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This guide describes the information that GitLaw needs in order to process a DMCA takedown request. If you have more general questions about what the DMCA is or how GitLaw processes DMCA takedown requests, please review our DMCA Takedown Policy.

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Welcome to GitLaw's Guide to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, commonly known as the "DMCA." This page is not meant as a comprehensive primer to the statute. However, if you've received a DMCA takedown notice targeting content you've posted on GitLaw or if you're a rights-holder looking to issue such a notice, this page will hopefully help to demystify the law a bit as well as our policies for complying with it.

If you'd like to request that content be removed from GitLaw, please take some time to acquaint yourself with each of these policies and their respective reporting requirements before submitting a report. If we receive an incomplete report, we'll need to ask for clarifications or revisions and you’ll need to re-submit a revised report.

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