Google adapts licensing of Chrome after copyright complaints
Posted by Katherine Thompson on September 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Google is dropping a section of the licensing agreement for the new Chrome browser after complaints.
Google reported yesterday that it is removing the section 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.
Shortly after Chrome was launched users raised concerns about the language in the copyright. Some critics said the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without copyright permission.
Google has indicated that this is a misunderstanding, and that it simply borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome license.
Source: PC World
Google reported yesterday that it is removing the section 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.Shortly after Chrome was launched users raised concerns about the language in the copyright. Some critics said the language would allow Google to use any Web content displayed in Chrome without copyright permission.
Google has indicated that this is a misunderstanding, and that it simply borrowed language from other products, "in order to keep things simple for our users," when it inserted the copyright provision in the Chrome license.
Source: PC World
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