publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content Lines like this are usually included in terms of service to allow the provider to actua

publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content Lines like this are usually included in terms of service to allow the provider to actually host and distribute that content. It doesn't sound like an ownership clause. It sounds like giving permission to Google to store your data so you can retrieve from anywhere. And I agree with others, there is no doubt the terms will get tweaked to look like the others. But with one exception: they will include a clause to allow them to index your content for searching and potentially advertising purposes. I don't think most others would have a clause like that. Dropbox can search by filenames, but can they search content as well? I don't think they can.