Google’s cloud service under criticism, terms and conditions raise some serious questions among critics – Part 2

It is clear that the service serves only the purpose of storage device, like a hard drive in the user’s local computer machine and do not hold any right to the content uploaded.

SkyDrive

“5. Your Content: Except for material that we license to you, we don’t claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don’t control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service.”

Microsoft values the users’ privacy and do not have any right whatsoever to the  content uploaded to their service.

Now see what Google says on its clouding service.

Google Drive

“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).”

To have the right to any file or folder uploaded on Google’s service is not the biggest issue in discussion here, what bothers most experts is the last sentence in the terms.

The company does not have the rights to change or publish users’ content but also retains the right to do so even after users terminate the service. Most of the users who only will use the only storage to save some videos and music might not bother for the details, but those like musicians and artists and scientists who have worked on some project might want to have their intecllectual rights intact in this case.

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Posted by Usman Khalid on Apr 26 2012. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.