[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 158 (Thursday, August 15, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49768-49769]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-19851]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993--Joint Task-Force Networked Media

    Notice is hereby given that, on July 10, 2013, pursuant to Section 
6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, 
15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Joint Task-Force Networked Media 
(``JT-NM'') 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: ABC American Broadcasting Corporation, New York, 
NY; Advanced Advertising Forum, Watauga, TX; ALC NetworX, Munich, 
GERMANY; Altera Corp., San Jose, CA; Arista Networks, Santa Clara, CA; 
AT&T, Dallas, TX; Athlone Institute of Technology, Westmeath, IRELAND; 
Audinate, Inc., Portland, OR; AVA Networks, Boulder, CO; Avid 
Technology, Londonderry, NH; Ray Baldock (Individual), Nevada City, CA; 
David Bancroft (Individual), Reading, UNITED KINGDOM; Barco, Duluth, 
GA; Bosch Communications, Burnsville, MN; British Broadcast 
Corporation, London, Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM; BskyB Ltd, Isleworth, 
UNITED KINGDOM; CBC Radio Canada, Montreal, Quebec, CANADA; CBS, New 
York, NY; CDG--CineDesignGroup, Rome, ITALY; Ciena, Kanata, Ontario, 
CANADA; Cinegy, Munich, GERMANY; Cisco, San Jose, CA; Cobalt Digital 
Inc., Urbana, IL; Coral Sea Studios P/L, Clifton Beach, Queensland, 
AUSTRALIA; Crystal Solutions, Buford, GA; Peter Dare (Individual), 
Queensland, AUSTRALIA; CS Meyer, Inc., Grass Valley, CA; Devoncroft 
Partners, Coronado, CA; Dimension Data, Oberursel, GERMANY; Dimetis 
GmbH, Dietzenbach, GERMANY; DIRECTV, El Segundo, CA; Discovery 
Communications, LLC, Oak Hill, VA; Distrito Telefonica, Madrid, SPAIN; 
Diversified Systems Inc., Kenilworth, NJ; Dolby, Porter Ranch, CA; 
James Donahue (Individual), Plainville, MA; DVBLink, Inc., Mount 
Vernon, IA; Bob Edge TV Consulting, Tualatin, OR; Elemental 
Technologies, Portland, OR; Encompass Digital Media, Los Angeles, CA; 
Ericsson Television Ltd, Southampton, UNITED KINGDOM; ESPN, Bristol, 
CT; Evertz, Burlington, Ontario, CANADA; European Broadcasting Union, 
Le Grand-Saconnex, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; EVS Broadcast Equipment SA, 
Seraing, BELGIUM; FOX, Los Angeles, CA; Fraunhofer IDMT, Ilmaneu, 
GERMANY; Fraunhofer FOKUS Research Institute, Berlin, GERMANY; Front 
Porch Digital, Mt Laurel, NJ; Fujitsu Frontech North America, Toms 
River, NJ; GIC, Calabasas, CA; GigaContent A/S, Skanderborg, DENMARK; 
GoPro, San Mateo, CA; Grass Valley, San Francisco, CA; Harmonic Inc., 
Portland, OR; Harris Broadcast Corporation, Toronto, Quebec, CANADA; HD 
Consulting, Sewickley, PA; Home Box Office, Norwalk, CT; HRT, Zagreb, 
CROATIA; IABM, Gloucestershire, UNITED KINGDOM; IneoQuest Technologies, 
Inc., Mansfield, MA; Internet2, Ann Arbor, MI; intoPIX, Louvain-La-
Neuve, BELGIUM; Iowa Public Television, Johnston, IA; IRIB, Tehran, 
IRAN; IRT GmbH, Munich, GERMANY; ISAN IA, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Johnson

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Interactive, Venice, CA; Lawo Group, Dielsdorf, SWITZERLAND; Level 3 
Communications, Broomfield, CO; LTN Global Communications, Savage, MD; 
Peter Lude (Individual), San Francisco, CA; Macnica Americas, San Jose, 
