[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7013-7014]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-3064]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; DVD Copy Control Association (``DVD CCA'')

    Notice is hereby given that, on January 6, 2004, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), DVD Copy Control 
Association (``DVD CCA'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing changes in its membership status. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances. Specifically, Advanced Media 
Technology Co., Ltd., Seongnam-City, Republic of Korea; AMX 
Corporation, Richardson, TX; Conexant Systems, Inc., San Diego, CA; 
DCM, Digital Communication Media AB, Kista, Sweden; Digipack Optical 
Disc, SA, Beriain, Spain; Eastern Asia Technology Limited, Singapore, 
Singapore; Ellion Digital Inc., Kyonggi-do, Republic of Korea; 
Pinnacale Systems, GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany; OSM LLC, Rochester, NY; 
Sandmartin Zhongshan Electronic Co., Ltd., Guangdong, People's Republic 
of China; SoundMax Electronics Ltd., Hong Kong, Hong Kong-China; and 
WIS Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA have been added as parties to this 
venture.
    Also, ATL Electronics (M)Sdn. Bhd., Kedah, Malaysia; and ViXS 
Systems In.,

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada have been dropped as parties to this venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of the group research project. Membership in this group 
research project remains open, and DVD CCA intends to file additional 
written notifications disclosing all changes in membership.
    On April, 11, 2001, DVD CCA filed its original notification 
pursuant to Section 6(a) of the Act. The Department of Justice 
published a notice in the Federal Register pursuant to Section 6(b) of 
the Act on August 3, 2001 (66 FR 40727).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on October 8, 
2003. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
Section 6(b) of the Act on November 12, 2003 (68 FR 64124).

Dorothy B. Fountain,
Deputy Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 04-3064 Filed 2-11-04; 8:45 am]
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