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)

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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 1
Leaf #:
000606
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Early Cinema
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 12, 2024
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580 Gov't Ex. 133, Agt. Edison & Eastman Kodak Cos. to the Patents Company or to any of the "Patents Company licensees" the share apportioned or paid to any of such licensees; that the Patents Company shall furnish to the Eastman Company the number of thousand running feet of film of a greater width than approximately one (1) inch having positive motion pictures thereon imported by all the "Patents Company licensees'' during the period for which each said installment is paid to the Eastman Company, in order that the said apportionment may be made. 25. It is mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Edison Company and the Eastman Company that the two agreements in writing entered into by and between them on or about the 20th day of May, 1908, referred to in Paragraph 8, are hereby cancelled and terminated, and each of the said parties thereto hereby releases and discharges the other party thereto of and from all claims and demands that it has or may have against the other under or rising out of each of said two agreements in writing. 26. It is further mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Patents Company and the Eastman Company that this agreement shall take effect January 1st, 1909, and unless sooner terminated as hereinafter provided, shall continue until the expiration, on August 31, 1914, of the aforesaid reissued letters patent No. 12,037 and 12,192; it being provided, however, that either parly hereto shall have the right at any time to terminate this agreement by giving sixty (GO) days notice in writing to the other party of its election so to do. Such termination of this agreement, however, shall not prejudice either party in the recovery of damages because of any breach, violation or non-performance thereof by the other. 27. It is further mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Patents Company and the Eastman Company that in case the Patents Company should become bankrupt, cease doing business or should be dissolved, voluntarily or otherwise, or its charter should be repealed, the Patents Company shall immediately give notice of the same to the Eastman Company, and upon the