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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="14-2901" title_number="14" title_name="Miscellaneous Consumer Protection Provisions" subtitle_number="29" subtitle_name="False Advertising and Related Crimes">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Advertise” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>To publish, circulate, disseminate, or place before the public in any way or through any medium for the purpose of selling merchandise; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Advertising by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Exterior or interior signs, including neon or other electrical signs;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Radio, telephone, or television; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Newspaper, magazine, book, notice, or any other method or material.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Clear and conspicuous” means in a manner that clearly calls attention to the language, including text that is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>In larger type than the surrounding text;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>In a contrasting type, font, or color to the surrounding text; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Set off from the surrounding text by symbols or other marks.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“Digital application or game” means any application or game that a person accesses and manipulates using a specialized electronic gaming device, computer, mobile device, tablet, or other device with a display screen, including any add–ons or additional content for the application or game.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Digital audio work” means a work that results from the fixation of a series of musical, spoken, or other sounds that are transferred electronically, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Prerecorded or live songs;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Music;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Readings of books or other written materials;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Speeches;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Ringtones; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Other sound recordings.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Digital audiovisual work” means a series of related images that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion, together with accompanying sounds.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Digital audiovisual work” includes motion pictures, musicals, videos, news and entertainment programs, and live events.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Digital book” means a work that is generally recognized as a book and is transferred electronically, including a work of fiction or nonfiction.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Digital code” means a code that grants the person holding the code a right to obtain an additional digital good regardless of whether the code is designated as a song code, video code, or book code.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Digital code” includes a code used to access or obtain any specified digital goods, or any additional digital goods that have been previously purchased.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Digital good” means a digital application or game, digital audio work, digital audiovisual work, digital book, or digital code, whether electronically or digitally delivered or accessed.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Digital good” does not include a cable television service, satellite relay television service, or any other distribution of television, video, or radio service.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Person” includes an association, firm, partnership, corporation, or an agent or employee of any of these entities.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <text>“Property”, as used in § 14–2902(a) through (c) of this subtitle, includes:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Merchandise;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Real estate;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Securities;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Employment;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A loan made at interest;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Any contract relating to real estate, securities, service, employment, or the making of loans at interest; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Anything else of value.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
