Several potential areas of concern there posted @ Jacobian.org…

At first I was thrilled, but the terms of service are disconcerting at best. Here’s some excerpts:

By accepting this Agreement and uploading Your Authorized Content to Google, you are directing and authorizing Google to, and granting Google a royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license to, host, cache, route, transmit, store, copy, distribute, perform, display, reformat, excerpt, analyze, and create algorithms based on the Authorized Content.

In other words, “we can do anything we want with your content.”

Google reserves the right to display advertisements in connection with any display of Your Authorized Content.

In other words, “we can make money from advertising your content.”

You may use the Uploader for the sole purpose of providing Your Authorized Content to Google. […] You may not use the Uploader for any other reason, including but not limited to […] (ii) modifying, adapting, translating, or reverse engineering any portion of the Uploader; […]

In other words, “If you create your own version of a video upload that runs on Linux or Mac, we’ll sue you.”

In the event We decide in our sole discretion to charge for video playback of any of Your Authorized Content, We will pay to You seventy percent (70%) of the gross revenues, if any, recognized by Google and attributable to such video playback of Your Authorized Content based upon the price you designate. If We incur extraordinary costs and expenses in hosting, indexing and displaying Your Authorized Content relative to its designated price, then We may retain a greater percentage of the revenues in order to defray these costs. If You have not designated a price for Your Authorized Content and We incur extraordinary costs and expenses in hosting, indexing and displaying Your Authorized Content, we may charge a fee in order to defray these costs.

In other words, “you get 70% of revenues, unless we decide it cost us too much, then you get less. By the way, we decide what ‘too much’, and ‘less’ means. Oh, and if your free video is popular, we’ll bill you for the bandwidth.”

14. Privacy and Information Rights. […] In addition, You agree that Google may transfer and disclose this information, including personally identifiable information, to third parties for the purpose of approving and enabling your participation in the Program, including to third parties that reside in jurisdictions with less restrictive data laws than Your own.

In other words, “we’re going to sell your name and email address to spammers.”

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