Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 47 > Chapter 25 > Part 7 - Motion Picture Fair Competition

• 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, stating the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Blind bidding: means the bidding for, negotiating for, or offering or agreeing to terms for the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture at any time before such motion picture has either been trade screened or before such motion picture, at the option of the distributor, has otherwise been made available for viewing within Tennessee by all exhibitors from whom the distributor is soliciting bids or with whom the distributor is negotiating for the right to exhibit such motion picture. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Distributor: means any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale, or licensing. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• 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 Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Exhibitor: means any person engaged in the business of operating one (1) or more theatres. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• 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. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Person: includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, societies, trusts, organizations, or corporations. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Run: means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Theatre: means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• Trade screening: means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor at the location of the film exchange(s) that distributes the distributor's picture(s) in Tennessee, which is open to any exhibitor from whom the distributor intends to solicit bids or with whom the distributor intends to negotiate for the right to exhibit the motion picture. See Tennessee Code 47-25-702
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105