The Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC) was a
monopolistic organization formed the basis the major
patents motion picture cameras and films. The ten members of
the company, Trust was called, comprised the leading
members the American motion picture industry. The creation the Motion Picture Patents Company
in 1908 brought end the "unfair and ruinous competition"
which had deprived inventors, like Edison, fair return on
their motion picture patents. Although the agreement was
signed the library his West Orange laboratory, Edison did
not originate the idea promote the Company— was the work
of some his competitors, some whom had put out feelers to
make cross licensing agreements well before the Company was
formed 1908.THE KINETOPHONE
When Hutchison first came work the laboratory the
motion picture business had become major part the Edison
enterprise. 1912 the motion picture department was the most
profitable part the Edison enterprise, Table 9-%,
indicates. during the difficult years after
1910. The MPPC
issued licenses film makers and collected the royalties from
. With phonograph sales decline and serious
problems with the new disc machine, the returns from motion
pictures supported TAE Inc
