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Developer.com: GitHub Enlists Stanford Law to Defend Open Source Developers

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James Payne
Jul 27, 2021

Developer.com’s Mike Vizard reports on the newly formed GitHub Developer Rights Fellowship. Seeded by a $1 million Developer Defense Fund, “the Fellowship will be made accessible at no cost to developers any time GitHub receives a valid takedown claim that would require GitHub to remove code from its public repository.”

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