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MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-207 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-207 - Formation: Releases of Informational Rights

    (a)    A release is effective without consideration if it is:        (1)    In a record to which the releasing party agrees, such as by manifesting assent, and which identifies the informational rights released; or        (2)    Enforceable under estoppel, implied license, or other law.    (b)    A release continues for the duration of the informational rights released if the release does not specify its duration and does not require affirmative performance after the grant of the release by:        (1)    The party granting the release; or        (2)    The party receiving the release, except for relatively insignificant acts.    (c)    In cases not governed by subsection (b) of this section, the duration of a release is governed by § 22-308 of this title.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-208 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-208 - Adopting Terms of Records

    Except as otherwise provided in § 22-209 of this subtitle, the following rules apply:         (1)    A party adopts the terms of a record, including a standard form, as the terms of the contract if the party agrees to the record, such as by manifesting assent.        (2)    The terms of a record may be adopted pursuant to paragraph (1) of this section after beginning performance or use if the parties had reason to know that their agreement would be represented in whole or part by a later record to be agreed on and there would not be an opportunity to review the record or a copy of it before performance or use begins. If the parties fail to agree to the later terms and did not intend to form a contract unless they so agreed, § 22-202(e) of this subtitle applies.        (3)    If a party adopts the terms of a record, the terms become part of the contract without regard to the party’s knowledge or understanding of individual terms in the record, except for a term that is unenforceable because it fails to satisfy another requirement of this title.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-209 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-209 - Mass-Market License

    (a)    A party adopts the terms of a mass-market license for purposes of § 22-208 of this subtitle only if the party agrees to the license, such as by manifesting assent, before or during the party’s initial performance or use of or access to the information. A term is not part of the license if:        (1)    The term is unconscionable;        (2)    The term is unenforceable, after weighing fundamental public policies, including fundamental public policies concerning competition or innovation, under § 22-105(a) or (b) of this title;        (3)    Subject to § 22-301 of this title, the term conflicts with a term to which the parties to the license have expressly agreed; or        (4)    The term is not available for viewing before and after assent:            (A)    In a printed license; or            (B)    In electronic form that:                (i)    Can be printed or stored for archival and review purposes by the licensee; or                (ii)    Is made available by a licensor to a licensee, at no cost to the licensee, in a printed form on the request of a licensee that is unable to print or store the license for archival and review purposes.    (b)    If a mass-market license or a copy of the license is not available in a manner permitting an opportunity to review by the licensee before the licensee becomes obligated to pay and the licensee does not agree, such as by manifesting assent, to the license after having an opportunity to review, the licensee is entitled to a return under § 22-112 of this title and, in addition, to:        (1)    Reimbursement of any reasonable expenses incurred in complying with the licensor’s instructions for returning or destroying the computer information or, in the absence of instructions, expenses incurred for return postage or similar reasonable expense in returning the computer information; and        (2)    Compensation for any reasonable and foreseeable costs of restoring the licensee’s information processing system to reverse changes in the system caused by the installation, if:            (A)    The installation occurs because information must be installed to enable review of the license; and            (B)    The installation alters the system or information in it but does not restore the system or information after removal of the installed information because the licensee rejected the license.    (c)    In a mass-market transaction, if the licensor does not have an opportunity to review a record containing proposed terms from the licensee before the licensor delivers or becomes obligated to deliver the information, and if the licensor does not agree, such as by manifesting assent, to those terms after having that opportunity, the licensor is entitled to a return.    (d)    A term in a mass-market license that limits the duration of the license shall be conspicuous.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-210 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-210 - Terms of Contract Formed by Conduct

    (a)    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section and subject to § 22-301 of this title, if a contract is formed by conduct of the parties, the terms of the contract are determined by consideration of the terms and conditions to which the parties expressly agreed, course of performance, course of dealing, usage of trade, the nature of the parties’ conduct, the records exchanged, the information or informational rights involved, and all other relevant circumstances. If a court cannot determine the terms of the contract from the foregoing factors, the supplementary principles of this title apply.    (b)    This section does not apply if the parties authenticate a record of the contract or a party agrees, such as by manifesting assent, to the record containing the terms of the other party.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-211 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-211 - Pretransaction Disclosures in Internet-Type Transactions

