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OKIGINAL PETITION. 25
customers of such exchange; and hkewise when it cancels the Ucense of an exhibitor notice is sent to the rental exchanges. Thereafter neither such rental exchange nor exhibitor can obtain anywhere in the United States the product of any of the ten manufacturers defendants herein. All the oppressive restrictions and unlawful conditions contained in the agreements and pointed out in the preceding paragraphs of this petition, and to be noted in the paragraphs to follow, defendants have observed and enforced at all times since they engaged in their unlawful combination, and they will continue to enforce said unreasonable and oppressive restraints and conditions unless restrained by this honorable court.
VIII.
LICENSE AGREEMENTS WITH MANUFACTURERS OF EXHIBITING
MACHINES.
Defendants on December 18, 1908, not only by means of the Patents Company and the so-called license agreements bound together all manufacturers of moving-picture cameras and films into one combination, but also with the same unlawful purpose, and as a further means to monopolize trade, devised license agreements between the Patents Company and each manufacturer of projecting or exhibiting machines. The Ucense agreements of December 18, 1908, recite that the parties are intending to conclude other agreements relating to projecting machines. (Supra, p. 19.) The agreements between the Patents Company and projecting machine manufacturers contain many of the restrictive provisions incorporated in the license agreements under the camera and film patents referred to above. (Supra, pp. 16 to 19.) Among other things, these agreements provide that every exhibiting machine shall be sold subject to the condition that it shall be used solely for exhibiting motion pictures containing the