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The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC, also known as the Edison Trust), founded in December 1908 and effectively terminated in 1915 after it lost a federal antitrust suit, was a trust of all the major US film companies and local foreign-branches (Edison, Biograph, Vitagraph, Essanay, Selig Polyscope, Lubin Manufacturing, Kalem Company, Star ...
United States v. Motion Picture Patents Co., 225 F. 800 (E.D. Pa. 1915), was a civil antitrust prosecution overlapping to some extent with the issues in the decision in the Supreme Court's Motion Picture Patents case.
Notorious for its iron-fisted business methods, the Motion Picture Patent Company (MPPC) attempted to gain complete control of the United States movie-making industry in the early 1900s.
This company was incorporated in New Jersey on September 9, 1908, by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company. It pooled the requisite and previously competing patents and licensing arrangements in the manufacture and projection of motion pictures.
The Motion Picture Patents Company was set up to act as a cartel and control the industry through an interlocking system of patents and licences. It identified four main parts to the industry, and initially saw control of the first two as most important. Later it was to place a higher priority on the regulation of distribution. The areas
- John Izod
- 1988
The Motion Picture Patents Company: A monopoly. Abstract. My interest in the subject of motion pictures extends far past the development and the significance of the Motion Picture Patents Company.
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The Motion Picture Patents Company. Established film producers feared excessive competition from these new firms. They also felt threatened by European productions that were being imported in increasing numbers from a growing number of sources.
