Yes, and they should. But let's quote the actual terms of use (https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-content https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-

Yes, and they should. But let's quote the actual terms of use (https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-content https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en#toc-content ): ---- 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. ---- Considering the "limited purpose" is as vast as the services Google offers (is there anything Google doesn't do?), and that there's infinite sublicensing potential, this is not a narrow license. It's good that it's not exclusive in theory, but in practice Google is the only one able to use all of that content.