City Brand International, of Shenzhen, China, joined the...

City Brand International, of Shenzhen, China, joined the DVD Copy Control Association, the group told the Justice Department and the FTC in written notifications Sept. 4, said a notice in Tuesday’s Federal Register (http://1.usa.gov/1v18rc0). Six companies also have withdrawn from the DVD CCA, the notice said. They are Eclipse Data Technologies, of Pleasanton, California; Hitachi, of Tokyo; Hong Kong Asa Multimedia, of Hong Kong; Marubun, of Tokyo; MediaCore, of Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea; and Nutron International, of Guangdong, China. The notifications were filed for the purpose of extending the DVD CCA and its members the antitrust protections afforded by the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, the notice said.