Comments on: Google’s Browser Has A TOS Rights Grab

By: Monday Morning News | CanonBlogger

Monday Morning News | CanonBlogger — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:31:34 +0000

[...] Saw it again on Flickr, and thought “I remember that!” Very cool site and I learned something interesting about Google’s browser, Chrome there [...]

By: Nathan Shanahan

Nathan Shanahan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:12:04 +0000

Great to know Google are just copy and pasting T&C’s from one product to another and not even bothering to read it through. Laughable, really!

By: Timo

Timo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:35:23 +0000

Language? Is that all they can come up with in response? Amazing! And, by the way, where else are they using this language?

By: Weekend Perusing: Chrome, Flip Book, R-Strap... | Your Photo Tips

Weekend Perusing: Chrome, Flip Book, R-Strap... | Your Photo Tips — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:44:12 +0000

[...] ownership over their content, we need to read these terms of service very carefully. Thanks to A Photo Editor for the heads [...]

By: Bruce DeBoer

Bruce DeBoer — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:43:02 +0000

Right on Bro

By: sevennine | Google’s new browser has a crazy TOS

sevennine | Google’s new browser has a crazy TOS — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:16:34 +0000

[...] display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. (via) update: looks like Google has heard people [...]

By: A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:30:36 +0000

ah, well I do love how fast blogging can get these things fixed. especially if you’re a company that values blogs.

from the link above:

Here’s an official response from Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome:

“In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products. Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product. We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome.”

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:21:14 +0000

@ Zach… You need to read Picasa and Blogger’s ToS (Terms of Service) but looking at the link that Rob has provided via Bart above… It appears that at least Blogger does not have the same ToS as Chrome has (as of this writing since it sounds like Google may change the legal language in question to make it more clear).

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:44:40 +0000

“Your use of Google’s products, software, services and web sites (referred to collectively as the “Services” in this document and excluding any services provided to you by Google under a separate written agreement) is subject to the terms of a legal agreement between you and Google.”

Does this mean that this affects Picasa and Blogger?

By: Austin Cabot

Austin Cabot — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:44:26 +0000

I think the better debate would be how they would use your work. Think about the recent problems with Flickr…