Court Asked to Delay Maryland Law Requiring E-Book Distribution - Bloomberg Law

The American Association of Publishers Inc. filed for a preliminary injunction preventing Maryland from starting to enforce a law requiring publishers to distribute digital works to public libraries.

The AAP previously sued Maryland, saying that the new law is preempted by the Copyright Act.

The AAP, whose members include Harper Collins Publishers Worldwide and Cambridge University Press, said stopping the law from going into effect would serve the public interest, according to the motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

The law requires publishers to distribute electronic books and other digital literary works to Maryland ...

source: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/court-asked-to-delay-maryland-law-requiring-e-book-distribution

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