What does a Motion Picture Patents Company do?

They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Motion Picture Patents Company, trust of 10 film producers and distributors who attempted to gain complete control of the motion-picture industry in the United States from 1908 to 1912.

Who were the original members of the Motion Picture Patents Company?

Motion Picture Patents Company, trust of 10 film producers and distributors who attempted to gain complete control of the motion-picture industry in the United States from 1908 to 1912. The original members were the American companies Edison, Vitagraph, Biograph, Essanay, Selig, Lubin, and Kalem; and the French companies Pathé, Méliès, and Gaumont.

What happened in Motion Picture Patents Co v United States?

Motion Picture Patents Co. et al. Appeal dismissed, Motion Picture Patents Co. v. United States, 247 U.S. 524 (1918). 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.