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Content Policy & DMCA

What may be shared in the Anki Browser deck gallery, how licensing works, and how to have infringing content removed.

Last updated: 2026-09-03

What we welcome

  • Decks you made yourself — vocabulary, languages, medicine, law, music, exam prep, anything you genuinely study.
  • Decks built from material you are licensed to redistribute: your own notes, open-licensed sources, or content you have written permission to share.
  • Decks with a clear title, a working download link and an honest one-line summary.

What we do not accept

  • Decks containing copyrighted text, images or audio you do not have the rights to distribute. This is the most common problem: many Anki decks embed textbook scans, dictionary audio or stock photography. If you did not license those assets, do not submit the deck.
  • Decks that are dumps of a commercial product — paid courses, coaching material, exam prep sold by someone else.
  • Decks containing other people's personal data, or anything illegal, harassing or malicious.
  • Links that do not lead to the deck, or that lead to malware, ad walls or unrelated content.

Licensing

You choose the licence when you submit. The default is CC BY-NC 4.0 (attribution, non-commercial), which suits most study decks: others may use and adapt the deck as long as they credit you and do not sell it.

Other options include CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC0 1.0 and MIT. If none fits, choose "Other" and describe the terms in the note to the moderator.

The licence you choose applies to the deck content. It does not transfer any rights you do not have — if your deck contains third-party material, your licence cannot cover it and the deck should not be submitted.

Your authorship is displayed on the deck page: your nickname, and a link to your homepage or profile if you provide one.

Reporting infringing content

If a listed deck infringes your rights, tell us and we will act. Use any of the channels on the contact page — a GitHub issue is fastest. Please include:

  • The URL of the deck page on this site, and the URL of the download link it points to.
  • Identification of the work you own, and enough detail for us to locate it (title, ISBN, a link to the original).
  • A statement that you believe in good faith the use is not authorised by you, your agent or the law.
  • A statement that the information in your notice is accurate and that you are the rights holder or authorised to act on their behalf.
  • Your name, and a way to reach you (a GitHub account or an email address).

On a valid notice we remove or disable the listing promptly and tell the submitter what happened. We keep the submission ticket on GitHub as a record of the action taken.

Counter-notice

If your deck was removed and you believe this was a mistake — because you own the content, or the use is permitted — reply in the same GitHub issue with the reason, and evidence of your rights. We will review it and may restore the listing.

Repeat submissions

Anyone who repeatedly submits infringing or malicious decks is blocked from the submission queue.