In an opinion issued this week, U.S. Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter concluded that a court would likely find Maryland’s recently passed library e-book law to be preempted by federal copyright law under a legal doctrine known as “conflict preemption.” But in her 9-page opinion, Perlmutter did not find the Maryland law to be “expressly” preempted by the Copyright Act, as opponents of the law have contended
Source: Copyright Office Weighs in on Maryland Library E-book Law