2021 Transparency Report
In GitHub’s latest transparency report, we’re giving you a by-the-numbers look at how we responded to requests for user info and content removal.
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The Copyright Office expands your security research rights
Recently, the Copyright Office responded to the calls to clarify the scope of protected security research.
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Vague infringement allegations considered harmful
Ensuring that software copyright allegations are specific and actionable benefits the entire developer ecosystem. That’s why GitHub submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the SAS Institute, Inc. v. World Programming Ltd. case before a Federal Court of Appeals.
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2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats.
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Standing up for developers: the GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship at Stanford Law School
GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund will enable independent legal support from the Stanford Juelsgaard Clinic to review and handle appropriate DMCA cases for developers on GitHub and across the software ecosystem.
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FUD chills: GitHub stands with security researchers on DMCA Section 1201
Security research makes us all safer, but too often developers face ambiguous rules and possible criminal liability when they do quality assurance work to find security holes in their stack.…
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 22-year old United States law meant to strike a complicated balance between art, code, and speech on the net — impacting users…
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Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back
Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.
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GitHub shares lessons learned from EU Copyright Directive at US DMCA roundtable
Find out what we shared at the US Copyright Office based on our experience with the EU Copyright Directive.
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