13 February 2004
Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html

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[Federal Register: February 12, 2004 (Volume 69, Number 29)]
[Notices]
[Page 7013-7014]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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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