    This section applies to a licensor that makes its computer information available to a licensee by electronic means from its Internet or similar electronic site. In such a case, the licensor affords an opportunity to review the terms of a standard form license which opportunity satisfies § 22-112(e) of this title with respect to a licensee that acquires the information from that site, if the licensor:         (1)    Makes the standard terms of the license readily available for review by the licensee before the information is delivered or the licensee becomes obligated to pay, whichever occurs first, by:            (A)    Displaying prominently and in close proximity to a description of the computer information, or to instructions or steps for acquiring it, the standard terms or a reference to an electronic location from which they can be readily obtained; or            (B)    Disclosing the availability of the standard terms in a prominent place on the site from which the computer information is offered and promptly furnishing a copy of the standard terms on request before the transfer of the computer information; and        (2)    Does not take affirmative acts to prevent printing or storage of the standard terms for archival or review purposes by the licensee.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-212 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-212 - Efficacy and Commercial Reasonableness of Attribution Procedure

    The efficacy, including the commercial reasonableness, of an attribution procedure is determined by the court. In making this determination, the following rules apply:         (1)    An attribution procedure established by law is effective for transactions within the coverage of the statute or rule.        (2)    Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (1) of this section, commercial reasonableness and effectiveness is determined in light of the purposes of the procedure and the commercial circumstances at the time the parties agreed to or adopted the procedure.        (3)    An attribution procedure may use any security device or method that is commercially reasonable under the circumstances.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-213 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-213 - Determining Attribution

    (a)    An electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance is attributed to a person if it was the act of the person or its electronic agent, or if the person is bound by it under agency or other law. The party relying on attribution of an electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance to another person has the burden of establishing attribution.    (b)    The act of a person may be shown in any manner, including a showing of the efficacy of an attribution procedure that was agreed to or adopted by the parties or established by law.    (c)    The effect of an electronic act attributed to a person under subsection (a) of this section is determined from the context at the time of its creation, execution, or adoption, including the parties’ agreement, if any, or otherwise as provided by law.    (d)    If an attribution procedure exists to detect errors or changes in an electronic authentication, display, message, record, or performance, and was agreed to or adopted by the parties or established by law, and one party conformed to the procedure but the other party did not, and the nonconforming party would have detected the change or error had that party also conformed, the effect of noncompliance is determined by the agreement but, in the absence of agreement, the conforming party may avoid the effect of the error or change.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-214 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-214 - Electronic Error: Consumer Defenses

    (a)    In this section, “electronic error” means an error in an electronic message created by a consumer using an information processing system if a reasonable method to detect and correct or avoid the error was not provided.    (b)    In an automated transaction, a consumer is not bound by an electronic message that the consumer did not intend and which was caused by an electronic error, if the consumer:        (1)    Promptly on learning of the error:            (A)    Notifies the other party of the error; and            (B)    Causes delivery to the other party or, pursuant to reasonable instructions received from the other party, delivers to another person or destroys all copies of the information; and        (2)    Has not used, or received any benefit or value from, the information or caused the information or benefit to be made available to a third party.    (c)    If subsection (b) of this section does not apply, the effect of an electronic error is determined by other law.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-215 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-215 - Electronic Message: When Effective; Effect of Acknowledgment

    (a)    Receipt of an electronic message is effective when received even if no individual is aware of its receipt.    (b)    Receipt of an electronic acknowledgment of an electronic message establishes that the message was received but by itself does not establish that the content sent corresponds to the content received.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-216 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 2 - Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally|Section 22-216 - Idea or Information Submission

    (a)    The following rules apply to a submission of an idea or information for the creation, development, or enhancement of computer information which is not made pursuant to an existing agreement requiring the submission:        (1)    A contract is not formed and is not implied from the mere receipt of an unsolicited submission;        (2)    Engaging in a business, trade, or industry that by custom or practice regularly acquires ideas is not in itself an express or implied solicitation of the information; and        (3)    If the recipient seasonably notifies the person making the submission that the recipient maintains a procedure to receive and review submissions, a contract is formed only if:            (A)    The submission is made and accepted pursuant to that procedure; or            (B)    The recipient expressly agrees to terms concerning the submission.    (b)    An agreement to disclose an idea creates a contract enforceable against the receiving party only if the idea as disclosed is confidential, concrete, and novel to the business, trade, or industry, or the party receiving the disclosure otherwise expressly agreed.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-301 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-301 - Parol or Extrinsic Evidence

    Terms with respect to which confirmatory records of the parties agree or which are otherwise set forth in a record intended by the parties as a final expression of their agreement with respect to terms included therein may not be contradicted by evidence of any previous agreement or of a contemporaneous oral agreement but may be explained or supplemented by:         (1)    Course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade; and        (2)    Evidence of consistent additional terms, unless the court finds the record to have been intended as a complete and exclusive statement of the terms of the agreement.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-302 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-302 - Practical Construction

