• Rights

    Definition of rights used on BidSlate®

Ancillary Rights |means Airlines, Ships, and Hotels exploitation of the Picture.
Airlines

Airlines means exploitation of the Picture only for direct exhibition in airplanes that are operated by an airline flying the flag of any country in the Territory for which Airlines exploitation is granted, but excluding airlines that are customarily licensed from a location outside the Territory or that are only serviced in but do not fly the flag of a country in the Territory.

Ships

Ships means exploitation of the Picture only for direct exhibition in sea or ocean going vessels that are operated by a shipping line flying the flag of any country in the Territory for which Ships exploitation is granted, but excluding shipping lines that are customarily licensed from a location outside the Territory or that are only serviced in but do not fly the flag of a country in the Territory.

Hotels

Hotels means exploitation of the Picture only for direct exhibition in temporary or permanent living places, such as hotels, motels, apartment complexes, co-operatives or condominium projects, by means of closed-circuit television systems where the telecast originates within or in the immediate vicinity of such living places.

Free TV Rights |means Terrestrial Free TV, Cable Free TV, and Satellite Free TV exploitation of the Picture but does not include any form of Pay-Per-View, Pay TV, or Internet for of exploitation of the Picture.
Terrestrial Free TV

Terrestrial Free TV means over-the-air broadcast by Hertzian waves of the Picture for television reception in private living places without a charge to the viewer for the privilege of viewing the Picture, provided that for this purpose government television assessments or taxes (but not a charge for Pay-Per-View or Pay TV) will not be deemed a charge to the viewer.

Cable Free TV

Cable Free TV means the originating transmission by coaxial or fiber-optic cable of the Picture for television reception in private living places without a charge to the viewer for the privilege of viewing the embodied Picture, provided that for this purpose neither government television assessments or taxes nor the regular periodic service charges (but not a charge for Pay-Per-View or Pay TV) paid by a subscriber to a cable television system will be deemed a charge to the viewer.

Satellite Free TV

Satellite Free TV means the uplink broadcast to a satellite and its downlink broadcast to terrestrial satellite reception dishes of the Picture for television viewing in private living places located in the immediate vicinity of a viewer’s reception dish without a charge to the viewer for the privilege of viewing the embodied Picture, provided that for this purpose government satellite dish or television assessments or taxes (but not a charge for Pay-Per-View or Pay TV) will not be deemed a charge to the viewer.

Home Video Rights |means Home Video Rental, Home Video Sell-Through, and Commercial Home Video exploitation of a Videogram embodying the Picture but does not include and form of Internet exploitation of the Picture. "Videogram" means any type of video cassette, compact disc, disc, Blu-ray Disc, DVD or video disc designed to be used on a special purpose electronic device that is solely dedicated for private viewing of a Picture on a computer monitor or television screen in a substantially linear manner.
Home Video Rental

Home Video Rental means exploitation of a Videogram embodying the Picture that is rented to the viewer only for non-public viewing of the embodied the Picture in a linear form within a private living place where no admission fee is charged for such viewing.

Home Video Sell-Through

Home Video Sell-Through means exploitation of a Videogram embodying the Picture that is sold to the viewer only for non-public viewing of the embodied the Picture in a linear form within a private living place where no admission fee is charged for such viewing.

Commercial Home Video

Commercial Home Video means direct linear exhibition before an audience of a Videogram embodying the Picture at the facilities of either organizations not primarily engaged in the business of exhibiting motion pictures, such as in educational organizations, churches, restaurants, bars, clubs, trains, libraries, oil rigs and oil fields, or non-profit entities or governmental bodies such as in embassies, military bases, military vessels and other governmental facilities flying the flag of the licensed territory, but only to the extent that such exploitation is not otherwise utilized in the licensed Territory as a form of Non-Theatrical exploitation. Commercial Home Video does not include Non-Theatrical, Film Festivals, Airlines, Ships or Hotels exploitation, or any form of making the Picture available over the Internet.

Internet Rights |means Internet Downloading and Internet Streaming exploitation of a Motion Picture but does not include any form of Pay-Per-View, Home Video, Pay TV, or Free TV exploitation of the Picture. Internet means the interconnected facilities of a publicly available communications network which uses Internet Protocol for data transmission to Computers (including Mobile Devices) connected to that network. “Mobile Device” means a mobile electronic device a substantial purpose of which is facilitating telephonic or text communication, digital photography or data storage and which customarily fits in a human hand, and which incorporates functionality that allows viewing of the Picture copy. Mobile Device includes a personal mobile phone, personal digital assistant and other similar device.
Internet Downloading

Internet Downloading means making available publicly the Picture on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet (including a wireless system) in a manner that allows its transmission to an authorized computer or authorized Mobile Device for making another exact digital copy of the embodied Picture and retaining that copy for personal use for more than a transient period of time after completion of transmission. Internet Downloading does not include any form of Internet Streaming.

