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 #:
000453
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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Motion Picture Patents Co. and General Film Co. 431 transportation company for transportation to "said export territory," and not otherwise; bul in no ease shall sales "for export" of motion pictures be knowingly made by the Licensee to persons. firms, or corporations whom such Licensee has reason to believe will reimport them into the "lease territory aforesaid" for sale or use. li. It is further mutually covenanted and agreed by and between the Licensor and Licensee that no lease of positive motion pictures manufactured for or put-chased by the Licensee, as aforesaid, shall be made in the "lease territory aforesaid" by the Licensee, except upon and subject to the following terms and conditions. namely: i 1 i That the lessee of such positive motion picture shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the same, but shall only have the right to tise such positive motion picture in giving motion picture exhibitions in machines licensed by the Licensor under the said Letters Patent Nos. 578185, 580749, 586953, 588916, 673329, 673992, 707934, 722382, 744251, 770937, 771280, 785205, and 785237, or one or more of them, or under any other letters patent that it may hereafter acquire or control; and (2) that the lessee shall not make or permit others to make any reproduction commonly known as a "dupe" of such positive motion picture or any other positive motion picture containing the invention of said reissued Letters Patent No. 12192; and < 'A i that the lessee shall not sub-let such motion picture; and (4) that the lessee of such positive motion picture shall not remove the trade-mark or trade name or title therefrom: and (5) that the Licensee shall on the first day of every month, beginning with December 1, 1910, withdraw from the market an amount of such positive motion pictures i not leased by the Licensee over twelve months before) equal to the amount of such positive motion pictures that was so leased by it during the seventh month preceding the date of each such withdrawal, with the exception, however, that where any such positive motion pictures are destroyed by tire or lost in transportation, the amount so destroyed or lost shall he deducted from the amount to be withdrawn as aforesaid; and I (> i that the violat ion of any of tin1 foregoing eondrl ions ent it les the lessor to immediate possession of such motion picture without liability for any juice which the lessee or the person in whose possession it is found may have paid therefor.