05-29-2015, 08:53 PM
Been kinda lying low lately, anyway have a question about cloud photo storage.
Just heard about Google Photos last night. Been trying to find about their rights to users content.
So far I've found this:
""Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive 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, 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. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and
improving our Services, and to develop new ones."
It gives Google a broad license, yes, but you retain ownership of the material. That is substantially different
than what you suggested."
Nephew told me this morning that Flickr now gives you 1Tb of storage for free which is more than enough for
my photos but not personal videos. I haven't looked into their license agreement yet. I haven't uploaded
any photos to Flickr since 2009, I just logged in to see if anything was still there. I have plenty of storage
here at home but would like to have some sorta off-site storage for catastrophic reasons.
Really don't want to pay Apple for extra iCloud storage, I'm too cheap.
Just heard about Google Photos last night. Been trying to find about their rights to users content.
So far I've found this:
""Some of our Services allow you to upload, submit, store, send or receive 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, 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. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and
improving our Services, and to develop new ones."
It gives Google a broad license, yes, but you retain ownership of the material. That is substantially different
than what you suggested."
Nephew told me this morning that Flickr now gives you 1Tb of storage for free which is more than enough for
my photos but not personal videos. I haven't looked into their license agreement yet. I haven't uploaded
any photos to Flickr since 2009, I just logged in to see if anything was still there. I have plenty of storage
here at home but would like to have some sorta off-site storage for catastrophic reasons.
Really don't want to pay Apple for extra iCloud storage, I'm too cheap.
Grateful11
