트위터에서 "충격! 구글 드라이브, "업로드한 자료는 법적으로 구글 소유, 구글이 재배포 가능" 이라는 글을 보고 '무슨일이지?'라는 생각이 들어 찾아보고 이 글을 씁니다.
일단 구글의 약관을 보면,
Your Content in our Services: 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.
The rights that you grant in this licence are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This licence continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing that you have added to Google Maps).
즉 구글에 파일을 업로드하면 구글과 그들의 파트너에게 나의 파일을 사용하고 재배포하고 다시 사용하고 저장하는 라이센스를 넘긴다는 뜻인데. 그러면 그 파일의 저작권은 제가 아니라 구글이 가지게 되는 것일까요?
이 이슈에 대해서 CNET 의 글을 보니
"You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours."
결국 저작권을 넘기는건 아니고 저작권의 소유자는 구글이 아닌 업로더에게 남겨진다는 뜻인데요, 왜이리 헷갈리게 정책을 적어 놓았을까요?
구글을 제외한 다른 클라우드 서비스 사들은 확고하게 소유권은 자기들이 아닌 유저가 가지고 있다라고 명시하고 있는데요
마이크로소프트의 스카이 드라이브는
5. Your Content: Except for material that we license to you, we don’t claim ownership of the content you provide on the service. Your content remains your content. We also don’t control, verify, or endorse the content that you and others make available on the service.
Box reserves the right to share aggregated demographic information about our customers, sales, and traffic to our partners and advertisers. We will not give, sell, rent, share, or trade any of your personal information or any data that you store using our services to any third party except as outlined in this Policy or with your consent. We may disclose information to a third party to (a) comply with laws or respond to lawful requests and legal process, (b) to protect Box, agents, customers, and others including to enforce our agreements, policies and terms of use or (c) in the good faith belief that disclosure is needed to respond to an emergency, or protect the personal safety of any person.
Your Stuff & Your Privacy: By using our Services you provide us with information, files, and folders that you submit to Dropbox (together, “your stuff”). You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don’t claim any ownership to any of it. These Terms do not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below.
Except for material we may license to you, Apple does not claim ownership of the materials and/or Content you submit or make available on the Service. However, by submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you.
쉽게말해 아무도 구글처럼 애매한 약관을 써놓아서 유저들을 헷갈리게 하고 있지는 않습니다.
