Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Digital Millennium Copyright Act
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
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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
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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
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DMCA's author says the DMCA is a failure, blames record industry
Boing Boing 2007
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The DMCA is an anti-everything law inspired, if not actually drafted (as many believe) by ex-RIAA boss Hilary Rosen.
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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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