By Lauren Berg (June 13, 2022, 10:58 PM EDT) — A Maryland federal choose on Monday declared a state regulation requiring that digital books licensed by publishers to the general public should even be licensed to public libraries on “cheap phrases” is “unconstitutional and unenforceable” as a result of it conflicts with the Copyright Act, however stopped in need of granting a everlasting injunction.
U.S. District Choose Deborah L. Boardman in a six-page order issued a declaratory judgment that the state regulation conflicts with and is preempted by the federal Copyright Act, however denied the Affiliation of American Publishers’ request for a everlasting injunction, agreeing with the state that the declaratory judgment is sufficient to defend…
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