The US District Court for the Central District of California
dismissed for a second time last week a Sherman Act Section 2
claim brought by Nero AG against MPEG LA, this time with
prejudice.
Nero had filed an anti-trust lawsuit against the MPEG-LA last
May, claiming the MPEG licensing body had abused its monopoly
power, and that is had not honoured agreements made with the US
Department of Justice.
Nero is the maker of a number of CD, DVD and Blu-ray burning
applications - software for which it had to acquire licenses from
MPEG LA.