Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice / submitted by M.B. Philip and Francis T. Homer. (1913)

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property of -tlio llqenaee; and that the Xesaoe ohull not dispoae of tho fiaMe outright by sale or ot! crwine, h-ivr: > : only tho right to uutlet or uao the oa:;iO. These 9tate::jC/.tG of ownorohip v.nd condition of ioooini; by the iicenaeea were fair, in order to ponait the lioensoo to xvplevin the uotion ^Lctux^ in tiie event of ita uaauthorized or other injuriouo une. ihfit tho loaaoo shall poralt auch notion picture to bo exliibitod only on motion picture projecting machlnea liconaod by tho • atents Cowpany uni^er its patents ccvering tho saiiia; and tliatthe leasee should not have the right t: sullot auch motion picture until the loaaoo haa entered into an rigreeroent in vrlf^ng with the latent a Coiipany contr.l n J ..r, tor.-r.o and conditions prescribed by it, and only v;hiic tic ..rpliea with tho 3ame and while it roiiiaine in force, Thia looked toward what is known as tho exchange licon3G, to which wo Mfill refer later. There were two otlu.r condition;?, one providing u^ainst ;vl.at is knov;n ua "duping" wliich preventa tho makinti of unauthorized and counterfeit motion pioturaa ; the other, that the trade nark or title ohould not bo ro;toved, t.'.o violation of .-.ny of t)iG foregciqj conditions entitling tho licenaoe to immediato po.iaeaajon of the raoti-n picture. -25