The problems raised by Collin are also one of the places where Otto Kahn is distressed.

The birth of Hollywood was actually originally to fight Edison's patent monopoly.

As early as 1891, Edison and his assistant William Dixon completed the invention of the event film screenplay and applied for a patent.

In 1909, he united the nine production companies at the time to set up the Edison Film Patent Alliance and put away the patent authorization fee. As long as the cinema wants to put a movie, he needs to pay a patent fee of $ 5 a week;

To pay 5,000 US dollars, without paying fees, that is, infringement.

After the establishment of a film patent alliance, Edison not only sued these people who filmed movies and films everywhere, but also relying on himself who was the only person to put on the movie, copy the films of others everywhere, without paying any copyright fees.

Even in order to monitor the filmmakers, Edison has also established a strict intelligence network to investigate who sneaks the movie without patent authorization.

Then ask the thug to break into the studio, holding a gun in the unauthorized film projector, a firing.

Under the oppression of Edison, the filmmaker escaped the New Jersey of Edison's Dajian Camp and ran to Los Angeles on the west coast of the United States.

Of course, the Los Angeles's stronghold was initially selected as the Hollywood base, but it was not because of the weather and scenery here. It was purely close to Mexico. If Edison really sent someone, it would also be convenient to escape.

But fortunately, this group of filmmakers did not wait until Edison's patent patent.

On the contrary, because of what Edison and its patent company do, monopoly has formed.

In 1915, with the pronouncement of the Supreme Court, the patent company founded by Edison was also dissolved.

This is because the "antitrust method" of the United States in the film industry is the first to use.

It is precisely because of the fall of Edison that this group of filmmakers can go in the early years, and in the later years, with their own tough means, they have reached the center of the film industry.

monopoly.

The Dragon Slaughter finally became a dragon, and this was also confirmed in the film industry.

As the best among them, Paramount has made the monopoly to the extreme. Through mergers, it acquires small companies and formed a movie that integrates movies, distributed, and the display business.
Chapter completed!