You may or may not remember a week or so ago when Google's internet browser Chrome was released.
Someone read through the EULA and found that Google claimed to have "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" Google Chrome.
Oops.
Google responded by saying that they created the EULA by pasting together parts of other EULAs, and leaving this in was simply an oversight.
An oversight that they left it in? or an oversight that they made it so easy to find?
Anywho, they went ahead and amended the EULA, making it retroactive for all users of Google Chrome who operated under the previous EULA. So, no harm, no foul...right?
This whole situation got some people thinking...and looking. It turns out that Google Chrome isn't the only product where Google claims "Mine! Mine! Mine!"
Google also has similar language in their EULAs for Blogger, Picasa, Google Docs, and Google Groups.
So, what does this mean for you?
In a post by one of Google's lawyers, Mike Yang speaks of how this language is a legal way of stating:
You retain the ownership. Google retains the rights to use the content.
This seems harmless...but it makes me want to scoot a little further away from Google.
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