github/dmca resource
Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about our DMCA policy can be found at observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5696
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
6356 stars · 1397 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A public repository containing the full text of DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices received by GitHub, published for transparency with only private information redacted. It serves as a continuously updated archive documenting copyright enforcement actions on the platform.
Use cases
- research DMCA takedown notice patterns on GitHub
- find whether a repository was subject to a takedown notice
- study copyright enforcement transparency data
- analyze how GitHub processes takedown notices
- track counter-notice filings and reinstatements
- build a dataset of takedown notice texts for legal research
When to choose
- you need primary-source texts of actual DMCA notices received by GitHub
- you are researching copyright enforcement or online speech chilling effects
- you want to check if specific content was targeted by a takedown
When to avoid
- you need legal advice about filing or responding to a DMCA notice
- you want takedown data from platforms other than GitHub
- you need a structured database with search and filtering - the repo is raw text files
Facets
dataset · maturity active
documentation search-engine legal privacy developer-tools documentation cli dmca takedown-notices transparency copyright legal-documents corpus text-corpus web-server
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/github/dmca · fetched 2026-08-28 · 35cfa201b2c2
- homepage: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-policies/dmca-takedown-policy · fetched 2026-08-29 · c0bc47c594ca
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| github/dmca | main | 77 |
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