Google Drive owns your stuff
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- benfal99
Be careful
https://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/h…“Your Content in our Services: When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This licence continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing that you have added to Google Maps).”
- zoozoo0
what if you steal stuff from google and put it in their drive? its not really stealing is it? am i clever? not at all.
- mikotondria30
*no, I don't, actually, Google, give you the right to use, modify, etc, my shit. I give you ones and zeros. Leave that shit alone.
- mg330
Uh, no thank you.
- 20120
Probably just over zealous lawyers covering all the bases. I doubt Google has a secret plan to steal your designs and start selling them.
- you're prob right. it's more like they are saying, hey we're allowed to translate your shit, present it in diff waysprophetone
- just think of how they have to re-process all the Google+ user data, someone in japan might need to my profile in kanjiprophetone
- akrok0
2012 is uploading his soul as we speak...eh, type. ;-)
- inteliboy0
Lawyers and nutso lawcase-hungry civilians have made these endless reels of fine print insane.
- prophetone0
it's not like your stuff's going to end up as a surprise billboard like when clark told ellen he erased the sexy tape in european vacation but man was he eating crow on that one. real niiice clark.
- 23kon0
when you send stuff through hotmail and other mail services like that it becomes their property. check their T&C's
- animatedgif0
Read the lines before it, they don't.
This sort of shit is required for them to store and copy your files about to all your devices.
If you want to be worried about something be worried that they OCR all your scanned documents and will be using the entire contents of your Drive to fill in more info in your marketing profile.
Stick with services where the produce is the service like dropbox, not free services where you are the product.
- By "improve our services" they MEAN deliver ads to you that you're more likely to click.i_monk
- exactlyanimatedgif
- honest0
i picked the wrong place to put my porn
- i_monk0
"After Dropbox and Microsoft’s SkyDrive —"
I've never even heard of SkyDrive until this article (is zdnet owned by MS?)
- nb0
What about when you die? Your work might be more valuable. If a famous artist used Google Drive, would Google own their work after they died? Seems like a ridiculous notion.
- tOki0
- moldero0
myspace was like this till enough people bitched about it.