GOOGLE UPDATES TERMS OF SERVICE FOR CHROME

Google updates the controversial Terms of Service for Google Chrome beta, saying that they always count on their users to come up with ways to improve their services and products. Mike Yang, Senior Product Counsel had just announced the update through the official Google Blog

“Several eagle-eyed users and bloggers have expressed concern that Section 11 of Google Chrome’s terms of service attempts to give us rights to any user-generated content “submitted, posted or displayed on or through” the browser.”

Mike Yang, Senior Product Counsel

Google Updates Terms of Service for Chrome Beta

He also said that their other products are also governed by Section 11 of the Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what’s called a “license” to display or transmit content. So to show a blog, we ask the user to give us a license to the blog’s content. But in all these cases, the license is limited to providing the service. In Gmail, for example, the terms specifically disclaim our ownership right to Gmail content.

So for Google Chrome, only the first sentence of Section 11 should have applied. We’re sorry we overlooked this, but we’ve fixed it now, and you can read the updated Google Chrome terms of service. If you’re into the fine print, here’s the revised text of Section 11:

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.

And that’s all. Period. End of section.

Mike Yang, Senior Product Counsel

Well that’s a sign that they are listening to the users. At least that is good for Google!!