Google backtracked

    I think that the resonance caused by the extremely ambiguous wording of the eleventh paragraph of the user’s copyright agreement on information distributed through Google services (including the Google Chrome browser) did not go unnoticed.

    Google will dump a section of the licensing agreement for its new Chrome browser after some Internet users objected to its copyright implications.

    Google said Wednesday it would dump one section of the end-user licensing agreement that gave the company "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 new browser.

    Free translation:
    Google will throw one section out of the license agreement for the Chrome browser after a number of users have protested against this interpretation of copyright. Google announced on Wednesday that the company will exclude one section of the license agreement, which gives the company a “perpetual, non-revolving, valid in all countries, royalty-free and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly distribute, publicly display and copy any Content that you submit, publish or post for display using the Services "

    The domestic Internet publication Lenta.ru emphasizes:
    Now paragraph 11 of the English user agreement reads as follows: “You retain copyright and any other rights to your materials that you download, send or display on the screen using the Services.” The Russian version of the user agreement at noon on September 4, Moscow time, remained the same.

    PS: Just checked: the really Russian version still remains in its original form, but the English version has already been changed.
    Update : Moved to Google Blog

    Sources: PC World , Lenta.ru

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