# github/dmca

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

Repository: https://github.com/github/dmca
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/dmca
Homepage: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-policies/dmca-takedown-policy
Language: DIGITAL Command Language
License Family: other
Topics: dmca
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:43:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5696, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6356, forks 1397 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:42.787126+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: documentation, search-engine
- domain: legal, privacy, developer-tools, documentation
- platform: cli
- tags: dmca, takedown-notices, transparency, copyright, legal-documents, corpus, text-corpus, web-server

## Member repositories
- github/dmca (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:42.787126+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:46:05.670684+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/github/dmca (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:42.787126+00:00, sha 35cfa201b2c2)
  - homepage: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-policies/dmca-takedown-policy (fetched 2026-08-29T08:42:14.176203+00:00, sha c0bc47c594ca)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.