[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 107 (Monday, June 4, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 30007]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-13855]


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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 April 24, 2001, 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 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, IBM, Endicott, NY; MediaMatec AG, Zuerich, SWITZERLAND; 
Winbond Electronics Corporation, Hsinchu, TAIWAN; J-Phone 
Communications, Tokyo, JAPAN; NTRU Cryptosystems, Inc., Burlington, MA; 
Imagination Technologies, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, UNITED KINGDOM; 
MPMan.com. Inc., Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Coding Technologies, 
Nuremberg. GERMANY; and SSFDC Forum, Tokyo, JAPAN have been added as 
parties to this venture. Also, Aegisoft Corporation, Rockville, MD; 
AMP3.com/JVWeb, New York, NY; Audio Matrix, New York, NY; BreakerTech, 
Beaconsfield, Berkshire, UNITED KINGDOM; CDWorld Corporation, New York, 
NY; C-ONE TECH Co., Ltd., Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Comverse 
Technology, Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL; Digital Media on Demand, Allston, MA; 
Encoding.com/Loudeye Technologies, Seattle, WA; Guillemot, Carentoir, 
FRANCE; I2GO.COM, Atlanta, GA; J.River, Inc., Minneapolis, MN; LG 
Electronic, Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA; M.A.R.S. (Multimedia Archive and 
Retrieval System), London, UNITED KINGDOM; MODE (Music-on-Demand), 
London, UNITED KINGDOM; MusicMarc, Inc., Jerusalem, ISRAEL; News Corp 
(NDS Technologies), Los Angeles, CA; Perception Digital, Ltd. Hong 
Kong, HONG KONG--CHINA; Sphere Multimedia, Hallandale, FL; 
Supertracks.com, Portland, OR; URocket, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA; Wavo 
Corporation, Phoenix, AZ; AudioTrack Corporation, Toronto, Ontario, 
CANADA; Cognicity, Inc., Edina, MN; HitHive, Inc., Seattle, WA; 
ARTISTdirect, Los Angeles, CA; and Musicmaker.com, Inc., Reston, VA 
have been dropped from the venture.
    No other changes have been made in either the membership or planned 
activity of this group research project. Membership in the group 
research project remains open, and SDMI intends to file additional 
written notification disclosing all changes in membership.
    On June 28, 1999, SDMI 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 December 
2, 1999 (64 FR 67591).
    The last notification was filed with the Department on September 
21, 2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to 
section 6(b) of the Act on November 24, 2000 (65 FR 70614).

Constance K. Robinson,
Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 01-13855 Filed 6-1-01; 8:45 am]
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