[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 111 (Friday, June 8, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 34068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-13971]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Secure Content Storage Association, LLC

    Notice is hereby given that, on May 3, 2012, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), the Secure Content Storage 
Association, LLC (``SCSA'') has filed written notifications 
simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal Trade 
Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the venture 
and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The notifications 
were filed for the purpose of invoking 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 
to the venture are: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Burbank, CA; 
Twentieth Century Fox Innovations, Inc., Los Angeles, CA; SanDisk 
Corporation, Milpitas, CA; and Western Digital Technologies, Inc., 
Irvine, CA.
    The general area of SCSA's planned activity is to develop, acquire, 
own, license and promote technology to facilitate the distribution, use 
and sale of digital content while allowing content owners to prevent 
the unauthorized interception, copying and redistribution of that 
content. This technology will include, but is not necessarily limited 
to, methods for data encryption, encrypting key management, encryption 
renewability, and forensic tracing (the ``Technology''). The parties 
anticipate the relevant content will be valuable commercial content 
protected by copyrights and other intellectual property rights. The 
Technology is intended to interact with other suitable content 
protection technologies in order to promote the flexible use of such 
content by consumers while continuing to maintain appropriate security. 
Through a limited liability corporation formed by the parties or their 
affiliates, the parties will promote and license the Technology to 
facilitate broad adoption and enable new lines of business in affected 
industries.
    In furtherance of the purposes stated above, the parties and their 
affiliates may, among other things, engage in theoretical analysis; 
experimentation; systematic study; research; development; testing; 
extension of investigative findings or theories of a scientific or 
technical nature into practical application for experimental and 
demonstration purposes; collection, exchange and analysis of research 
or production information; solicitation from industry of feedback on 
specifications and licenses; develop, publish and license 
specifications pertaining to the protection of high value digital 
content on a variety of consumer devices; enter into agreements to 
carry out the objectives of the parties; establish and operate 
facilities in the United States for conducting such venture; conduct 
such venture on a protected and proprietary basis; prosecute 
applications for patents and grant licenses for the results of such 
venture; and any combination of these activities.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-13971 Filed 6-7-12; 8:45 am]
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