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- Title
THE PARAMOUNT DECREES RECONSIDERED.
- Authors
Conant, Michael
- Abstract
The article reviews the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in the Paramount case, a civil antitrust action against eight major motion picture distributors, among them five major producer-distributors, including Paramount Pictures, Twentieth Century-Fox, and Warner Brothers. The 1946 decree prohibited the defendants as distributors from engaging in, among others, fixing admission prices in film licenses and maintaining systems of clearances. The author says a much freer market was created after the decrees, and Paramount defendants lost control of motion picture production and became primarily lessors of studio space and financiers of independent producers. Industry self-censorship and the great impact of television programs on the motion picture industry are among the topics discussed.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGAL judgments; ANTITRUST law; MOTION picture distributors; PARAMOUNT Pictures Corp.; TWENTIETH Century Fox Film Corp.; UNITED States. Supreme Court; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law)
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1981, Vol 44, Issue 4, p79
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1191225