Continue reading »]]> Before you get too excited over Google’s new browser – Chrome, you might want to read the fine print in the EULA. Apparently it allows Google to use any intellectual property you pass through Chrome in anyway they see fit. Uh huh. That’s right – post your IP via Chrome and it becomes usable property of our Google Overlords. Interesting. Granted, this is still beta software but it’s a prime example of why reading the fine print is a good thing.

Make sure you check whatever version of Chrome you download for the EULA changes Google has promised the community – they’ve acknowledged the terminology in section 11 will be removed but it’s still shocking that it got all the way through their legal team and into beta … unless of course they wanted it that way and decided to backtrack once the terminology became a ‘net issue.

11. Content license 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 license 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 license 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.

11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.

11.3 You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.

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