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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 05:04 PM EDT |
| It's all very well some government official dropping an
(in)discrete word to the press. Apple bashers could perhaps pause to
reflect on the quality of justice in
China if it can be leaned on so simply by
the government. If Apple loses this case then somebody else will be
facing
fraud charges for selling a trademark they didn't own, and similar cases of
"economic sabotage" have
resulted in capital punishment. Meanwhile
in other news one quarter of Apple's revenue now
comes from the Chinese market. We might expect a
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 09:37 PM EDT |
The Newspick points out that if you (easily)
exceed the basic service limits, then Google Drive will cost you money.
Another
forum I read pointed out some hooks in the ToS which would have seekers of that
other freedom frothing at the
mouth. AFAICT the ToS for Google Drive seem to be
subsumed with all Google "Services". Given Groklaw's quite proper
consideration
for legal advice, I advise intending users of Google Drive to ask their own
Legal Advisor how to reconcile these
two paragraphs:
Some of our
Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual
property rights that you hold in that
content. In short, what belongs to you
stays yours.
When you upload or otherwise submit content to 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.
Google Terms of
Service
I can't find if there are any modifications to those ToS
specifically for Google Drive, because the service is "coming soon" in my
part
of the world.
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| Authored by: complex_number on Wednesday, April 25 2012 @ 11:43 PM EDT |
| [www.adajournal.com]
The
article asks the question, have you found something on the internet that was
stolen from you?
Well, yes I have. BUT there was little I could do about
it.
I found a picture of a 'Giraffe Necked Weevil' on the internet. This
particulat beast is a native of Madagascar and is an insect I like and have
studied in its native habitat. I found one of my pictures of said weevil on a US
Site. I sent a DMCA takedown but this was ignored and the image remained on the
site for all to see. My recourse would have been to sue but I don't have the
money to pay for a US Lawyer to do it for me. So I had to let it go because the
US Courts seemingly do not recognise judgements made outside the USA. No
surprise their then.
The image remained on the site for three years until the
whole site disappeared.
I have sold a few photographs, but most of the time I
let people use them if they ask and give a donation to a wildlife charity of my
choosing. That way I don't have to declare the income to the taxman. But there
are still people who feel that they have rights to my work without even
acknowledgement.
I might take a different view if I was a professional
photographer.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The
Universe & Everything which is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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