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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 10, § 1902: Blind bidding, 1979

Blind bidding is prohibited in the State. Distributors must include trade-screening date, time, and place in bid invitations for unscreened motion pictures and must give exhibitors reasonable, uniform notice of all trade…

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Jurisdiction: United States — Maine
Structure: 1 provisions
Official identity: Year 1979
Dates: Enacted 1979 · Source version 1 Oct 2025

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Dates: Enacted 1979 · Source version 1 Oct 2025

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“Blind bidding is prohibited in the State. Distributors must include trade-screening date, time, and place in bid invitations for unscreened motion pictures and must give exhibitors reasonable, uniform notice of all trade screenings.”

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1. Prohibition. Blind bidding is hereby prohibited within the State. No bids shall be returnable, no negotiations for the exhibition or licensing of a motion picture shall take place and no license agreement or any of its terms shall be agreed to for the exhibition of any motion picture within the State before the motion picture has been trade screened. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 2. Information to be included in bid. A distributor shall include in each invitation to bid for a motion picture for exhibition within the State, if that motion picture has not already been trade screened, the date, time and place of the trade screening of the motion picture. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).] 3. Notice to exhibitors. A distributor shall provide reasonable and uniform notice to exhibitors within the State of all trade screenings of motion pictures the distributor is distributing. [RR 2023, c. 2, Pt. C, §46 (COR).] 4. Waiver void. Any purported waiver of the requirements of this section shall be void and unenforceable. [PL 1979, c. 266 (NEW).]

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