"Ron Hunter" wrote in message
...
: Atheist Chaplain wrote:
: And yes this is on topic as it directly affects photographers that upload
: photos to web sites via a browser
:
: Original URL:
: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09...me_eula_sucks/
: Burned by Chrome
: By Chris Mellor
: Published Wednesday 3rd September 2008 13:39 GMT
:
: Astute Reg readers have pointed out a Chrome condition of service that
: effectively lets Google use any of your copyrighted material posted to
the
: web via Chrome without paying you a cent.
:
: Here's the relevant section 11.1 of the Chrome EULA
: (http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html):
:
: 11. Content licence from you
:
: 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in
: Content that 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 that 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.
:
:
:
: Granting 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 that you
: submit, post or display on or through' Chrome is coming it rich.
:
: Suppose Google does this to material you have posted that's not yours? No
: problem. It has a get-out-of-jail card signed by you in section 11.4 of
the
: EULA:
:
: 11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights,
power
: and authority necessary to grant the above licence.
:
: But you may be posting material via Chrome to your employer's site and it
: owns the copyright of anything you create in work time. What then if
Google
: adapts, modifies and distributes it? Your fan has brown stuff all over it
: but none of it sticks to Google.
:
: Back in 2001, El Reg first revealed how Microsoft's new single sign-on
: Passport, used for all its web services including Hotmail, also appeared
to
: grab your intellectual property. Microsoft issued a reworded
: (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/03..._data_and_biz/) Terms of
: Use
:
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04...rage_prompted/) a
: few days later. Similar land-grabs have been attempted other operators
: including MySpace
: (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06...ragg_myspace/), amongst
: others.
:
: Copyright-sensitive sysadms may banish Chrome from their networks because
of
: this. Google's been asked how it fits in with its general 'Do no evil'
ethic
: but wasn't immediately able to respond - because they're not in their
office
: yet.®
:
:
:
: Already modified.
: Someone just copied their EULA from other Goggle apps, without,
: apparently, reading the thing and realizing that this wasn't applicable
: to a browser.


I was wondering how to post stuff via my Chrome reader..