Copyright Removals Analysis

Exploring Google's public DMCA transparency dataset — who files, what gets targeted, how trends evolved.

Stars MIT Python pandas

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

  1. Clone and install: git clone https://github.com/chirag127/copyright-removals-analysis.git && pip install -r requirements.txt

  2. Open the notebook: jupyter notebook notebooks/copyright-removals-analysis.ipynb — first cell downloads the ~80 MB dataset automatically.

  3. Or run headless CLI:

    python -m copyright_removals.analyze --download --report
    # Charts saved to output/  |  Findings printed to stdout
View Notebook GitHub