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And yes this is on topic as it directly affects photographers that upload
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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.


A browser does not constitute a "service".