RE: License Terms on New Google Browser

["Rick Anderson" <rick.anderson@utah.edu>]

> Several news sites have reported on a serious problem within 
> the End User License Agreement (EULA) that one agrees to by 
> installing Google Chrome browser which includes a condition of 
> service that effectively lets Google use any of your 
> copyrighted material posted to the web via Chrome.

For those who believe in open access, this shouldn't be a serious 
problem at all.  What Google's licence claims is the same set of 
nonexclusive rights that one grants to Google when making one's 
original work publicly available according to the Bethesda, 
Barcelona, or Berlin Open Access protocols.

Of course, under the BBB OA protocols one grants those rights to 
everyone in the world, not just to Google.  But the effect as far 
as what Google gets is the same.

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Rick Anderson
Assoc. Dir. for Scholarly Resources & Collections
Marriott Library
University of Utah
rick.anderson@utah.edu