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 #:
00077
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
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71 sede the earlier agreements until all the testimony in this suit on behalf of the Government had been taken. The modifications effected by the agreements of 1913 are stated in defendants' principal brief, pages 316 et seq. The defendants vigorously assert the lawfulness of every condition and restriction contained in the earlier license agreements, and unless these are pronounced unlawful by this court defendants will undoubtedly replace in the license agreements such conditions as they may have temporarily abandoned in their later agreements. In view of the fact that all the conditions as described in the petition were in force and being observed by the defendants when the petition in this case was filed, they should be declared unlawful. (See authorities cited in our main brief, pp. 242-245.) Mr. Moon's brief contains a curious inaccuracy. He states (p. 34) that Mr. Thomas A. Edison " stands before the bar of this court as a defendant." In this statement he is mistaken. There is no word of evidence in the record connecting Mr. Edison with any of the acts of which the Government complains. It does not appear that he is an officer of any of the defendant companies, nor that he attended any of the meetings at which the unlawful acts were planned. On the other hand, the Government put in evidence Mr. Edison's testimony in an earlier case that he was not the inventor of the film. This evidence was intro