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 (1912-1913)

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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:
1912-1913
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 7
Leaf #:
000356
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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334 Motion Picture Patents Co. and Gaumont Co. of N. Y. "talking motion picture" after it lias know lodge of any such sub-letting, and to notify the Licensee and the additional licensees of the Licensor of the termination of any license for the use of any exhibiting or projecting machines under the aforesaid Letters Patent, or any of them, and of any such lessee1 who may so sub-let such motion pictures after being notified by it not to do so; and the Licensor further agrees to. compel all such additional licensees to refrain from supplying motion pictures for use with any such exhibiting or projecting machines, the license1 lor which has been so terminated, or to any such lessee. (IT) The Licensor and Licensee further mutually covenant and agree that if in any case suit is brought upon said reissued Letters Patent Nos. 12.037 and 12,192, or said Letters Patent Xos. 586,953 or 722,382, either of the claims of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12,192, or either of the first, second, or third claims of said reissued Letters Patent Xo. 12,037, or any of the claims in issue in any such suit upon said Letters Patent Xos. 580,953 or 722,382, is or are held invalid by a court that last hears and decides such suit, or should be held by such court not to be infringed, then, and in any such case, the Licensee may at once terminate this agreement and the license thereby granted, by giving notice of its election so to do by the Licensor. (18) It is further mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Licensor and Licensee that nnless sooner terminated as hereinbefore or hereinafter provided, this agreement and tin1 license granted thereby shall take effect on the day and year first above written, and shall continue until June 20, 1910, but that the Licensee may renew this agreement and license thereafter from year to year upon the same terms, conditions and stipulations as herein provided, by giving notice to the Licensor on or before April 20th of each year, beginning with the year 1910, of the Licensee's election in so renew this agreement and license, and Upon tin1 giving of each such notice this agreement and the license thereby granted shall be considered and treated by the Licensor and Licensee as renewed for a period of one year, beginning June 20th of the year following such notice, except that the last renewal period shall be for the period from June 20th, 191 1, to August 26th, 1919, the date Of expiration of the Letters Patent Xo. 707,934.