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)

Record Details:

Title:
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.
Date:
1913
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Department of Justice
Volume:
Memorandum for the the Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company concerning the investigation of their business by the Department of Justice
Leaf #:
00059
Language:
English
Collection:
Early Cinema and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 30, 2023
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the same undor its patents. ThBy vere» however, compelled to place on nich machinos a plii-te having on it a aerial numbor , the dates of the patents under w/ij.flh '.t vraa liconaod, nn d the following: ••The sal© and nurchnse of thii m'lc hire gives only tho ri-^ht to u 30 it oolely with njoving pictures ccntainiim thn invontion of relo'iued patent number IT, 19^, leased ly r liconeea of the 'notion iMcture i'atonta Company, the ovmer r. f tho abovo patents ind reicauod patent, whiln it ovms 3a.id pntenta, and upon terua to be fixed by tho i-iotion Picture Patents Crmpany and compiled with ty the user while it ir in u 90 and while the L'otion Picture Patents Gompnny owna nai'.l putentn. The removal or dofaconent of th5a plrtto torrdnatea the ri^^ht t 0 u 90 tVda Macl^ine." The only terns fixed ly tho Patent a Company which have over been exacted iian boon tho pay:rtOnt to it of v2. a w«ok for the use of oacli exhibiting machine covered by its patents. At the tino the liconsea wero granted , neither the Annat Company nor tho Biogrn?h Company nor tho aenignor to it 0 f t ho Lathain patent, had mixnuf actured oraold any projoctinjj machines or authori 7.edanyono olae to do 00, containing the Invent iona nf tho various patents rof erred to. A largo nutnbor of project ng rnachinea rere, however, in une, r/hlch hod been made in infringement of tlieae projecting tnachina p^tonts before they wero acquired by the Patents Company. Those wnre alao pen.jitted t'' be used by tho Patonts Company lololy with i.iOtion pictures which it authorized its liconoeos to loaon, and on -27