DMCA Takedowns

Background

GitHub handles Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims with a goal to maximize the availability of code by limiting disruption for legitimate projects. Accordingly, we designed our DMCA Takedown Policy to safeguard developer interests against overreaching and ambiguous takedown requests. Each time we receive a valid DMCA takedown notice, we redact personal information, as well as any reported URLs where we were unable to determine there was a violation. We then post the notice to a public DMCA repository .

DMCA notices processed

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The chart has 1 X axis displaying Time. Data ranges from 2021-01-01 00:00:00 to 2024-12-01 00:00:00.
The chart has 1 Y axis displaying values. Data ranges from 0 to 267.
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Access the complete data set on our GitHub repo or download the individual CSV files.

Projects affected by DMCA takedown requests

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The chart has 1 X axis displaying Time. Data ranges from 2021-01-01 00:00:00 to 2024-12-01 00:00:00.
The chart has 1 Y axis displaying values. Data ranges from -1 to 10357.
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Access the complete data set on our GitHub repo or download the individual CSV files.

Circumvention claims

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The chart has 1 Y axis displaying Claims. Data ranges from 18 to 456.
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Access the complete data set on our GitHub repo or download the individual CSV files.

About circumvention claims

Within our DMCA reporting, we also look specifically at takedown notices that allege circumvention of a technological protection measure under Section 1201 of the DMCA. GitHub requires additional information for a DMCA takedown notice to be complete and actionable where it alleges circumvention. Our DMCA Takedown Policy includes a section that specifically addresses circumvention claims and outlines our policy with respect to how we stand up for developers when reviewing and processing such claims.

Trends in DMCA data