Put it in the Cloud? Are You Nuts?
►http://jdsawyer.net/2011/07/02/put-it-in-the-cloud-are-you-nuts
As of Sat, July 2 2011, Dropbox has joined Facebook and who-knows-how-many-other ass-backward companies in declaring eminent domain on their user’s data. That’s right, boys and girls, if you’re using Dropbox for storing your manuscripts, photographs, creative works, etc., you shouuld know that their revised TOS says that:
“you grant us (and those we work with to provide the Services) worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable rights to use, copy, distribute, prepare derivative works (such as translations or format conversions) of, perform, or publicly display that stuff to the extent we think it necessary for the Service.”
In other words, they own your stuff.
Not that this would stand up for a minute in court–but do you want to be a test case?