diff --git a/.github/workflows/copyright-check.yml b/.github/workflows/copyright-check.yml
index 871addbdf72f..c008ba91c2a8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/copyright-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/copyright-check.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ jobs:
 
           # Files ending with .py should have Copyright notice in the first 10 lines
           find_files_with_missing_copyright() {
-          find ./ -type f -name '*.py' -not -path "./.git/*" | while read path; do
+          find ./ -type f -name '*.py' -not -path "./.git/*"  -not -path "./*__init__.py" 
+          | while read path; do
               echo -en $path"\t"
               head -n 10 $path | tr '\n' '\t' | sed 's/\t$/\n/'
           done \
@@ -41,8 +42,8 @@ jobs:
              | egrep -iv '*Copyright.*Apache.*' \
              | egrep -iv '*Apache.*License.*' \
              | while read line; do
-               echo $line | cut -d' ' -f1
-             done
+                 echo $line | cut -d' ' -f1
+               done
           }