05-30-2015, 02:39 PM
Sam3 wrote:
You guys really want to give Google allowance to take your pictures and use them for their purposes? Possible having a picture of your child plastered all over the internet for an ad of Google? Your child's photo photoshopped to look like they are a cripple for other promotional uses?
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.
I'd rather pay for a site like Smugmug where I retain all rights to my photos. I can hide and lock them down as much as I like, or I can show them to the world.
Paranoia aside. You can do the same with Google Photos. They basically want the right to present your images by location and to auto apply "automagic" features, which is cool. I pay for SmugMug in order to sell photos but they don't offer any more rights management, photo management than the free flickr.com. What SmugMug offers over flickr is the selling of images. That's it.