Re: [d@DCC] Tied selling and DVD players

From: "Wallace J.McLean" <ag737 _-at-_ freenet.carleton.ca>
To: General Copyright Discussions <discuss (at) list.digital-copyright.ca>
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:26:43 -0500

Sub sole nihil novi est.


----- Original Message -----
From: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2005 7:36 pm
Subject: [d@DCC] Tied selling and DVD players
>    As early as 1917, for example, the Supreme Court addressed the 
>    problem of patent misuse when movie projector companies 
> attempted 
>    to 'tie' their films to their projectors unlawfully, forcing 
>    projector buyers to purchase the companies' films as well. See 
>    Motion Picture Patents Co. v. Universal Film Mfg., 243 U.S. 
> 502 
>    (1917).

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