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Ohio Rev. Code § 1333.05 (2026)

Motion picture license agreement definitions

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Effective:
October 23, 1978
Latest Legislation:
House Bill 806 - 112th General Assembly
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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.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 6 cases, 1958–1986 · leading case: Seven Gables Corp. v. MGM/UA Ent. Co., 721 P.2d 1 (Wash. 1986).
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Seven Gables Corp. v. MGM/UA Ent. Co., 721 P.2d 1 (Wash. 1986). · cites it 6× “) Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 1333.05 (F) (Page 1979); Pa.”
Allied Artists Pictures Corp. v. Rhodes, 496 F. Supp. 408 (S.D. Ohio 1980). · cites it 6× “Impact of R.C. 1333.05- 07 on Motion Picture Industry: In General Numerous legal and factual issues have been raised in this case concerning the im *421 pact of the Ohio statutes on prior practice within the industry.”
Allied Artists Pictures Corp. v. Rhodes, 473 F. Supp. 560 (S.D. Ohio 1979). · cites it 4× “Plaintiffs seek to have declared unconstitutional Sections 1333.05,1333.06 and 1833.-07 of the Ohio Revised Code (hereafter referred to as the Act).”
Hudson Distributors, Inc. v. Upjohn Co., 176 N.E.2d 236 (Ohio Ct. App. 8th Dist. 1961). “The historical background of the Ohio Fair Trade Act began in 1936 upon the passage of what are now known as Sections 1333.05 to 1333.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code.”
Hudson Distributors, Inc. v. Upjohn Co., 174 Ohio St. (N.S.) 487 (Ohio 1963). · cites it 2× “The writer dissents for the reason that, in his opinion, the new Fair Trade Act (Section 1333.05 et seq., Revised Code) possesses the same vulnerability as did the old act since, in effect, it attempts arbitrarily to bind nonsigners of price-fixing contracts by artificial and…”
Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. v. Bargain Fair, Inc., 167 Ohio St. (N.S.) 182 (Ohio 1958). ““Whoever violates Sections 1333.05 to 1333.10, inclusive, of the Revised Code is liable to any retailer of such commodity or to any other person injured thereby, including the producer of such commodity.”
Ohio Rev. Code § 1333.05(1): 1 case
Allied Artists Pictures Corp. v. Rhodes, 496 F. Supp. 408 (S.D. Ohio 1980). “Impact of R.C. 1333.05- 07 on Motion Picture Industry: In General Numerous legal and factual issues have been raised in this case concerning the im *421 pact of the Ohio statutes on prior practice within the industry.”
Ohio Rev. Code § 1333.05(H): 1 case
Allied Artists Pictures Corp. v. Rhodes, 496 F. Supp. 408 (S.D. Ohio 1980). “Impact of R.C. 1333.05- 07 on Motion Picture Industry: In General Numerous legal and factual issues have been raised in this case concerning the im *421 pact of the Ohio statutes on prior practice within the industry.”
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