A co-worker pointed out this little bit from the much-hyped Google Chrome today.
"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."
I am a pretty free-wheeling guy when it comes to content ownership. If my name or a link back to the original content appears with something I wrote, I am cool with it. This sounds like some over-zealous legal eagle tried to reach a little bit. The End User Licenses Agreements (EULA) I agree to on a regular basis probably sign away rights to a firstborn child, but I cannot think of the last time I bothered to read more than a paragraph or two of one.