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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • abbreviation Digital Millennium Copyright Act

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  • initialism US law Digital Millennium Copyright Act
  • verb informal, transitive, Internet To serve a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notification against, so as to have infringing material taken down.

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Examples

  • He seems to think that the Safe Harbor provision of the DMCA is the operative statute, with Google not able to play both sides of it.

    Viacom vs. Google/YouTube, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Through the DMCA is appears that a copyright holder, without due process, can force a third party to deprive an alleged infringer to post content.

    Bits Debate: Should Internet Providers Block Copyrighted Works? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • DMCA's author says the DMCA is a failure, blames record industry

    Boing Boing 2007

  • But they said it, and now we have to live with what they said, and for those of us who think the DMCA is a bad statute, Eldred creates a new argument for its repeal or for a constitutional challenge.

    Balkinization 2003

  • The First Amendment argument against the DMCA is actually a little trickier, and that may be what leads Orin to see a potential problem in the argument.

    Balkinization 2003

  • But they said it, and now we have to live with what they said, and for those of us who think the DMCA is a bad statute, Eldred creates a new argument for its repeal or for a constitutional challenge.

    Balkinization 2003

  • The First Amendment argument against the DMCA is actually a little trickier, and that may be what leads Orin to see a potential problem in the argument.

    Balkinization 2003

  • Why the DMCA is brought up at all is a mystery to me, because this should fall under the law that already covers unauthorized derivative works, instead of the DMCA which mostly covers encryption and copy protection circumvention.

    Let the iPhones run free (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • The DMCA is an anti-everything law inspired, if not actually drafted (as many believe) by ex-RIAA boss Hilary Rosen.

    Hitler ‘Downfall’ DMCA spoof video 2009

  • If it is, the DMCA is irrelevant and has no speed-bump effect at all.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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