Digital millennium copyright act
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law passed in 1998 that implements two 1996 World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) treaties: the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty. The DMCA criminalizes production and dissemination of technology that can circumvent measures taken to protect copyrighted works. It also heightens the penalties for copyright infringement on the Internet.