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DMCA

American  

abbreviation

  1. Digital Millennium Copyright Act: an act of Congress (1998) that adapted copyright law to digital materials and technologies.


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The web had rules — you cannot put up illegal content or it would get taken down, DMCA, copyright, and all this other stuff — but they were rules built through democratic, legislative processes.

From The Verge • Apr. 12, 2022

And, we talked a lot about copyright law: the current copyright law in the United States was passed in 1976, with some updates in 1998 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, or DMCA.

From The Verge • Feb. 22, 2022

That’s why EFF has filed a lawsuit against the US government seeking to invalidate Section 1201 of the DMCA.

From The Guardian • Sep. 8, 2016

"That's a problem for the industry, but not one that will be solved by misguided attacks on YouTube and the DMCA."

From BBC • Jun. 21, 2016

The subject of that story line is the best- known example of contemporary attempts to control the digital world, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or DMCA.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James