Dropbox updates Terms of Use [UPDATE]

We're using cloud services more and more with our Windows Phones, as well as with other devices. One such service, Dropbox, tin't seem to catch a break these days.

Start, we have the Dropbox Reader that tin can drill into your accounts. Then Dropbox left the dorsum door open to their services that essentially removed password protection. At present we see the cloud storage visitor has updated its Terms of Services claiming "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free, sublicenseable rights" to your stuff (yes, they use the word stuff in a legal document).

The TOS agreement may not be alarming to some but we thought you should know how Dropbox considers the content you identify in their hands.

To quote from Dropbox's TOS:

"By submitting your stuff to the Services, you grant u.s.a. (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to employ, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such equally translations or format conversions) of, perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent reasonably necessary for the Service. This license is solely to enable us to technically administrate, brandish, and operate the Services. You must ensure you have the rights you lot need to grant u.s. that permission."

Dropbox does recognize that you lot retain ownership of your stuff and they clarify how they might employ your stuff in their Privacy Policy. Basically they tin collect your personal information to be used to contact or place you lot in society to improve services and to better understand your needs and interests. They besides have provisions to use your geo-location information and logging/cookie data.

Google has similar linguistic communication (they use "content" instead of "stuff" and ) with their TOS but SkyDrive takes on a unlike approach. Microsoft doesn't ask for ownership but rather rights to access your content. Hither's how Microsoft words things:

"You lot understand that Microsoft may need, and you hereby grant Microsoft the right, to use, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, and display content posted on the service solely to the extent necessary to provide the service."

It may sound as if all 3 are saying the same thing merely a "right to access" and "sublicenseable rights" can be worlds autonomously. Granted I don't recollect Dropbox will starting time exercising their "ownership rights" merely the wording of these TOS Agreements should give us pause as to what nosotros put in the cloud besides as what service we choose.

source: Liveside

Update: In an endeavour to brand it articulate that Dropbox isn't claiming ownership rights to your "stuff", Dropbox has decided to brand some revisions to their updated TOS. On their blog site, Dropbox states that "The language in this clause was more technical than it needed to exist." Believing terms similar "derivative works" and "sublicensable" could come across overly broad or out of place the revisions states,

"You retain full ownership to your stuff. We don't claim whatsoever buying to any of it. These Terms practice not grant us any rights to your stuff or intellectual property except for the limited rights that are needed to run the Services, as explained below."

The only instances Dropbox will share your stuff is outlined in the Privacy Policy (which hasn't changed). While the TOS could have been worded simpler, it'south nice to meet Dropbox responding to customer concerns.

Thanks Rene for the tip!

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