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April 4, 2026
Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
But the effort to stop the spread of leaked Claude Code client code is an uphill battle.
TL;DR
- Anthropic's DMCA takedown notice for leaked Claude Code source code mistakenly targeted over 8,000 legitimate forks on GitHub.
- The company has since revised its request to only remove the specific repository containing the leaked code.
- Anthropic faces significant challenges in preventing the spread of the leaked code and its AI-generated reimplementations on various platforms.
- The legal standing of the leaked code may be affected by Anthropic's own use of AI coding tools in its development process.
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