United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others (1914)

Record Details:

Title:
United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others
Date:
1914
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : United States. Government Printing Office
Volume:
United States of America v. Motion Picture Patents Company and others
Leaf #:
00015
Language:
English
Collection:
Government & Law and Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

we have to consider whether this requirement respecting the amount of film to be handled per month was a legal and reasonable condition attached to the use of the film and lawfully inserted in the exchange agreement. The proof shows that this restriction was not imposed by the owner of the patent, but was devised and approved by the rental exchanges and was at their instance inserted in the license agreement, Mr. Dyer, a witness for defendants (Vol. Ill, 1484, fol. 2), testified that the $1,200 requirement contained in the rules of the Film Service Association, and made a part of the Edison exchange licenses of 1908, had been drawn up by the exchanges. He stated that in January, 1909, the change from $1,200 to $2,500 was made and incorporated in the exchange licenses issued by the Patents Company at the instance of the exchangemen. At Vol. Ill, 1485, fol. 2, he said: My recollection is that this increase was made at the suggestion and request of the exchangemen themselves, who represented to us that at that time the exchange that did a smaller business than $2,500 per month in the purchase of films would not be selfsustaining, and therefore would be open to the temptation of objectionable practices, particularly " duping,"1 which was a common practice at that time. 1 Duping had been largely practised by the defendants before they formed the combination (Swanson I, 321, fol. 4-322).