There's no way that kind of claim can stand, of course. uploaded the script for the fifth Pirates of the Caribbean movie to Google Drive, for example, under the Terms of Service, Google would have the right to republish and distribute the script, change it, make the movie itself, or write and shoot the sixth installment itself, without paying Disney a dime. If an employee of notoriously litigious Walt Disney Co. In addition to giving authors the right to publish their own work, Copyright gives them the power to prevent others from publishing it.īy that criterion, Google takes half ownership of your copyright the minute you upload it. Those rights theoretically mean Google's license is limited to using your content to promote or enrich itself.Ĭoincidentally, promoting or enriching yourself using someone else's content is one courts use to decide if copyright infringement has caused enough damage for the authors to justify punitive awards.

'When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide licence to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes that we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.' – Google Terms of Service modified March 1, 2012. If a file you upload is pirated, libelous or illegal as obscenity or a national secret, Google is just the closet where you stashed the goods.

Google can redistribute your content free or as part of a paid service, or base its next service on content you created. Specifically, the Terms of Service Google revamped and reposted March 1 gives Google all the rights and privileges of ownership, but none of the responsibilities.

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