Internet Streaming

Internet Streaming means making available publicly a digital Picture copy on the World Wide Web portion of the Internet (including a wireless system) in a manner that allows continuous viewing of the copy of the embodied Picture on an authorized computer or authorized Mobile Device in a substantially linear form substantially simultaneously with the transmission of such copy over the Internet but which does not allow making another digital copy except for a transient period of time necessary to facilitate such viewing. Internet Streaming does not include any form of Internet Downloading.

Pay TV Rights |means Terrestrial Pay TV, Cable Pay TV, and Satellite Pay TV exploitation of the Picture but does no include any form of Pay-Per_View, Free TV or Internet exploitation of a Motion Picture.
Terrestrial Pay TV

Terrestrial Pay TV means over-the-air broadcast of the Picture by means of encoded Hertzian waves for television reception where a charge is made: (i) to viewers in private living places for use of a decoding device to view a channel that broadcasts the Picture along with other programming; or (ii) to the operator of a hotel or similar temporary living place located distant from where the broadcast signal originated for use of a decoding device to receive a channel that broadcasts the Picture and other programming and retransmit it throughout the temporary living place for viewing in private rooms.

Cable Pay TV

Cable Pay TV means an originating transmission of the Picture by means of an encoded signal over cable for television reception where a charge is made: (i) to viewers in private living places for use of a decoding device to view a channel that transmits the Picture along with other programming; or (ii) to the operator of a hotel or similar temporary living place located distant from where the broadcast signal originated for use of a decoding device to receive a channel that broadcasts the Picture and other programming and retransmit it throughout the temporary living place for viewing in private rooms.

Satellite Pay TV

Satellite Pay TV means the uplink broadcast of the Picture by means of an encoded signal to a satellite and its downlink broadcast to terrestrial satellite reception dishes for television viewing located in the immediate vicinity of the reception dishes where a charge is made: (i) to viewers in private living places for use of a decoding device to view a channel that broadcasts the Picture along with other programming; or (ii) to the operator of a hotel or similar temporary living place located distant from where the broadcast signal originated for use of a decoding device to receive a channel that broadcasts the Picture and other programming and retransmit it throughout the temporary living place for viewing in private rooms.

Pay-Per-View (PPV) Rights |means Residential PPV, Non-Residential PPV, and Video-On-Demand (VOD) exploitation of the Picture but does not include any form of Home Video, Pay TV or Free TV of the Picture.
Residential PPV

Residential PPV means the broadcast of the Picture by means of an encoded signal for television reception in homes or similar permanent living places where a charge is made to the viewer for the right to use a decoding device to view the broadcast of the Picture at a time designated by the broadcaster for each viewing.

Non-Residential PPV

Non-Residential PPV means the broadcast of the Picture by means of an encoded signal for television reception in hotels or similar temporary living places where a charge is made to the viewer for the right to use a decoding device to view the broadcast of the Picture at a time designated by the broadcaster for each viewing.

Video-On-Demand (VOD)

Video-On-Demand (VOD) means the transmission of the Picture by means of an encoded signal for television reception in homes and similar permanent living places where a charge is made to the viewer for the right to use a decoding device to view the Picture at a time selected by the viewer for each viewing.

Theatrical Rights |means Theatrical, Non-Theatrical, and Film Festivals exploitation of the Picture.
Theatrical

Theatrical means exploitation of the Picture only for direct exhibition in conventional theaters, licensed as such in the place where the exhibition occurs, that are open to the general public on a regularly scheduled basis and that charge an admission fee to view the Picture.

Non-Theatrical

Non-Theatrical means exploitation of the Picture only for direct exhibition before an audience by and at the facilities of either organizations not primarily engaged in the business of exhibiting motion pictures, educational organizations, churches, restaurants, bars, clubs, trains, libraries, oil rigs and oil fields, or non-profit entities or governmental bodies such as in embassies, military bases, military vessels and other governmental facilities flying the flag of the licensed territory. Non-Theatrical does not include Commercial Video, Airline, Ship or Hotel exploitation.

Film Festivals

Film Festivals means exploitation of the Picture only for direct exhibition before an audience by and at the facilities of film festival organizations.