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)

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 #:
000657
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Government & Law
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 21, 2023
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Motion Picture Patents Co. and George Kleine. 635 And for motion pictures on film narrower or wider than approximately one and three-eighths inch (1% in.i, the above mentioned royalty rates shall be reduced or increased in proportion to the reduction or increase in width of such narrower or wider film below or above the width of approximately one and three-eighths inch i 1% in. i . The Licensor and Licensee further agree that, in the first instance, as provided in paragraph 8, the Licensee shall pay to the Licensor royalties according to the minimum rate (three and onequarter (Sy4 I mills per running foot) aforesaid; that the Licensor shall, after each year ending June 20, adjust, according to the royalty schedule aforesaid, the royalty account of the Licensee as to the total number of running feet so sold, leased and used during such year ending June 20th and on which royalties have been charged and collected by the Licensor and paid by the Licensee during such year; and that the Licensee shall, within twenty (20) days after such adjustment and notice thereuf to it by the Licensor, pay to the Licensor the balance of the royalties due by it to the Licensor according to such adjustment, it being further agreed between the Licensor and Licensee that if the license hereby granted take effect prior to August 31, 1914. on a date other than June 20, there shall, for the purposes of such adjustment and payment. be added to the number of running feet so sold, leased and used by the Licensee and on which royalties have been charged and collected by the Licensor and paid by the Licensee, under the license hereby granted, prior to the next following dune 20, the number of running feet so sold, leased and used by the Licensee and on which royalties have been charged and collected by the Licensor and paid by the Licensee; under the aforesaid license agreement of June 6, 1912, between the preceding June 20 and the date when the license hereby granted takes effect. To. The Licensor and Licensee further mutually covenant and agree that after the license hereby granted takes effect no royalty other than or in addition to that provided for in paragraph 1) shall be charged to or collected from the Licensee by the Licensor under said reissued Letters Patent Nos. 13,329 and 12,192, and said Letters Patent Nos. 629,063 and 707,934, up to June 20, 1913 or during any renewal of this agreement and the licence granted thereby up to Augusl 31, 1014. the date of the expiration ,.| saj(]