Op-Ed: A Little Thing To Know About The Chrome Browser Before You Use It

Ready to use the new Google Chrome? If you are a writer, developer, musician or anyone who posts creative works beware. Post on Chrome and your work becomes part of the Google network. Fellows, Google isn't going to pay you a dime for your genius.

It always pays to read the fine print. Tap The Hive reports: 11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. 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. Let's say you have an up and coming band. You use your new nifty Chrome Browser to upload a video of your new song to your own blog. Someone at Chrome (aka Google) sees that video and loves your song so much that they decide to use it for a promotional campaign. Don't think you will get a royalty. They own the material. You already gave it to them. Isn't big business special? I thought you'd think so. So boys and girls are you all ready to jump on the Chrome bandwagon now? Sidenote: The link does not seem to appear on IE or Chrome but does work using Firefox.