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cyberlaw

cyberlaw noun: law as it relates to the Internet and computing offences, covering such issues as intellectual property and the blurring of international boundaries.

Noun

cyberlaw (countable and uncountable, plural cyberlaws)

  1. (Internet) Law as it relates to the Internet and computing offences, covering such issues as intellectual property and the blurring of international boundaries.
    • In a recent article in Nature magazine, AI research^([sic]) Kate Crawford and cyberlaw professor Ryan Calo warned that the new wave of excitement about intelligent design was creating dangerous blindspots when it came to the social knock-on effects of replacing humans with robots.2017 April 18, Philip Oltermann, “Jürgen Schmidhuber on the robot future: ‘They will pay as much attention to us as we do to ants'”, in The Guardian, retrieved 30 Jul 2021

Forms of cyberlaw

pluralcyberlaws

Origin of cyberlaw

From cyber- + law.

Questions about cyberlaw

What does cyberlaw mean?
Cyberlaw means law as it relates to the Internet and computing offences, covering such issues as intellectual property and the blurring of international boundaries.
What part of speech is cyberlaw?
Cyberlaw is a noun.
What is the plural of cyberlaw?
The plural of cyberlaw is cyberlaws.

Words near cyberlaw in the dictionary

  1. cyberland
  2. cyberlandscape
  3. cyberlandscapes
  4. cyberlanguage
  5. cyberlaundering
  6. cyberlaw
  7. cyberlaws
  8. cyberlawyer
  9. cyberlawyers
  10. cyberlearning
  11. cyberlegal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cyberlaw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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