To Whom It May Concern:

I found this blog when Googling my name (echomikeromeo). I am the same echomikeromeo who is the Head of the Latin Department on h2g2's Language Thing, and I am the same echomikeromeo who made the comment you have quoted in your post above.

My purpose for spending an involved half-hour (due to a computer freeze) registering for this website and posting here is to tell you that I do not appreciate your lifting my comments from h2g2 without my permission. It would have been incredibly simple to register on BBCi and send me a message on h2g2 asking for my permission to reproduce my comments. There are many other ways to contact me online, whether through email or through messages on half a dozen different websites, from h2g2 to Wikipedia to the Textkit of which I spoke.

In fact, to do any less than find a medium of contact in which to ask my permission for use of this quote is a form of plagiarism and is thus illegal according to copyright laws. Anything published on h2g2 is owned in a joint copyright by the poster and the BBC. Granted, my knowledge of UK copyright law is not what it should be, but I think that I can say that you, whomever you may be, are at fault in lifting my comments.

If approached and asked, I would have been happy to allow you to reproduce my remarks, and I am still not going to take any further action. I just would like you to know that I am not pleased with your action and would ask that if you intend to quote anyone from a post on h2g2 or anywhere else, you request permission first.

Thank you for your time and attention,
echomikeromeo

The offending quotation has now been removed.