The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants (1912)

Record Details:

Title:
The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants
Date:
1912
Publisher:
Washington D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office
Volume:
The United States of America, petitioner, v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others, defendants
Leaf #:
00035
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Government & Law
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 14, 2023
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OEIGINAL PETITION. 31 X. AGREEMENT BETWEEN MOTION PICTURE PATENTS COMPANY AND GENERAL FILM COMPANY. Motion Picture Patents Company and General Film Company, acting under the direction and domination of the individual and other corporation defendants, with the unlawful purposes hereinabove described, entered into an agreement April 21, 1910, unlawfully and unreasonably restraining the interstate trade of the General Film Company and of the 10 manufacturers, to the execution of which agreement each of the 10 Patents Company licensees assented in writing on the same day. A copy of that agreement, dated April 21, 1910, is attached to this petition as a part hereof, marked Exhibit 7. Defendants have observed and carried out said agreement since its execution and they are now conducting their several businesses in accordance with and in conformity to the unlawful terms and conditions established by said agreement. In brief, the agreement. Exhibit 7, provides: (1) The Patents Company grants to the General Film Company in the United States a license to have positive motion pictures manufactured for it by the Patents Company licensees, and to purchase positive motion pictures manufactured in foreign countries, and to lease such positive motion pictures provided they are leased subject to the condition that they be used solely in exhibiting or projecting machines containing the inventions or some of them of the letters patent owned by the Patents Company. (Par. 6) . (2) The licensee agrees that all positive motion pictures manufactured for it during the continuance of the agreement shall be manufactured only by the Patents Company, licensees. (Paragraph 8.) This paragraph prevents the General Film Com.pany from purchasing, leasing, or selling or otherwise dealing in positive motion pictures except those 55498—12 5