As used in sections 1333.05 to 1333.07 of the Revised Code:
- (A) "Theater" means any establishment in which motion pictures are exhibited regularly to the public for a charge.
- (B) "Distributor" means any person engaged in the business of renting, selling, or licensing motion pictures to exhibitors.
- (C) "Exhibitor" means any person engaged in the business of operating a theater in this state.
- (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 in this state.
- (F) "Bid" means a written or oral proposal by an exhibitor to a distributor, which proposal is in response to an invitation to bid or negotiate and states the terms under which the exhibitor will agree to exhibit a motion picture in this state.
- (G) "License agreement" means any contract between a distributor and an exhibitor for the exhibition of a motion picture by the exhibitor in this state.
- (H) "Trade screening" means the showing of a motion picture by a distributor in one of the five municipal corporations within this state having the largest population, which showing is open to any exhibitor interested in exhibiting the motion picture.
- (I) "Blind bidding" means bidding, negotiating, offering terms, accepting a bid, or agreeing to terms for the purpose of entering into a license agreement prior to a trade screening of the motion picture that is the subject of the agreement.
- (J) "Run" means the continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a defined geographic area for a specified period of time. A "first run" means the initial exhibition of a motion picture in a designated geographic area for a specified period of time. A "subsequent run" means any continuous exhibition of a motion picture in a designated geographic area for a specified period of time after the first run.