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**nyef** · 09-03-2008, 01:30 PM

Excerpt from the EULA for the new Google Chrome browser...

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.

**Learning Newbie** · 09-03-2008, 02:02 PM

This is what you give up - when? By using Chrome? Gmail? Running a Google search?

**juliensimon** · 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Learning Newbie

This is what you give up - when? By using Chrome? Gmail? Running a Google search?

[whisper] pssss, read the first sentence of the thread

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(EULA=end user license agreement)

**Learning Newbie** · 09-03-2008, 04:10 PM

I did. And I work in software, so I have a pretty good understanding of EULAs. Along with the first sentence (and title) of the thread, I also read this.

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You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

Google Chrome is at best 1 single service, and not worthy of plural. At that, it's a software application (or product), not a service(s). Which means the whole thing really doesn't make sense in the context of a web browser.

If you read it to mean that, expanding the language out gets us to the idea that any content at all that you use Chrome to transmit across the wire becomes their property. That's unconscionable. That doesn't prove it's not what's happening, but for a company concerned with its reputation for privacy, etc, I doubt this is a risk worth taking.

Which brings me back to my original question. What, exactly, do users give up, and when or by what action?