Re: I have no blog

Ask Google. They took your posts first. They continue to take your posts, and make money off of them. When you post to a public newsgroup your posts are part of the public domain. That's where the whole idea of open source came from, remember? In your case it might lead to open sores, but that's another topic. :-) Art S. Kagel wrote: > --CELKO-- wrote: >> PUBLIC NOTICE: >> I have no blog. I have never had a blog. I have no idea who is using >> my name, postings and likeness on that "SQL Apprentice" blog. >> > The following disclaimer is in the BLOG > (www.joecelkothesqlapprentice.blogspot.com) header: > > ** This blog is not Joe Celko's but it is a collection of his answers in > public newsgroups > > On the other hand, the blog DOES contain GOOGLE Ads! Is it > legal/ethical to make ad revenue by collecting someone else's public > postings without specific permission? And if so, how will that affect > the future generosity of folk like Joe Celko and others, myself > included, who freely post advice for our fellow code sloggers? Do we > need to append copyright/left notices to all of our posts in order to > protect the integrity of our intent? > > Art S. Kagel > > Cross posted to CDI as a related interest.