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A partner isn’t a partner unless you have a signed contract

by cbsks 7y ago

panpanna 7y ago
Oh, there is a contract. It's just very one-sided.
- hedora 7y ago
  Indeed it is one sided. I wonder if the courts will agree this applies to content that web servers transmit to google’s crawler. If so, can I add such an agreement to my homepage, and claim it applies to all the http requests I initiate?: > When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
  - jrockway 7y ago
    HTTP has a builtin mechanism for this; you can send 200 OK if you want copyright law to control the use of your content, or 403 Forbidden if you want more restrictions. Google, of course, does not super care about your extra conditions, so the 403 route probably isn't going to get you much.
- Jabbles 7y ago
  Interestingly, there is a legal term related to one-sided contracts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
xfitm3 7y ago
I have a contract for gapps, I have not been burned yet but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.

A partner isn’t a partner unless you have a signed contract

by cbsks 7y ago

A partner isn’t a partner unless you have a signed contract

panpanna 7y ago

Oh, there is a contract. It's just very one-sided.

hedora 7y ago
Indeed it is one sided. I wonder if the courts will agree this applies to content that web servers transmit to google’s crawler. If so, can I add such an agreement to my homepage, and claim it applies to all the http requests I initiate?: > When you upload, submit, store, send or receive content to or through our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.
- jrockway 7y ago
  HTTP has a builtin mechanism for this; you can send 200 OK if you want copyright law to control the use of your content, or 403 Forbidden if you want more restrictions. Google, of course, does not super care about your extra conditions, so the 403 route probably isn't going to get you much.
Jabbles 7y ago
Interestingly, there is a legal term related to one-sided contracts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability

xfitm3 7y ago

I have a contract for gapps, I have not been burned yet but I’m sure it’s just a matter of time.