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House passes bill aimed at limiting onerous ebook/audiobook license terms for libraries; trigger delayed effect
Summary
After hours of debate and failed amendments, the House passed a measure to bar libraries that accept state funding from agreeing to certain restrictive ebook/audiobook license terms; sponsors added a trigger so the law becomes effective only after other states with a combined population of 7,000,000 adopt substantially similar laws.
The Connecticut House approved Senate Bill 1234, a measure intended to curb contractual terms that public libraries and other state‑funded libraries say make ebooks and audiobooks expensive and short‑lived in their collections. Representative Blumenthal, sponsor of the measure on the floor, said publishers routinely require terms that limit a library’s ability to loan an electronic title (for example, a lender‑imposed cap on the number of loans…
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