For any of you using Google services, you might want to take a careful look at what you're agreeing to by using the service...ANY Google service.
Here's an excerpt from the TOS:
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“By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google 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 Services.”
“You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.”
“You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these actions.”
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here's a link to the entire document:
[Link: google.com]I'm not a lawyer, but you might want to have yours take a look at those passages because it appears to me that anything you submit to any Google service grants Google a license to use it, transmit it, modify it, etc, as they see fit.
If you make money licensing photos, for example, and you use Picasa to store them or Google+ to share them, you have granted Google a license to use your stuff! And share it if it amuses them, and modify it.
This is a little disturbing.
