When used in this article:
(a) "Theater" means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited to the public regularly for a charge.
(b) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of distributing or supplying motion pictures to exhibitors by rental or licensing.
(c) "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating one or more theaters.
(d) "Exhibit" or "exhibition" means showing a motion picture to the public for a charge.
(e) "Invitation to bid" means a written or oral solicitation or invitation by a distributor to one or more exhibitors to bid or negotiate for the right to exhibit a motion picture.
(f) "Bid" means a written or oral offer or proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor in response to an invitation to bid or otherwise stating the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture.
(g) "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.
(h) "Trade screening" means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor at a location within the State or in the Film Exchange Center in the State of North Carolina which is open to any exhibitor interested in exhibiting the motion picture.
(i) "Blind bidding" means the bidding for, negotiating for or offering or agreeing to terms for the licensing or exhibition of a motion picture if the motion picture has not been trade screened within the State or in the Film Exchange Center in the State of North Carolina before any such event has occurred.
(j) "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.
HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 523 Section 2; 1979 Act No. 33 Sections 1, 2.