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Re: Good read Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:51:38 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: larry price <laprice () gmail com> Date: February 11, 2010 3:04:32 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Good read Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:10 PM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: Doug Humphrey <doug () joss com> Date: February 10, 2010 9:07:56 PM EST To: dave () farber net Cc: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Good read Yale switching to Google Apps / Gmail
/www.google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=en <quote> 11. Content licence 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 licence 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 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. </quote>Ok, so Google isn't claiming copyright, they're just getting an irrevocable and royalty-free right to all your stuff, via language that that can be stretched around anything they want to use it for. How's that really any better?
exactly my point as well! I am not saying they are taking MY rights, but by sending an email to joe saying "hey, do you realize that when you X the Y you get Z?" I am giving them license to "when you X the Y you get Z"? in fact, it would be interesting to know if you mention something, in private email with someone else, if you go for a patent on it, or if you go to execute an exclusive license agreement with someone, is there a difficulty because you have given a non-exclusive license to it to Google simply by mentioning it in an email message on their service? Even if it was just a message TO YOURSELF as a reminder note? doug
From the language it seems clear that the intent is to protect google from being sued by someone who voluntarily posted something through the service. And not to grant google any ownership rights in any material entrusted to them for transmission or display.
Not being a lawyer. I cannot say with any certainty that that is the effect of the language of the TOS. ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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