Margaret Tucker · @margaret-tucker April 15, 2026 | 4 minutes 4 minutes Share: We’re sharing a few timely updates on developer policy that reflect GitHub’s ongoing work on transparency, developer protections, and copyright policy engagement—issues that directly affect how developers build, share, a… …
… Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead. …
… Some platforms handle copyright takedowns with a “three strikes and you’re out” policy, automatically blocking user accounts after repeated notices. …
… Join the discussion within GitHub Community . !social Aug.20 Release Code scanning adds a mitigated alert dismissal reason application security Aug.20 Improvement Separate GitHub Actions path for GitHub Code Quality actions application security Aug.20 Improvement Track GitHub Code Quality enablemen…
… Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead. …
… Milestones: Our future goal: building a unified policy-first security model Longer term, our goal is fewer implicit behaviors, fewer per-workflow configurations, and more centralized, enforceable policy. …
… Apply enterprise policy to local Copilot execution by centrally configuring and enforcing sandbox policies through Microsoft Intune and other MDM platforms. …
… The repository Policy sidebar item is now Security policy . …
Back to blog All New Releases Improvements Retired Filters 0 selected Application Security Jul.01 Release Secret scanning public monitoring for enterprises application security Jul.01 Improvement Secret scanning adds validators for Asana, IBM, and MessageBird application security Jun.30 Improvement…
… News & insights Developer policy update: Intermediary liability, copyright, and transparency We’re sharing recent policy updates that developers should know about, updating our Transparency Center with the full year of 2025 data, and looking to what’s ahead. …