When is Pamela going to write a novel about the day that the Google Board of Directors decides that there is more money to be made in enforcing the user contracts as written, rather than actually performing services.
I can see the letter now: "Dear Gary Schiltz, We were in the process of looking for a buyer of the publication rights of your love letters to that slinky nymph down the street, and we wondered if, by any chance, you would like to buy back the right you granted to us when you signed up for gmail?" At an average of a thousand dollars per user, a billion users, even Google might take notice of that revenue stream. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gary Schiltz Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 3:22 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ever read the Google Agreement you "signed" I especially give them the right to "publicly perform" something I say when I am discussing inserting things, especially when it refers to places that don't receive a lot of solar radiation. They are very welcome to perform such things in public. Gary On Dec 13, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Nick Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the passage from the google contract that applies to your use of their services: > > 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 licence 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 licence 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. > > 11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services. > > Rememberthat I warned you when you love letters turn up being performed as the libretto for an opera at the S.F Opera. Would you give such power to an organization that cannot spell license? > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe > at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
