In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants (1913)

Record Details:

Title:
In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants
Date:
1913
Publisher:
New York, Appeal Printing Co.
Volume:
In the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States of America, petitioner, vs. Motion Picture Patents Company, et al., defendants : record volume 3
Leaf #:
00088
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Government & Law
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
These seven volumes contain the testimonies and supporting documents from the U.S. District Court's antitrust lawsuit against the Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC). Formed in 1908, the MPPC (sometimes referred to asœ"the Edison Trust" or just "the Trust") sought to control the American film industry through pooling patents and demanding that producers and exhibitors acquire licenses to those patents. Independent producers and exhibitors, who refused to license the patents, argued that the MPPC was an unlawful monopoly. In 1912 and 1913, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania heard testimonies from both MPPC members, such as Siegmund Lubin, and "Independents" who later became Hollywood moguls, such as William Fox. Ultimately, in 1915, the case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which found the MPPC in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and spelled the end for the already weakening MPPC. -- Eric Hoyt, 2012
Date Added:
September 21, 2023
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1314 H. N. Marvin, Direct Examination. and the Licensee, referred to in paragraph 2b, together with any and all agreements modifying the same; and 5. Whereas, the Licensee is engaged in the manufacture, sale and leasing of motion pictures, including the printing of positive motion pictures from negative motion pictures and, relying upon the aforesaid representations of the Licensor and induced thereby, desires to obtain from the Licensor a license under said two reissued Letters Patent numbered 13,329 and 12,192, and Letters Patent No. 629,063 and to lease positive motion pictures, for use in exhibiting or projecting machines containing the inventions, or any of them described and claimed in said Letters Patent Nos. 578,185, 580,719, 586,953, 588,916, 673,329, 673,992 707,931, 722,382, 741,251, 770,937, 771,280, 785,205 and 785,237, and to sell or lease positive motion pictures on film of a width approximately (1%) inch or less in certain territory and on film of any width in certain territory : 6. Now, therefore, the parties hereto, for and in consideration of the sum of One Dollar to each in hand paid by the other, and for other good and valuable considerations from each to the other moving, receipt of all of which is hereby acknowledged, have agreed as follows : 7. The Licensor hereby grants to the Licensee, for the term and subject to the covenants, conditions and stipulations hereinafter expressed, the right and license under said reissued Letters Patent No. 13,329 and Letters Patent No. 629,063, for the United States, its territories, dependencies and possessions (hereinafter called the "territory aforesaid") to manufacture and use such a number of cameras embodying the inventions of said reissued Letters Patent No. 13,329 and Letters Patent No. 629,063, as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the Licensee's business, and to manufacture, print and produce or acquire negative and positive motion pictures embodying the inventions of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12,192, and to lease the same in the United States, its territories, dependencies and possessions (with the exceptions of its insular possessions and Alaska), hereinafter referred to as "lease territory aforesaid,' ' on film of a greater width than