Maine Revised Statutes, Title 10, § 1901: Definitions, 1979

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms shall have the following meanings. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 1. Bid. "Bid" means a written offer or proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor, in response to an "invitation to bid," stating the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 2. Blind bidding. "Blind bidding" means the solicitation of bidding for, solicitation of negotiation for, or solicitations of offers for or agreeing to terms for the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture if the motion picture has not been trade screened. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 3. Distributor. "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale or licensing. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 4. Exhibit or exhibition. "Exhibit" or "exhibition" means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 5. Exhibitor. "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating one or more theaters. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 6. Invitation to bid. "Invitation to bid" means a written solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one or more exhibitors to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 7. License agreement. "License agreement" means any contract agreement, understanding or condition between a distributor and an exhibitor relating to the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 8. Person. "Person" includes one or more individuals, partnerships, associates, societies, trust or corporations. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 9. Run. "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 the second run. "Exclusive run" is any run limited to a single theater in a defined geographic area and a "nonexclusive run" is any run in more than one theater in a defined geographic area. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 10. Theater. "Theater" means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 11. Trade screening. "Trade screening" means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor at some location within the metropolitan area in which is located a distributor's sales or film distributing facility serving the theater, which is open to any exhibitor interested in exhibiting the motion picture. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).]