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I strongly suspect that, if you try, you'll find you can imitate her rants without using her words.
Google clearly (but buried in very fine print) claims all copyright to anything that passes through any of their services.Whether this wholesale claim where permission is assumed by agreeing to all the terms included in screens and screens of fine print will be supported by courts if a case ever gets there, is dubious.
If I understand you correctly, this means that, if I send a novel, non-fiction book, article, or short story to my publisher or agent as an e-mail attachment, or in the body of an e-mail, through an e-mail service owned or controlled by Googe, Google can claim to own it!That's positively chilling.
Byron,They are not going to use your emailed copy of the Constitution. What they might use is information distributed by someone who has subsequently become famous or infamous, and without any specific permission of the user, since they can claim by clicking on 'accept their terms' you have already turned over all your rights to them.This data then can be published in some way that earns money for Google, without further permission from the victim, and without paying them. That would be a very valid court case if it were to happen.Elena
Hi Chuck,Interesting question. Here is what I know about the status of intellectual property on the internet at the moment. Basically it is illegalish - It's a definite grey area. One of the things it depends on is who actually owns the copyright. This is a very difficult area since in both Google and Yahoo supported blogs or forums the contents are claimed by the companies. It's in the fine print. Even e-mails and photos transmitted via Google. Google clearly (but buried in very fine print) claims all copyright to anything that passes through any of their services.Elena