Terms Used In Indiana Code > Title 24 > Article 1 > Chapter 5 - Motion Picture Fair Competition

• Attorney: includes a counselor or other person authorized to appear and represent a party in an action or special proceeding. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• 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. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• 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. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Distributor: means a person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale or licensing. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• exhibition: means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• Exhibitor: means a person engaged in the business of operating one (1) or more theaters. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• in writing: include printing, lithographing, or other mode of representing words and letters. See Indiana Code 1-1-4-5
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• Person: includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, societies, trusts, organizations, or corporations. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
• Run: means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• Theater: means an establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1
• 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. See Indiana Code 24-1-5-1