Originally Posted by OnTheAsile

Your Content in our Services
When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content."

Yep

Originally Posted by ScottC

Selective cut/paste?

Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

Originally Posted by OnTheAsile

Apparently "you retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold" but "you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license"..."Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services."

Selective YES. This is not meant to be a discussion of Google's policies. That is why there is a direct link to the policies. There is a tendency of these threads digress from the main topic.
The message is BEWARE. I am not a lawyer but the wording appears to be tricky and in conflict with itself. Most people never read the terms but just agree and continue on. Up to the individual to decide...

Full Content:
"Your Content in our Services
Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services. "

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