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After the public beta release of Google’s very own web browser Google Chrome, several users contacted Google to express concern at Section 11 of the product’s terms of service which noted that the service gives Google “rights to any user-generated content “submitted, posted or displayed on or through” the browser.

Google has since updated it’s terms of service:

"You’ll notice if you look at our other products that many of them are governed by Section 11 of our Universal Terms of Service. This section is included because, under copyright law, Google needs what’s called a “license” to display or transmit content. So to show a blog, we ask the user to give us a license to the blog’s content. (The same goes for any other service where users can create content.) But in all these cases, the license is limited to providing the service. In Gmail, for example, the terms specifically disclaim our ownership right to Gmail content."

"So for Google Chrome, only the first sentence of Section 11 should have applied. We’re sorry we overlooked this, but we’ve fixed it now, and you can read the updated Google Chrome terms of service. If you’re into the fine print, here’s the revised text of Section 11:"

• " 11. Content license from you
  11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services."

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Source - Official Google Blog