Google Retracts Terms of Service EULA

Written by chi

Wednesday, 03 September 2008 19:37

EULA (SURFCHROME.COM) - Under pressure by privacy advocates, watchdogs and content producers, Google has modified Section 11 of their Terms of Service which previously gave 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."

According to Matt Cutt's blog, the Senior Product Counsel Rebecca Ward of Google stated, "In order to keep things simple for our users, we try to use the same set of legal terms (our Universal Terms of Service) for many of our products. Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome, this means that the legal terms for a specific product may include terms that don’t apply well to the use of that product. We are working quickly to remove language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome terms of service. This change will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome."

Section 11 now simply reads:

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.

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