> From: MJ Ray > By posting your writing on Google Docs, you are agreeing to Google > doing pretty much anything they want with it, cost-free, including > advertising and marketing Google. They also get veto over your > writing.
The critical issue is not the liberty Google requires, but whether they reserve the privilege to restrict anyone else's liberty to the writing people have posted on Google Docs. One also assumes Google will not misattribute or misrepresent, e.g. fail to clarify that a work has been edited by them, or claim another's work as their own, nor imply that an author endorses a product or service that they do not. It is fine to demand liberty for a work, but only if one doesn't then deny it to others. So far, it is not at all clear that Google requires anything incompatible with free culture. Perhaps one could propose a 'free culture' licence that Google should suggest submitters use - that Google would find gave them all the liberty they required? One could even use the Libertarian Licence: "You are free to take any liberties you wish with my published work, with but one constraint: The liberties you take may not be withheld from those to whom you give my work (or your combined/derivative work), who you must similarly constrain." http://www.digitalproductions.co.uk/index.php?id=54 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
