Google Chrome – EULA what nobody reads.
As much as I like Chrome, here is the problem:
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.
Now, that’s cold. One would expect such things from Microsoft, but not from the company that claims “Do No Evil”. While I can understand how a web site might claim that they own the content that you have generated on it via forums, blogs and so on, things like that from the browser seems to be a bit too extreme. Many people will not be able to honestly accept such agreement – after all if you are at work, your employer probably has rights to all content generated by yourself that’s related to the employer’s business. Same goes for universities and colleges – your research and your projects are part of Intellectual Property which most likely is property of the school. This renders Chrome unusable for many people. Not to mention that an open source browser that claims such rights sounds like a complete rip off. Hoping that they will rethink the EULA in the future, after all, this just makes sense.
BTW, posting this via Chrome.