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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="22-203" title_number="22" title_name="Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Formation and Terms; Formation of a Contract; Terms of Records; Electronic Contracts: Generally">
  <text>Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or the circumstances:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>An offer to make a contract invites acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable under the circumstances.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>An order or other offer to acquire a copy for prompt or current delivery invites acceptance by either a prompt promise to ship or a prompt or current shipment of a conforming or nonconforming copy. However, a shipment of a nonconforming copy is not an acceptance if the licensor seasonably notifies the licensee that the shipment is offered only as an accommodation to the licensee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>If the beginning of a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance, an offeror that is not notified of acceptance or performance within a reasonable time may treat the offer as having lapsed before acceptance.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>If an offer in an electronic message evokes an electronic message accepting the offer, a contract is formed:</text>
    <level label="A">
      <text>When an electronic acceptance is received; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="B">
      <text>If the response consists of beginning performance, full performance, or giving access to information, when the performance is received or the access is enabled and necessary access materials are received.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
