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[elliott bledsoe <e.bledsoe AT qut.edu.au>]

hey steve

thanks for the heads up. i actually was about to publish my own criticisms of the terms of use for chrome when google announced changes to it so i was waiting for an updated version of the terms before i did. will post a link when the entry is up.

for the record, this email was to point of some of the initiatives coming out of google at the moment using creative commons and open source software licences. it doesn't mean that creative commons australia has an particular "enthusiasm" for google.

_elliott

 

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On 04/09/2008, at 6. 05PM, Steve Olive wrote:

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 03:45:02 pm elliott bledsoe wrote:

hello all. it would seem that all the exciting new from creative

commons at the moment is coming out of google.

not that long ago google code (http://code.google.com) introduce cc

licensing, allowing hosted projects to release their code under the

attribution and the attribution-share alike licences. find out more

here:

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/07/introducing-content-license

s-on-google.html

and of course, google knol (http://knol.google.com), a site for

publishing "authoritative" articles, not only allowed users to license

under the attribution and the attribution-noncommercial licences from

the moment the service was launched, but it also set attribution as

the site default, meaning people have to make a conscious decision to

release their material under "all rights reserved."

but more recently (as recent as tuesday) google adopted cc on two

projects. google announced on the google photo blog

(http://googlephotos.blogspot.com ) that google's desktop photo management

software picasa (http://picasa.google.com ) now includes rights management

as part of the settings. users can maintain "all rights reserved" copyright

or apply any of the standard cc licensing suite. a user can define a

default cc licence for all of their work and manage individual photos on a

case-by-case basis. of particular interest is the licence chooser that

google has developed for picasa. i've blogged about it at

http://ccelliott.blogspot.com/2008/09/googles-picasa-photo-software-now.htm

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also on tuesday, google started a public relations campaign about

their new web browser google chrome (http://google.com/chrome). chrome

is an open source web browser released under the bsd licence

(http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php ). boasting a whole new

experience of the web it incorporates google's trade mark minimal chic in

its design with nifty features tucked away in convenient places.

unfortunately for anyone not on windows, it is only available for pc at the

moment.

but what is interesting about chrome was google's decision to release

the pr material under a creative commons attribution-noncommercial-no

derivative works licence. as i said on my blog, an interesting

marketing campaign by google: get scott mccloud to create a comic book

explaining your new project using cartoon characters of your actual

project team talking about the project. stick the comic and the comic

only in an envelop and post it to jouranlists. done. with the cc

licence on it, the campaign will spread itself. i've blogged about

their use of cc for the pr campaign here:

http://ccelliott.blogspot.com/2008/09/start-viral-campaign-googles-pr-for-n

ew.html more about chrome here:

http://ccelliott.blogspot.com/2008/09/where-for-art-thou-chromeo.html

_elliott

elliott bledsoe

project officer

+61 7 3138 9597

0405059367

elliott AT creativecommons.org.au

http://creativecommons.org.au

my cc blog: http://ccelliott.blogspot.com

The Australia Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative

Industries and Innovation funds research into Creative Commons in

Australia through the ccClinic and the CC and Open Content Licensing

(OCL) Models research programs.

www.cci.edu.au

Creative Commons Australia is hosted by Queensland University of

Technology at the QUT Faculty of Law. It is a research project of the

Intellectual Property: Knowledge, Culture and Economy research stream

of the Law and Justice Research Centre.

www.law.qut.edu.au

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You may want to re-think your enthusiasm for everything Google. See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/ for full
report.

Basically from the EULA:

   "11. Content licence from you

   11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in
Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By
submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual,
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce,
adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and
distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the
Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display,
distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services
as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services."

Anything you submit post or display using Chrome you give away to Google for
ever.

So, my question is: How will they know this? Does this mean everything you
post, upload or display is also transmitted to Google's servers?

How does this fit with Google's "Do no evil" ethic?

--
Regards,

Steve
Bathurst Computer Solutions
URL: www.bathurstcomputers.com.au
e-mail: steve AT bathurstcomputers.com.au
Mobile: 0407 224 251
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