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

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64 OKIGINAL PETITION, EXHIBIT 3. they further covenant and agree that any changes which may hereafter be so made and communicated to the Licensor in said scale of prices^ and of which the Licensee shall be notified in writing by the Licensor, shall be accepted and adopted by the Licensee in the place and stead of the scale of prices above given or of any substitute or substitutes therefor adopted prior to such change. It is, however, expressly mutually covenanted and agreed that in no case shall such new scale of prices, either list or standing order, be less than nine (9) cents per running foot for any motion picture leased vrithin four months of the date of release of the said motion picture. By the expression "running feet of new subjects'' above referred to, and hereafter used, the parties hereto mean 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 (1) inc h, regularly listed and offered for lease in the "lease territory aforesaid." The Licensor and Licensee further mutually covenant and agree that in case, during the continuance of this agreement, there should be for any reason onl}^ three such licensees, then, and in such case, the Licensor m^ay adopt a minimum scale of prices in the place and stead of the minimum scale of prices above given or of any substitute or substitutes therefor adopted in the manner above provided, which, however, shall in no case be above the minimum scale of prices that may be in force at the time the Licensor adopts the said new minimum scale of prices, which said new minimum scale of prices shall be binding upon the Licensee, but only after receiving notice thereof in wiiting from the Licensor. 10. The Licensor and Licensee further mutually covenant and agree that an order in the "lease territory aforesaid," for one or more positive motion pictures of each and every new subject made by the Licensee (except chrono-photographic subjects and other special subjects that are announced and advertised as special by the Licensee and of which no copy or print is leased by the Licensee for less than list price within two (2) months after release date) when