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 #:
00098
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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1324 H. N. Martin, Direct Examination. those set forth in this agreement; (b) that the Licensor may continue in the Eastman Kordak Company, a New York Corporation, for the term of said Reissued Letters Patent No. 13,329 and said Letters Patent No. 629,063, the right with which said Eastman Kodak Company is now vested by the Licensor, under said Letters Patent, to use such motion picture cameras as it may desire for its own use, including film testing; and (c) that the Licensor may, if requested so to do by the Licensee, or any of the additional ten (10) licensees aforesaid, grant licenses in writing to individuals to use motion picture cameras embodying the inventions of said reissued Letters Patent No. 13,329 and said Letters Patents No. 629,063, sueU cameras to be leased by the Licensee or one of the said additional ten (10) licensees aforesaid by a non-transferable lease in writing in a form to be approved by the Licensor, and such cameras to be used by the individuals so licensed in making negatives which (or copies of which) are to be used by the Licensee or one of the other ten (10) licensees aforesaid in the production of positive motion pictures to be leased or sold by the Licensee or one of the other ten (10) licensees in the "lease territory aforesaid'' or in Canada. By the expression "running feet of new subjects" as used in this agreement, the parties hereto agree, is meant the aggregate amount ascertained by adding together the individual number of running feet of one print of each and every new motion picture on film of a greater width than approximately one and one-eighth (1%) inch, regularly listed and offered for lease in the "lease territory aforesaid" or used for profit in said "lease territory aforesaid." 28. It is further mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Licensor and the Licensee that the Licensor will, during the continuance of this agreement, license such a number of persons, firms or corporations under said Letters Patent, Nos. 578,185, 580,749, 586,953, 588,916, 673,329, 673,992, 707,934, 722,382, 744,251, 770,937, 771,280, 785,205 and 785,237, to make and sell exhibiting or projecting machines containing the inventions described and claimed in the same, capable of exhibiting or projecting motion pictures on film of a width greater