Comments on: Google Video updates Terms of Service (TOS) http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051223/2772/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:08:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051223/2772/#comment-44266 TDavid Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:58:52 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051223/2772/#comment-44266 Imran - I read your post and to answer the question at the end: yes, I do think you are reading too much into it. I'm not a lawyer but I read the modify stuff to mean that Google maintains the right to add commercials to your video if they like. Perhaps as intros or outros. This doesn't sound outlandish to me. I also think they will clip out sections of videos to promote. The whole China thing is a whole other situation altogether and every publisher has this to deal with, not just Google. If you want to publish your videos over there then you may have to alter content. Heck, rating bureaus exist for movies. China has their own laws and Google has to comply or they won't be able to keep their content running there for anybody. I seriously doubt Google will be editing individual videos for other than adding commercials or snipping out promotional pieces which they should be able to do if they are hosting them for free, but if you can point ot actual documented cases where this is happening I'd be very interested to read about it. Imran - I read your post and to answer the question at the end: yes, I do think you are reading too much into it.

I’m not a lawyer but I read the modify stuff to mean that Google maintains the right to add commercials to your video if they like. Perhaps as intros or outros. This doesn’t sound outlandish to me. I also think they will clip out sections of videos to promote.

The whole China thing is a whole other situation altogether and every publisher has this to deal with, not just Google. If you want to publish your videos over there then you may have to alter content. Heck, rating bureaus exist for movies. China has their own laws and Google has to comply or they won’t be able to keep their content running there for anybody.

I seriously doubt Google will be editing individual videos for other than adding commercials or snipping out promotional pieces which they should be able to do if they are hosting them for free, but if you can point ot actual documented cases where this is happening I’d be very interested to read about it.

]]> By: Imran Anwar http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051223/2772/#comment-44264 Imran Anwar Sat, 24 Dec 2005 04:36:20 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051223/2772/#comment-44264 Unless you want to give Google the right to MODIFY (not just REFORMAT) your content and message, please do read the Google Video Terms of Service. Check this out and tell others who may be simply clicking ACCEPT without reading: http://imran.com/media/blog/2005/12/google-has-right-to-modify-your-videos.html Thanks. Imran Unless you want to give Google the right to MODIFY (not just REFORMAT) your content and message, please do read the Google Video Terms of Service. Check this out and tell others who may be simply clicking ACCEPT without reading:

http://imran.com/media/blog/2005/12/google-has-right-to-modify-your-videos.html

Thanks.

Imran

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