Google adjustments Chrome licence text

September 5, 2008 by · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Tech News, Tech Products 

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-chrome-screenshot.jpgGoogle lifted the article user agreement of its new browser, Chrome , published on Tuesday.

The original agreement calls for duties on “any content that you submit, publish or display on or through a browser.

Google confirmed the agreement on the environment, so that these rights are in the hands of users Chrome .

Google said that its user agreement and was re-use the original action was a mistake.

First End User License Agreement (Euler) argues, “perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute content They send e-mail or screen or on the services directive “.

Rebecca Ward, senior product manager of Google Chrome lawyers, said the problem arose because Google applications from their sectors Universal Terms of Service to all their proposals “In order to keep things simple for our users.

“Sometimes, as in the case of Google Chrome , it means that the legal point of view for a particular product can also be terms that do not relate well to the use of this product,” he said.

Amendments article suggests that users “retain copyright and other rights that are already on the content or use the browser screen.

The situation echoes the controversy surrounding last year Euler Google Docs, its online word processing and spreadsheets programs. Google initially claimed that a wide range of rights, as well as rewrite the agreement in connection with users.

source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7597699.stm

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