop a
Specification for the secure distribution and use of music in digital
form that meets the needs of technology companies, the worldwide
recording community and their customers. The Specification will be an
open and interoperable standard.
Membership in this group research project remains open, and SDMI
intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes
in membership.
Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 99-31260 Filed 12-1-99; 8:45 am]
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