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Message:: [QUOTE="Burton Strauss III, post: 2283337, member: 59677"]The law is the law, whether you like it or not. Profit is not required, infringement is the issue. DMCA give the host (this board) a safe harbor, but requires takedown unless a valid counter-notice is filed. It's not the burden on the poster, his/her post just gets smoked. It's the burden on our host(s) ... Google, as an example receives over 1,000 notices per second, mostly from automated bots. And so if Google gets the notice about this post, it gets removed from the index, making knowledge harder to find for all! Wrong. Comes directly from the Berne convention, which has been made law of the land in most of the signatories. The TPP continues to extend the reach into additional countries. That's not what the law says. But you can -easily- achieve the result you want by granting explicit rights when you post them. "Permission granted for non-commercial reuse" or look into one of the CC (Creative Commons) licenses.[/QUOTE]