“…by posting anything (via Chrome) to your blog(s), any forum, video site, myspace, itunes, or any other site that might happen to be supporting you, Google can use your work without paying you a dime.”
“And for the record, Microsoft tried this years ago with MSN messenger, where MS got an irrevocable perpetual license to all IP that passed through MSN messenger, and the net basically revolted.”
“There are some people who have claimed that this is standard legal jargon for every piece of software. Not only is that simply not true, no clause even close to that is in the Firefox terms of service.”
Read about it (here), Thanks Bart.
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I think the better debate would be how they would use your work. Think about the recent problems with Flickr…
“Your use of Google’s products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Google under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Google.”
Does this mean that this affects Picasa and Blogger?
@ Zach… You need to read Picasa and Blogger’s ToS (Terms of Service) but looking at the link that Rob has provided via Bart above… It appears that at least Blogger does not have the same ToS as Chrome has (as of this writing since it sounds like Google may change the legal language in question to make it more clear).
ah, well I do love how fast blogging can get these things fixed. especially if you’re a company that values blogs.
from the link above:
Here’s an official response from Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome:
“In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products. Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product. We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome.”
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Right on Bro
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Language? Is that all they can come up with in response? Amazing! And, by the way, where else are they using this language?
Great to know Google are just copy and pasting T&C’s from one product to another and not even bothering to read it through. Laughable, really!
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