2014 Tennessee Code
Title 47 - Commercial Instruments And Transactions
Chapter 25 - Trade Practices
Part 7 - Motion Picture Fair Competition
§ 47-25-702 - Part definitions.

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "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;

(2) "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;

(3) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental, sale, or licensing;

(4) "Exhibit" or "exhibition" means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge;

(5) "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating one (1) or more theatres;

(6) "Invitation to bid" means a written or oral solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one (1) or more exhibitors to bid for the right to exhibit a motion picture;

(7) "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;

(8) "Person" includes one (1) or more individuals, partnerships, associations, societies, trusts, organizations, or corporations;

(9) "Run" means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. "First run" is the first exhibition of a picture in the designated area; "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 theatre in a defined geographic area, and a "nonexclusive run" is any run in more than one (1) theatre in a defined geographic area;

(10) "Theatre" means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge; and

(11) "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.