(A) Each cable operator shall indemnify, defend and hold the town, its officers, boards, commissions, agents and employees (collectively the “indemnified parties”) harmless from and against any and all lawsuits, claims, causes of action, actions, liability, demands, damages, judgments, settlements, losses, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees) and costs of any nature that any of the indemnified parties may at any time, directly or indirectly, suffer, sustain or incur arising out of, based upon or in any way connected with the grant of a franchise to a cable operator, the operation of the cable operator’s cable system and/or the act and/or omissions of the cable operator or its agents or employees, whether or not pursuant to this chapter or any franchise granted hereunder.
(B) This indemnity shall apply, without limitation, to any action or cause of action for invasion of privacy, defamation, anti-trust, errors an omissions, theft, fire, violation or infringement of any copyright, trademark, trade names, service mark, patent or any other right of any person whether or not any act or omission complained of is authorized, allowed or prohibited by this chapter or any franchise agreement, but shall exclude any claim or action arising out of the acts of omissions of indemnified parties or related to any town programming or other access programming for which the cable operator is not legally responsible.
(Prior Code, § 13.20.100) (Ord. 96-13.20, passed - -1996)