Anthropic says its leak-focused DMCA effort unintentionally hit legit GitHub forks
date linked: 2 April 2026
source: link to article, from arstechnica.com
So Doctorow already said this in the essay I linked to this morning, but it’s very striking how much this leak highlights Anthropic’s willingness to use our creative labor while simultaneously cracking down on any effort for others to do the same to them.
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