Bestwifeever
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I have seen the google ads and I can't imagine anyone not realizing they are ads, Emeritus. Surely you are smart enough to tell an ad from a message text?
I have seen the google ads and I can't imagine anyone not realizing they are ads, Emeritus. Surely you are smart enough to tell an ad from a message text?
If a member tries putting ads in his posts he will quickly become an ex-member.
Like an attorney offering members advice regarding serious legal and ethical matters?![]()
Whether the reader is logged in or not, IMHO putting material into a post, which make it appear to be part of the post, raises serious legal and ethical issues.
Would you elaborate on exactly what those "serious legal and ethical issues" are? I seem to have missed that part.
I agree. I logged off a short while ago to see what all the fuss was about and it is [-]bleeding[/-] obvious that they are ads and not message text.
If a member tries putting ads in his posts he will quickly become an ex-member.
Cats and dogs may begin sleeping together!and if someone else puts ads in my post what happens?
Cats and dogs may begin sleeping together!
It's called false attribution of authorship. Anytime a person inserts a message into someone else's communication it gives the impression of authorship or permission cf
the rights against false attribution of authorship - the author has the right not to have their work attributed falsely to someone else and not to have an altered work attributed as unalteredhttp://education.qld.gov.au/strategic/eppr/information/ifmpr007/guidelines.html
I can go into this at greater depth if anyone is intersted
Emeritus, I believe that attribution rights is more of an issue under some foreign copyright laws, not the US, except for the visual arts.
Those ads don't cause me any concern
Eat at Joe's - For Serious legal and ethical issue discussions
Except when they mislead people.
Would you elaborate on exactly what those "serious legal and ethical issues" are? I seem to have missed that part.
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem becomes a nail....![]()