CA; Media Links, Inc., Bloomfield, CT; Media Systems Consulting, Santa 
Clara, CA; Mediahub, Dubendorf, SWITZERLAND; MediAnswers, LLC, Mequon, 
WI; Mellanox Technologies, Sunnyvale, CA; Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA; 
Miranda, Grass Valley, CA; Modern VideoFilm, Burbank, CA; Multimedia 
Networks and Systems, Delft, NETHERLANDS; NBC Universal, New York, NY; 
Net Element, Inc., Miami, FL; Net Insight, Stockholm, SE., SWEDEN; 
Nevion, Oxnard, CA; NHK--Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Shibuya, 
Tokyo, JAPAN; NineTiles Networks, Ltd., Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; 
Norwegian Broadcasting Corp., Oslo, NORWAY; Luis Nunes (Individual), 
Annecy, FRANCE; Omron Network Products, Pleasanton, CA; Onstream Media, 
San Francisco, CA; Pakistan Television Corp., Islamabad, PAKISTAN; 
Panasonic, Osaka, JAPAN; Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA; Phoenix 
Satellite Television, Tseung Kwan O, Sai Kung, HONG KONG; Quantel, 
Newbury, Berkshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Quantum Data Incorporated, Elgin, 
IL; Radio Telefis Eireann, Dublin, IRELAND; Radio 
Televis[Atilde][pound]o de Portugal, Lisbon, PORTUGAL; RAI 
Radiotelevisione Italiana, Rome, ITALY; Edward Reuss (Individual), 
Santa Cruz, CA; Rohde & Schwarz, Munich, GERMANY; Sarnoff Corp., 
Princeton, NJ; SDVI Corporation, Menlo Park, CA; Semtech Corporation, 
Burlington, Ontario, CANADA; Skotel Corporation, Brossard, Quebec, 
CANADA; Society of Motion Pictures and Television Engineers, White 
Plains, NY; Snell Group, Havant, Hampshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Sony 
Corporation, Atsugi-shi, Kanagawa, JAPAN; SVT-Sveriges Television, 
Stockholm, SWEDEN; System Resource, Nevada City, CA; TBT, Inc., Del 
Mar, CA; TeamCast, Saint-Gr[eacute]goire Cedex, FRANCE; Technical 
University of Catalonia, Barcelona, SPAIN; TechNova Consulting LLC, 
Portland, OR; Telecom Product Consulting, Orange, CT; 
Telef[Atilde]\3\nica Germany, Munich, GERMANY; Telestream, Inc., El 
Granada, CA; Televisio de Catalunya, Sant Joan Despi, Barcelona, SPAIN; 
TELUS Communication Inc., Toronto, Quebec, CANADA; Thomson Video 
Networks, Cesson-S[eacute]vign[eacute], FRANCE; Tokyo Broadcasting 
System Television, Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; Turner Broadcast Systems, 
Atlanta, GA; TV2, Bergen, NORWAY; University of Southern California, 
Stanford, CA; Univision, New York, NY; Verizon, New York, NY; Video 
Services Forum, Somerdale, NJ; Vidovation, Irving, CA; Wheatstone 
Corporation, New Bern, NC; Xilinx, Inc., San Jose, CA; Yleisradio Oy, 
Helsinki, FINLAND and ZDF, Mainz, GERMANY.
    The general area of JT-NM's planned activity is to ensure 
interoperability in packet-based systems (networking, equipment and 
software) for professional media. This includes defining specifications 
for an agile, on-demand, packet-based network infrastructure designed 
to support a variety of distributed, automated, professional media 
(file-and stream-based) workflows for local, regional and global 
production supporting any standards-based format for interoperability 
that will facilitate new workflows and reduce total cost of ownership 
and to speed-up content time-to-market.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2013-19851 Filed 8-14-13; 8:45 am]
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