DMCA

English

Proper noun

DMCA

1. (US law) Initialism of Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
   • 2001, Charles H. Kennedy, An introduction to U.S. telecommunications law:

     The DMCA also gives the targets of notice-and-takedown complaints a limited opportunity to have access to their materials restored.

Verb

DMCA (third-person singular simple present DMCAs, present participle DMCAing, simple past and past participle DMCAed or DMCA'd)

1. (informal, transitive, Internet) To serve a Digital Millennium Copyright Act notification against, so as to have infringing material taken down.

   The record label DMCAed several Web sites that were hosting copyrighted song lyrics.

Anagrams

• CADM, CDMA, MCAD, MCDA, MDAC