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	[quote name="Seriously, don't you ever learn?"]He said basically you have posted to the public domain on someone else's message board. You can certainly assert anything you like, and they can claim to grant you anything they like in regards to copyright. But unless money is involved or someone is reproducing your work stating that they created it, there's nothing much to see here. Specificly, he said almost all fair use rules can be defensibly applied here. Criticism, comment, reporting all apply and the burden suddenly is laid on you to explain to a judge why your freely available publicly accessible work that exists on someone else's website can't be quoted, even in it's entirety, as long as they are stating you wrote it when no financial damage occurs to you. There's the letter of the law, and then there's the amount of work people are willing to pay/do to nitpick it to death. On the ISP part I'll answer that directly as again, someone with 2 years experience in site take downs. Some small ISP's might pull stuff immediately if they don't have a staff to handle it. But the average ISP now doesn't like being bullied by anyone and the major ones all now have DMCA educated staff and lawyers of their own. Remember that they are only liable for any money if there's financial damage and here there isn't any so there's no reason to rush. Senor Barborito doesnt have quite the same ring as "Universal Studios" or "Sony Music" to them. A take down request in this case would go to the bottom of the pile and its a pretty big pile lately thanks to the MPAA and RIAA. It's not like they look at the subject line of every C&D and run and pull the content. I'm sure there's examples of that somewhere but its the rarity not the norm, internet rumors aside The DMCA allows for a perfectly reasonable time for the ISP to investigate the claim. Stop spouting off about legal liability and ISP reactions. All you know about it is from reading a website.[/quote]