If you use Chrome, read this!!

[Syn]

I just posted in another thread about someone who uses Chrome.

I'm not sure if they changed the cTOS or not, but here goes.



http://tapthehive.com/this_post_not_made_in_chrome_google_s_eula_is_now_fixed.tth

Since Chrome is a Google product/software, then it is part of the "Services". The content you post to any site is thus subject to Section 11 licensing because the content you post is something "which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services".

In other words, by posting anything (via Chrome) to your blog(s), any forum, video site, myspace, itunes, or any other site that might happen to be supporting you, Google can use your work without paying you a dime. This doesn't just apply to blogger, youtube, gmail etc, and if you think it does, re-read section 1.1 and 11. It applies to everything you pass through Chrome. Google can take your submitted content and edit and reuse it all they want, as long as they do so in connection with Chrome. Even further, you're claiming that you have the power to grant these rights. So the people who work for Conde Nast (Wired, Arstechnica), TechCrunch, Gawker, any of the other big web publishers, or a university research labs probably can't agree to the Chrome ToS because these people most likely don't have the right to give a license to the intellectual property (IP) they produce.

Although the cTOS has been changed around from time to time, I still wouldn't use it.

 

[susurrus]

I think it's a non-issue

I wouldn't worry too much about Google's Chrome's EULA especially if you use any other Google product, which is a lot of ppl; their EULAs are mostly the same.

 

[Syn]

Yes, true, but if you do not have a copyright, Google may use it! If you do not have the copy right shown on the page, Google will use it, with the excuse, basically saying, "It's your fault you didn't post the copyright with this, so we used it unknowingly."