Indiana § 24-1-5-1 - Definitions
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§ 24-1-5-1. Definitions
Sec. 1. As used in this chapter:
"Person" includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, societies, trusts, organizations, or corporations.
"Theater" means an establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge.
"Distributor" means a person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale or licensing.
"Exhibitor" means a person engaged in the business of operating one (1) or more theaters.
"Exhibit" or "exhibition" means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge.
"Invitation to bid" or "invite bids" means a written or oral solicitation by a distributor to one (1) or more exhibitors to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture.
"Bid" means a written offer or proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor in response to an invitation to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture.
"Trade screening" means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor at some location within the state which is open to any exhibitor from whom the distributor intends to invite bids or with whom the distributor intends to negotiate for the right to exhibit the motion picture.
"Blind selling" means the bidding or negotiating for, or the offering or agreeing to terms for, the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture before the motion picture has either been trade screened within the state or before such motion picture has been made available for viewing within the state by all exhibitors from whom the distributor is inviting bids or with whom the distributor is negotiating for the right to exhibit the motion picture.
"Run" means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. A "first run" is the first exhibition of a picture in the designated area; a "second run" is the second exhibition; and "subsequent runs" are subsequent exhibitions after a second run.
"Exclusive run" means a run limited to a single theater in a defined geographic area.
As added by Acts 1980, P.L.161, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.8-1993, SEC.337.
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