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 #:
000726
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 12, 2024
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No. Page Date Short Description 89 462 Motion Pict. Biograph Co. Pts. Co. 6 June 1012j Continued from preceding page 2. To manufacture, print and produce positives under No. 12,192 and to lease said positives in the U. S. and its possessions (except insular and Alaska) on film of a greater width than about 1" for use solely in projecting machines under its 13 projecting machine patents or some of them and licensed by the Licensor. 3. To sell or lease positives under No. 12,192 on film of about 1" or less in the insular possessions and Alaska. 4 To sell or lease positives on film of any width in said insular possessions and Alaska and foreign countries. New License alters, modifies and adds to the Agreement of Dec. 18, 1908 No. 20, p. 105, genenrally as follows: (a) Par. 4, p. 109 in reference to exclusively sensitized film omitted. (b) By reason of the waiver of the exclusively sensitized film and the permission to purchase film any where or use any film (par. 25, p. 476 broadening old par. 18, p. 120) a new system of collecting royalty is established under pars. 10 and 11, p. 466-8. (c) May sell raw stock of film, par. 5, p. 113 being omitted from the New Agreement. (d) New conditions of use of motion pictures and copyright provisions added by par. 1.5, p. 471. (e) Scale of minimum prices N. I. Film added. Continued on next page 704