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Indyhouse•

Everywhere that's reporting this should be smacked for bad journalism.

EVERYONE is leaving out the sentence RIGHT BEFORE the chunk of TOS they quote... Everyone is leaving out THIS:

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

You HAVE to grant rights to Google or they wouldn't be able to do anything with your photo at all. You don't relinquish copyright. Period.

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kturtle11•

Is that second part of that paragraph for when you've granted Google those rights? How would one grant Google those rights anyways?

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SoulbowOP•

Thank you for pointing that out. I didn't realize it when I posted the article.

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[deleted]•

I think Google is just covering their own ass for being able to host your copyrighted material on their servers.

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readmckay•

This.

If you look at other photo hosting websites their ToS says the exact same thing almost word for word.

For instance, over at flickr...

Yahoo! does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Service. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service, you grant Yahoo! the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:

(b)With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Service other than Yahoo! Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Service and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo! removes such Content from the Service.

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