On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]>wrote:
> Drop Box: *You own your data*: > *By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and > folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, “your stuff”). **You retain > full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it.** > These > Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property > except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as > explained below.* > https://www.dropbox.com/dmca#terms > > Google Drive: *They own your data*: > *When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, **you give > Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, > reproduce, modify, create derivative works** (such as those resulting > from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your > content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly > perform, publicly display and distribute such content.* > http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/#toc-content > Giving them those rights does not assign ownership at all. If you didn't give them those rights, how could Drive or any cloud service possibly work? How can it make a JPG out of a CR2? How can they move data between data centres or create replicas or backups? Or what if I put a bunch of photos up and share them publicly from their infrastructure? David.
