2008/9/4 Abdulkareem U K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Content license from you" part of the Google Chrome EULA (Full text here ) > > 11. Content license from you > > 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. > > 11.2 You agree that this license 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. > > 11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps > to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your > Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such > changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content > to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or > media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these > actions. > > 11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power > and authority necessary to grant the above license. >
Google said Wednesday it would dump one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company "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 new browser. Google said it borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome license. "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," Rebecca Ward, senior product counsel for Chrome, said in a statement. "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." [ They said they wouldn't do evil, not that they'd never make a mistake. And this is how legal documents are drafted every day -- you take another one, and you copy what you need, which is why lawyers ought to be able to understand the value of the Open Source development model. But the downside in legal work is that sometimes you get so used to a particular paragraph always being there, you don't think it through carefully enough in the new document. Then you fix it.] See the Infoworld article at http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/09/03/Google_amends_Chrome_license_agreement_after_objections_1.html Slashdot Discussion : http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/09/03/0247205.shtml A legal analysis : http://tapthehive.s483.sureserver.com/chrome.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
