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 1
Leaf #:
000616
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:
May 23, 2024
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590 Gov t Ex. 134, Agt. Edison & Eastman Kodak Cos. lias granted or may hereafter grant licenses, and of the dates when their license agreements take effect, in order that the Eastman Company may be advised as to whom it is to charge the royalty as hereinafter provided, and also be able to compute the same, and also covenants and agrees to promptly notify the Eastman Company of the revocation, cancellation or termination otherwise of any license agreements with the "Patents Company licensees' ' so that the Eastman Company may know that such license agreements have been terminated. 12. The Patents Company further authorizes and empowers the Eastman Company to charge to and collect from each of the "Patents Company licensees" to whom the Eastman Company supplies such "N. I. Licensed Film", and pay over to it (said Patents Company), in the manner hereinafter provided for, the royalties referred to in paragraph G of this agreement. 13. The Eastman Company covenants and agrees that, during the continuance of this agreement it will fill all orders for the "N. I. Licensed Film" aforesaid received by it from any of the "Patents Company licensees" (who have made or who may hereafter make an agreement with it, the same in all substantial respects as the one hereto annexed marked SCHEDULE B, and which the Patents Company hereby represents and agrees it has authorized and will authorize each said licensee to make) with reasonable diligence and at the prices hereinafter provided for, on condition, however, that if the total amount of non-inflammable sensitized motion picture film, suitable for the commercial production of negative and positive motion pictures, required by its several customers in the United States and in countries foreign thereto, should at any time during the continuance of this agreement, exceed its output of such film, then in such case each "Patents Company licensee" shall be entitled only to the same proportion of its output of such film that such licensee had of its total output of sensitized motion picture film the previous calendar year, and will manufacture all such "N. I. Licensed Film" by its secret processes and will embody therein its secret compositions, and that it will not, after the date hereof, and during the continuance of this agreement, knowingly furnish or sell, in the "territory afore