I was thinking about trying Google Video till I read this:
3. Use of Content. By entering into this Agreement and
uploading, sending or otherwise making available Your Authorized
Content to Google, you are directing and authorizing Google to,
and granting Google a royalty-free, non-exclusive right and
license to, host, cache, route, transmit, store, copy, modify,
distribute, perform, display, reformat, excerpt, facilitate the
sale or rental of copies of, analyze, and create algorithms
based on the Authorized Content in order to (i) host the
Authorized Content on Google’s servers, (ii) index the
Authorized Content; (iii) display, perform and distribute the
Authorized Content, in whole or in part, in the territory(ies)
designated in the Metadata Form, in connection with Google
products and services now existing or hereafter developed,
including without limitation for syndication on third party
sites; and in connection with each of the uses, if any, of the
Authorized Content authorized in the video information page (the
“Video Information Page”) which will be made available to You no
sooner than at the time Google enables any of the features
designated on the Video Information Page This license gives
Google the right to display Your Authorized Content via
streaming and/or downloading technologies, and to display
limited excerpts of Your Authorized Content for no fee to the
end user. Google may in its sole discretion display a link or
links to the website You designate (subject to Google’s
approval) in the Metadata Form in connection with any display of
Your Authorized Content, and to display links to third party
commercial retailer web sites where purchases of the Authorized
Content may be available, to the extent such third party
commercial retailer web site serves as a distributor of the
Authorized Content. You expressly agree that any and all links
provided by You shall function properly and effectively to allow
end users to transfer immediately to the intended and indicated
site(s), and that You are solely responsible for maintaining and
updating as necessary any such links. ….
What bothers me the most is the “copy, modify, distribute, perform”… clause there. Seems a little bit broad to me. Actually, it seems a LOT broad.
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