What questions does this answer?
Who files the most?
Top copyright owners and the intermediary agencies submitting on their behalf.
Which domains are targeted?
Ranking of domains receiving the most DMCA delisting requests.
Trends over time
Year-over-year and monthly request volume — peaks, declines, and inflection points.
Removal rate
What fraction of requested URLs actually get deindexed by Google?
Industry breakdown
Music vs film vs software vs gaming — which sectors drive the most volume?
Data source
Google Transparency Report — fully public, no PII, updated periodically.
How to run
Clone and install:
git clone https://github.com/chirag127/copyright-removals-analysis.git && pip install -r requirements.txtOpen the notebook:
jupyter notebook notebooks/copyright-removals-analysis.ipynb— first cell downloads the ~80 MB dataset automatically.Or run headless CLI:
python -m copyright_removals.analyze --download --report # Charts saved to output/ | Findings printed to stdout