B&O, Hitachi Among 12 Firms Withdrawing From DVD Copy Control Association, DOJ Notice Says

Twelve companies, including Bang & Olufsen and Hitachi, have withdrawn from the DVD Copy Control Association, and one company, Azend Group Corp. of Chino, California, joined, DVD CCA told the Justice Department and the FTC in simultaneous “written notifications” Feb. 6. That’s according to a notice in Thursday’s Federal Register by Patricia Brink, director-civil enforcement, in DOJ’s Antitrust Division. The change-of-membership notifications were required to extend DVD CCA antitrust protections under the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993, Brink’s notice said.