Using Dropbox for images? read this..

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Hi All,

Just a head's up:

If you use dropbox for moving your images around or storage, you might want to check their new T&C's might not be good for your images! :

"Dropbox recently updated their TOS, Privacy Policy, and Security Overview. Included in the TOS is the following statement: 'By submitting your stuff to the Services, 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."
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/07/02/0515218/Dropbox-TOS-Includes-Broad-Copyright-License
 
That's pretty shocking! I don't use it for many images, but will not use it for images at all now.

Cheers for the heads up.
 
Hmm. Along with the security problems they've been having lately, they may lose any business they had left.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/dropbox_security/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/16/dropbox_ftc_not_good_enough/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/21/dropbox_security_issue/

I've only used it to transfer image files to a freelance web designer we use to help out when I'm too busy at work; so I wasn't so worried by people being able to access material that was shortly going to be publicly available on my company's web site, but if they're claiming use rights to my IP, then I won't be using them any more.

Back to using my ftp server for file transfer.
 
Ouch!

I use Dropbox religiously, but thankfully not for my photos
 
I use it too, for quite a few personal things. I think I will stop right now.
 
This change gives Dropbox the right to use anything you store. Which also means they can read and do whatever they like with the files... so, if anyone's got anything they'd rather be kept private, don't use Dropbox. Just to scare you a little more, if you've posted up copies of letters to your bank, say, they could read that and then pass on the information to another bank...!

In short, it's a snooper's charter. Not even a Western European government can read your mail without a warrant/court order. George Orwell, poor b****r, thought that governments were the problem, seems it's business and their desperate content provider lackeys.

Don't say you haven't had a heads up.
 
Glad I read this, just installed it to allow people to send me RAW files for editing... Swiftly uninstalled again.
 
They amended the wording yesterday. Not sure if this happened before or after the publication of the Slashdot article. Either way, I'm somewhat less alarmed over this particular issue than upon first reading.

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846

[this was the link posted in the Slashdot article]

Dropbox said:
You retain ownership to your stuff. You are also solely responsible for your conduct, the content of your files and folders, and your communications with others while using the Services.

We sometimes need your permission to do what you ask us to do with your stuff (for example, hosting, making public, or sharing your files). By submitting your stuff to the Services, 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 reasonably necessary for the Service. This license is solely to enable us to technically administer, display, and operate the Services. You must ensure you have the rights you need to grant us that permission.
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[their emphasis]

According to the text in the blog and some of the commentary afterward, it's to allow them to legally do things like host a .doc file you have uploaded and serve it to other people as a .pdf or the creation of web previews and thumbnails, etc. (which is part of the service they offer their users) which would otherwise be an unauthorised modification of the work uploaded to Dropbox - i.e. the creation of a derivative work.

In the terminology of Slashdot, you need to RTFA. From long experience (nearly fifteen years of being a member) Slashdot's editors' summaries are not infrequently somewhat misleading.

That said, Dropbox could have been more transparent in their wording in the first place.
 
Musicman said:
They amended the wording yesterday. Not sure if this happened before or after the publication of the Slashdot article. Either way, I'm somewhat less alarmed over this particular issue than upon first reading.

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846

[this was the link posted in the Slashdot article]



[their emphasis]

According to the text in the blog and some of the commentary afterward, it's to allow them to legally do things like host a .doc file you have uploaded and serve it to other people as a .pdf or the creation of web previews and thumbnails, etc. (which is part of the service they offer their users) which would otherwise be an unauthorised modification of the work uploaded to Dropbox - i.e. the creation of a derivative work.

In the terminology of Slashdot, you need to RTFA. From long experience (nearly fifteen years of being a member) Slashdot's editors' summaries are not infrequently somewhat misleading.

That said, Dropbox could have been more transparent in their wording in the first place.
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That's good, I was about to pull my account which would have been a pain as I use it to backup my website via plugin.
 
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