On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 12:05 -0500, Sean Burns wrote: > Theresa Kehoe wrote: > > Uh huh. And in the meanwhile, if you use it, "all your base are > belong > > to us". > > Part of the problem is due to our draconian copyright law and Google > is simply trying to protect itself: > > "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." > > Strictly speaking, when an image search is conducted on Google, > those thumbnails we see could be understood as derivative works and > thusly would be in violation of copyright. Even a translation, w/o > permission, is a copyright violation because it's considered > derivative of the original work. So when we see that "Translate > this page" option on a Google search result, it's theoretically a > copyright violation to click on that. There's even some debate > about whether hyperlinking is a copyright violation, especially deep > linking to a page. > > When a Linux version becomes available and if there's still a > different license for the source code and the binary, one solution > would be to compile it ourselves, and even make alterations. Heck, > if it's a BSD license, we simply have to attribute the source code, > we could even make a proprietary version if we wanted to be evil. > > Anyway, it's not Google really. It's copyright law that causes all > this legal idiocy.
So how come Mozilla's Firefox EULA does not lay claim to own everything I submit, post, or display on or through their services? http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/legal/eula/firefox-en.html If it is just copyright law, then surely Mozilla Firefox would be sued out of existence in a day? Theresa --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
