Thursday, September 4, 2008

Google Chrome TOS - WTF

Google owns all of your content your submit or post through it. Google has just announced that they changed their TOS to correct this.:
"11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."
to this:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
Additional interesting tidbits from the TOS:

Google Chrome possibly turning into a Comcast by limiting usage:
"4.5 You acknowledge and agree that while Google may not currently have set a fixed upper limit on the number of transmissions you may send or receive through the Services or on the amount of storage space used for the provision of any Service, such fixed upper limits may be set by Google at any time, at Google’s discretion."
Google Chrome turns out to be add supported:
17.3 In consideration for Google granting you access to and use of the Services, you agree that Google may place such advertising on the Services.
Thoughts?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am glad they changed it, our company would never allow that because of HIPA.