Google Chrome EULA Claims Ownership of Everything You Create on Chrome, From Blog Posts to Emails

So , are you relish thesnappy , white functioning of Google Chromesince downloading yesterday ? If so , you might desire to take a close peep at the conclusion user permission agreement you did n’t pay any care to when downloading and instal it . Because according to what you agree to , Google owns everything you print and create while using Chrome . Ah - whaaa ? Update : It was a copy & paste mistake , apparently , andthe offending terminology is being take as we address . Thanks , Googe!Here are the juicy bits in question :

11 . Content license from you 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you give in , post or display on or through , the Services . By submitting , post or exhibit the substance you give Google a perpetual , irrevocable , worldwide , royalty - free , and non - single license to procreate , adapt , modify , interpret , publish , in public do , publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit , post or display on or through , the Services . This licence is for the solitary purpose of enable Google to display , disseminate and encourage the Services and may be revoked for sure Services as defined in the Additional damage of those Services . 11.2 You gibe that this licence includes a rightfield for Google to make such Content available to other party , system or individuals with whom Google has relationship for the supplying of syndicate services , and to utilize such Content in connection with the provision of those divine service . 11.3 You understand that Google , in perform the required technological steps to provide the Services to our user , may ( a ) channel or distribute your capacity over various public internet and in various media ; and ( b ) make such change to your Content as are necessary to conform and adjust that Content to the technical prerequisite of connecting internet , gimmick , help or media . You gibe that this licence shall permit Google to take these actions . 11.4 You confirm and justify to Google that you have all the rightfulness , power and authority necessary to award the above license .

Well , I suppose I should n’t have used Chrome to put some post up yesterday , because I sure as shooting do not have the rights , power or authorization to reach over my work from Gawker to the Googe . Oops ! You ’ll have to pry the rights to my posts from Nick Denton ’s cold , dead handwriting , Google . In any case , it ’s a pretty unneeded and inordinate thing to put in the EULA for a web browser , of all piece of software , which shit it pretty confutable . Why in the infernal region would Google want possession of every individual blog post or email publish in its web web browser ? It ’s so unreasonable that it adjoin on the insane . I ca n’t really imagine Google actually invoking this and dead publishing heavily edited entries from your LiveJournal for profit , but I think a wad of mass would palpate much honorable about hopping on instrument panel with Chrome if this little piece of sketchy legalese was axed . What say you , Google overlords ? [ Tap the Hive ]

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