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 #:
00091
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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H. N. Marvin, Direct Examination. 131' Patent Nos. 578,185, 580,719, 586,953, 588,91G, 673,329, 673,992, 707,934, 722,382, 714,251, 770,937, 771,280, 785,205, and 785,237, manufactured and sold under the license of the Licensor upon the conditions, (1) that said machines shall be used solely for exhibiting or projecting motion pictures containing the inventions of said reissue Letters Patent No. 12,192, licensed by the Licensor, while it owns or controls the Letters Patent under which such machine is licensed; and (2) upon other terms to be fixed by the Licensor while in use and while the Letters Patent under which it is licensed are owned or controlled by the Licensor (which other terms shall only be the payment of a royalty or rental to the Licensor while in use and which royalty or rental during the continuance of this agreement shall not be more than Ninety Cents (90c.) per week) ; and that the Licensor shall not during the continuance of this agreement cancel the license for the use of any such projecting machine because of a violation of Condition (1) hereof until a court of competent jurisdiction shall have restrained the unlawful use of such projecting machine. 14. The Licensee further covenants and agrees to mark each and every camera which the Licensee may make or use under this agreement embodying the inventions of reissued Letters Patent No. 13,329, and Letters Patent No. 629,063, or any of them, with the word "Patented" followed by the dates of grant of all of the said Letters Patent the inventions claimed in which are embodied in the said camera or apparatus, and to photographically print the Licensee's trade mark on the title of each positive motion picture on film of a greater width than approximately one and one-eighth (1%) inch leased by the Licensee in the "lease territory aforesaid,1' and to mark conspicuously on the labels which shall be placed on boxes or packages containing positive motion pictures on film of a greater width than approximately one and one-eighth (1%) inch leased by the Licensee in the "lease territory aforesaid," under this license, the following words and figures :