AIBU to wonder about journalism etiquette?

[WidowWadman]

So my sister who lives in another country like the rest of my family (I moved away) is a journo in a local paper and has a column to write.

Today my mother mentioned to me in passing how she's used a couple of my facebook statuses about my children for her columns.

AIBU to think she should have shared her fee with me at least asked/mentioned that she's using them? My mum isn't even on facebook, so she only knew the stories from having read them in the local rag.

If she asked I wouldn't mind or stop her - I just find it a bit impolite not to ask, but just not sure whether that's just her being her, or whether that's standard procedure.

I am a journalist in the UK and if I use anything I find online, I check first, whether that's a press release, an FB status, a blog, whatever.

I do this because a/it's rude not to and b/if you don't, you will be in a helluva lot of trouble when the person quoted in the press release turns out to be dead for the last two years, the FB status is wrong, or the blogger you asssumed was a Syrian lesbian living in Damascus is actually a middle-aged Scottish bloke.

I would never dream of using anything from my family or friends, in particular, without asking if they were OK with it first.