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<section article="gcl" article_name="Commercial Law" number="22-611" title_number="22" title_name="Maryland Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Performance; General; Performance in Delivery of Copies; Special Types of Contracts; Loss and Impossibility; Termination">
  <level label="a">
    <text>If an access contract provides for access over a period of time, the following rules apply:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The licensee’s rights of access are to the information as modified and made commercially available by the licensor from time to time during that period.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A change in the content of the information is a breach of contract only if the change conflicts with an express term of the agreement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Unless it is subject to a contractual use term, information obtained by the licensee is free of any use restriction other than a restriction resulting from the informational rights of another person or other law.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Access must be available:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>At times and in a manner conforming to the express terms of the agreement; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>To the extent not expressly stated in the agreement, at times and in a manner reasonable for the particular type of contract in light of the ordinary standards of the business, trade, or industry.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>In an access contract that gives the licensee a right of access at times substantially of its own choosing during agreed periods, an occasional failure to have access available during those times is not a breach of contract if it is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Consistent with ordinary standards of the business, trade, or industry for the particular type of contract; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Caused by:</text>
      <level label="A">
        <text>Scheduled downtime;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="B">
        <text>Reasonable needs for maintenance;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="C">
        <text>Reasonable periods of failure of equipment, computer programs, or communications; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="D">
        <text>Events reasonably beyond the licensor’s control, and the licensor exercises such commercially reasonable efforts as the circumstances require.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
