Encyclopedia > MPPC

  Article Content

MPPC

MPPC stands for Motion Picture Patents Company, also known as the Edison Trust[?], also known as the First Oligopoly[?]. It was a trust of all the major film companies and the biggest supplier of raw film, Eastman Kodak. The reason for it's decline are manifold. The most important ones are the misjudgement of consumer interest and the quick rise of the so-called Independents, who later became the Second Oligopoly[?]. There were also US Supreme Court decisions, in particular the one in 1912, which cancelled the patent on raw film, the one in 1915, which cancelled all MPPC patents and the Sherman Antitrust Act in 1917, which ended the oligopoly, but at that time, the MPPC was already defeated.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Digital Rights Management

... DRM initiatives have been proposed in recent years which could prove more difficult to circumvent, including copy-prevention ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39 ms