RIGHTS IN FILMS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 14, 1 October 1929, Page 8

RIGHTS IN FILMS

COMPANIES AT VARIANCE NEGOTIATIONS TERMINATED BERLIN, Sept. 17. The negotiations between the Western Electric Company, United States, and the German talking' film combine, represented ■by the Klangtonls Company, have been broken off. . The Klangtobis Company has issued a statement, saying: —“As the Western Electric claimed exclusive rights in all English-speaking countries,,., without considering our existing rights in England, we considered that a continuation of negotiations-would be useless.” In nearly all European countries the strength of the patents held by the Klaiigtobis Company is such that the American apparatus, .cannot be used there. American apparatus was legally seized, at the Forum picture house, in' Buda Pest, and similar action will follow in other countries. The Klangtobis Company recently made a singing and talking film in German < and English Klangtobis is the German firm which manufactures a high-class “talkie” projecting apparatus. The name of the company is a compound word,: the first syllable of which means sound, the second syllable .being probably a trade mark or the uajpo of t in individual.