01-18897. Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 1993-Digital Imaging Group, Inc.

Notice is hereby given that, on May 11, 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”), Digital Imaging Group, Inc. 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, Applied Science Fiction, Austin, TX; Pixology Limited, Guildford, Surrey, UNITED KINGDOM; QBeo Inc., North Bend, WA; and Share-A-Photo, Reading R, Berkshire, UNITED KINGDOM have been added as parties to this venture. Also EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; House of Images, Inc., Beverly Hills, CA; In-System Design, Boise, ID; IXLA, Ltd., Danbury, CT; Kaidan Incorporated, Feasterville, PA; NewHeights Software Corporation, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA; NUWAVE Technologies, Inc., Fairfield, NJ; PhotoTablet, Inc., Sebastopol, CA; Pixami, Inc., San Ramon, CA; SmashCast, Inc. (formerly MSlide, Inc.), San Francisco, CA; Societe des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, Paris, FRANCE; Xippix.com (formerly Island Graphics), Larkspur, CA; and Zing, Inc., San Francisco, CA 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 Digital Imaging Group, Inc. intends to file additional written notification disclosing all changes in membership.

On September 25, 1997, Digital Imaging Group, Inc. 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 November 10, 1997 (62 FR 60530).

The last notification was filed with the Department on November 3, 2000. A notice was published in the Federal Register pursuant to section 6(b) of the Act on January 11, 2001 (66 FR 2448).

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.