Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
- Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
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n.
A federal law enacted in 1999 that makes cybersquatting a wrongful act subject to civil liability.
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.
Amy Hackney Blackwell.
2008.
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