Content Removal Guidelines
DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown requests
We take the intellectual property rights of others seriously and require that our users do the same. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) established a process for addressing claims of copyright infringement. If you own a copyright or have authority to act on behalf of a copyright owner and want to make a claim that a third party is infringing that copyright on or through GitLab’s services, Submitting a DMCA notice section below.
Submitting a DMCA notice
If you believe that someone is infringing on your copyright as the copyright owner, you can send a DMCA notice to dmca@gitlab.com.
Your DMCA notice must include the following information:
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Identify the copyrighted work. A description of the copyrighted work that you claim is being infringed;
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Identify the allegedly-infringing material. A description of the material you claim is infringing and that you want removed or access to which you want disabled and the URL or other location of that material;
Be as specific as possible. If you believe less than the whole project infringes, identify the specific project, file, or line numbers within a file a user would need to delete in order to remedy the infringement.
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GitLab will not automatically disable forks of a project unless they are explicitly identified within the notice you send. It is your responsibility to determine that the material identified, including any fork(s) included in a notice, independently meet the notice requirements.
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Provide contact information. Your name, title (if acting as an agent), address, telephone number, and email address;
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Include the following statement: “I have a good faith belief that the use of the copyrighted material I am complaining of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (for example, as a fair use)”;
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Include the following statement: “The information in this notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed”; and
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Signature. An electronic or physical signature of the owner of the copyright or a person authorized to act on the owner’s behalf.
Notices with missing or inaccurate information cannot be processed. Upon receipt of a deficient notice, a member of our team may reach out to you for more information.
What happens next?
We will review your DMCA notice. If we verify that you have submitted the required information, we will take whatever action we deem appropriate under the DMCA, which may include the removal of the challenged content from the website or disabling access to the account(s) of the reported user(s).
Valid notices will be forwarded to the reported account owner, allowing them to submit a counter notice or remove the content from gitlab.com. If a responsive counter notice is deemed valid, we will forward it to you for further action.
Responding to a DMCA notice
If you receive a gitlab.com DMCA notice for content that is in your control, you can respond to the notice by:
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removing the reported content from gitlab.com, or
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if you believe your content is mistakenly the subject of the DMCA notice, you have the right to contest the notice by submitting a DMCA counter notice by following the instructions below.
If you do not respond or take no action with regard to a DMCA notice we send to you, the reported content will be made private, and we may take further action we deem appropriate under the DMCA.