Thursday, February 7, 2008

Terms and Services

According to Clause 3, Privacy, and Clause 5, Content of the Service, Google may share your personal information and your content with a government.
What are the risks of such a clause?
Privacy. You agree that Google may access or disclose your personal information, including the content of your communications
Content of the Service. Google also reserves the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as it reasonably believes is necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (b) enforce this Agreement, including investigation of potential violations hereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (d) respond to user support requests, or (e) protect the rights, property or safety of Google, its users and the public.

According to Clause 11, Indemnification, you cannot sue Google for any use of the blog service.
Connecting this clause with the previous question, how might a service abuser benefit from such clause?
In such a case, Google will provide you with written notice of such claim, suit or action.

According to Clause 6, all blog content is licensed under the Creative Commons License.

What are the objectives of the Creative Commons License?
We may choose to submit, post, and display any materials on or through the Blogger service or Blogspot.com under a public license (e.g. a Creative Commons license), whether by manually marking our materials as such or using Blogger service tools to do so.

What other public licenses are available for use?
For avoidance of doubt, Google may choose to exercise the rights granted under (a) the public license or licenses, if any, you apply to your materials or (b) the term and services Agreement.

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