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<blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 27176" data-attributes="member: 1061"><p>Google+ is Google's answer to social media, designed to compete directly with Facebook. It's not open to the general public yet, but it will be soon. It's pretty cool, but it's going to be a tough job uprooting 500 million Facebook users. Anyway, here's a little snippet from the Google+ terms of service:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We've touched on some of this verbiage in the <a href="http://nikonites.com/general-photography-forum/3015-rights-grabs-how-protect-yourself.html" target="_blank">Rights Grab</a> thread. I'm not a lawyer, but what Google+ is trying to do here is pretty obvious. Combined with the already powerful Google image search, they are trying to own the rights to every image on the planet. The wording of this terms of service is dangerous.</p><p></p><p>Basically, if you wanted to license photos, the above agreement makes any image you post to Google+ the property of Google. Watermark, copyright, or not...it doesn't matter. You won't be able to offer any kind of license on those photos anymore. Ever.</p><p></p><p>You've been warned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Browncoat, post: 27176, member: 1061"] Google+ is Google's answer to social media, designed to compete directly with Facebook. It's not open to the general public yet, but it will be soon. It's pretty cool, but it's going to be a tough job uprooting 500 million Facebook users. Anyway, here's a little snippet from the Google+ terms of service: We've touched on some of this verbiage in the [URL="http://nikonites.com/general-photography-forum/3015-rights-grabs-how-protect-yourself.html"]Rights Grab[/URL] thread. I'm not a lawyer, but what Google+ is trying to do here is pretty obvious. Combined with the already powerful Google image search, they are trying to own the rights to every image on the planet. The wording of this terms of service is dangerous. Basically, if you wanted to license photos, the above agreement makes any image you post to Google+ the property of Google. Watermark, copyright, or not...it doesn't matter. You won't be able to offer any kind of license on those photos anymore. Ever. You've been warned. [/QUOTE]
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