    (a)    The express terms of an agreement and any course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade must be construed whenever reasonable as consistent with each other. However, if that construction is unreasonable:        (1)    Express terms prevail over course of performance, course of dealing, and usage of trade;        (2)    Course of performance prevails over course of dealing and usage of trade; and        (3)    Course of dealing prevails over usage of trade.    (b)    An applicable usage of trade in the place where any part of performance is to occur must be used in interpreting the agreement as to that part of the performance.    (c)    Evidence of a relevant course of performance, course of dealing, or usage of trade offered by one party in a proceeding is not admissible unless and until the party offering the evidence has given the other party notice that the court finds sufficient to prevent unfair surprise.    (d)    The existence and scope of a usage of trade must be proved as facts.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-303 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-303 - Modification and Rescission

    (a)    An agreement modifying a contract subject to this title needs no consideration to be binding.    (b)    An authenticated record that precludes modification or rescission except by an authenticated record may not otherwise be modified or rescinded. In a standard form supplied by a merchant to a consumer, a term requiring an authenticated record for modification of the contract is not enforceable unless the consumer manifests assent to the term.    (c)    A modification of a contract and the contract as modified must satisfy the requirements of §§ 22–201(a) of this title and 22–307(g) of this subtitle if the contract as modified is within those provisions.    (d)    An attempt at modification or rescission which does not satisfy subsection (b) or (c) of this section may operate as a waiver if § 22–702 of this title is satisfied.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-304 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-304 - Continuing Contractual Terms

    (a)    Terms of an agreement involving successive performances apply to all performances, even if the terms are not displayed or otherwise brought to the attention of a party with respect to each successive performance, unless the terms are modified in accordance with this title or the contract.    (b)    If a contract provides that terms may be changed as to future performances by compliance with a described procedure, a change proposed in good faith pursuant to that procedure becomes part of the contract if the procedure:        (1)    Reasonably notifies the other party of the change; and        (2)    In a mass-market transaction, permits the other party to terminate the contract as to future performance if the change alters a material term and the party in good faith determines that the modification is unacceptable.    (c)    The parties by agreement may determine the standards for reasonable notice unless the agreed standards are manifestly unreasonable in light of the commercial circumstances.    (d)    The enforceability of changes made pursuant to a procedure that does not comply with subsection (b) of this section is determined by the other provisions of this title or other law.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-305 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-305 - Terms to Be Specified

    An agreement that is otherwise sufficiently definite to be a contract is not invalid because it leaves particulars of performance to be specified by one of the parties. If particulars of performance are to be specified by a party, the following rules apply:         (1)    Specification must be made in good faith and within limits set by commercial reasonableness.        (2)    If a specification materially affects the other party’s performance but is not seasonably made, the other party:            (A)    Is excused for any resulting delay in its performance; and            (B)    May perform, suspend performance, or treat the failure to specify as a breach of contract.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-306 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-306 - Performance Under Open Terms

    A performance obligation of a party that cannot be determined from the agreement or from other provisions of this title requires the party to perform in a manner and in a time that is reasonable in light of the commercial circumstances existing at the time of agreement.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-308 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-308 - Duration of Contract

    If an agreement does not specify its duration, to the extent allowed by other law, the following rules apply:         (1)    Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (2) of this section, the agreement is enforceable for a time reasonable in light of the licensed subject matter and commercial circumstances but may be terminated as to future performances at will by either party during that time on giving seasonable notice to the other party.        (2)    The duration of contractual rights to use licensed subject matter is a time reasonable in light of the licensed informational rights and the commercial circumstances. However, subject to cancellation for breach of contract, the duration of the license is perpetual as to the contractual rights and contractual use terms if:            (A)    The license is of a computer program that does not include source code and the license:                (i)    Transfers ownership of a copy; or                (ii)    Delivers a copy for a contract fee the total amount of which is fixed at or before the time of delivery of the copy; or            (B)    The license expressly grants the right to incorporate or use the licensed information or informational rights with information or informational rights from other sources in a combined work for public distribution or public performance.
MD. Commercial Law Code Ann. §  22-309 (2021)
2021 Maryland Statutes|Commercial Law|Title 22 - Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act|Subtitle 3 - Construction; General; Interpretation|Section 22-309 - Agreement for Performance to a Party's Satisfaction

    (a)    Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of this section, an agreement that provides that the performance of one party is to be to the satisfaction or approval of the other party requires performance sufficient to satisfy a reasonable person in the position of the party that must be satisfied.    (b)    Performance must be to the subjective satisfaction of the other party if:        (1)    The agreement expressly so provides, such as by stating that approval is in the “sole discretion” of the party, or words of similar import; or        (2)    The agreement is for informational content to be evaluated in reference to subjective characteristics such as aesthetics, appeal, suitability to taste, or subjective quality.