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by sandworm101 2617 days ago
A purely random number is almost certainly always beyond copyright, but as soon as someone puts limitations on that randomness a court may find that enough.

And what matters for a takedown is not the number, but the actually document being published. Github is not hosting the random number. It is hosting that number in the context of a larger document and it is that document that is subject to the takedown request. Things might be different if github hosted only the number without the associated labels and code.