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Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
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Anthropic has issued copyright takedown requests to remove more than 8,000 copies of its Claude Code source that were leaked online. The company says the effort to yank the code from thousands of GitHub repositories was accidental. The DMCA action also unintentionally affected legitimate forks of the code.
Written from all 3 reports below, not from any single one.
How it was reported
- TechMeme·Anthropic is racing to contain the fallout after accidentally leaking Claude Code source code, issuing copyright takedown requests to remove 8,000+ copies (Sam Schechner/Wall Street Journal)
- TechCrunch·Anthropic took down thousands of Github repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
- Ars Technica·Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
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