Microsoft Service Agreement (New)
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Just got a notice about Skype's new agreement becoming the standard Microsoft Service Agreement[^] and stupidly decided to read it. I noticed the following:
2. Your Content. Many of our Services allow you to store or share Your Content or receive material from others. We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains Your Content and you are responsible for it.
a. [...]
b. To the extent necessary [...] to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, [...].I have removed sections that list additional uses or rights and provide examples as they obfuscate one of the many rights granted to Microsoft. Please oh please correct me if I am wrong, but I read this that if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online and have some IP of an idea such that it is stored on a Microsoft service, Microsoft can use the idea royalty free to "improve their product"? :confused:
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Just got a notice about Skype's new agreement becoming the standard Microsoft Service Agreement[^] and stupidly decided to read it. I noticed the following:
2. Your Content. Many of our Services allow you to store or share Your Content or receive material from others. We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains Your Content and you are responsible for it.
a. [...]
b. To the extent necessary [...] to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, [...].I have removed sections that list additional uses or rights and provide examples as they obfuscate one of the many rights granted to Microsoft. Please oh please correct me if I am wrong, but I read this that if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online and have some IP of an idea such that it is stored on a Microsoft service, Microsoft can use the idea royalty free to "improve their product"? :confused:
Member 3717204 wrote:
if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online
Why would you do that? Are you a noob? :sigh:
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Member 3717204 wrote:
if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online
Why would you do that? Are you a noob? :sigh:
I said IF. I use none of them, I posted for others benefit.
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Member 3717204 wrote:
if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online
Why would you do that? Are you a noob? :sigh:
I'm using Outlook for 17 years now, and I think everyone *not* using it must be a noob.
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Just got a notice about Skype's new agreement becoming the standard Microsoft Service Agreement[^] and stupidly decided to read it. I noticed the following:
2. Your Content. Many of our Services allow you to store or share Your Content or receive material from others. We don’t claim ownership of Your Content. Your Content remains Your Content and you are responsible for it.
a. [...]
b. To the extent necessary [...] to improve Microsoft products and services, you grant to Microsoft a worldwide and royalty-free intellectual property license to use Your Content, [...].I have removed sections that list additional uses or rights and provide examples as they obfuscate one of the many rights granted to Microsoft. Please oh please correct me if I am wrong, but I read this that if I use Onedrive or outlook or 365 online and have some IP of an idea such that it is stored on a Microsoft service, Microsoft can use the idea royalty free to "improve their product"? :confused:
It's effectively a standard term in their service agreement to protect their ass, and this type of agreement is probably in a lot of products on the web that you use. Could be related to Cortana, it searches in several places for information and even uses your emails in order to provide information such as events, order delivery dates, etc. Agreements such as this, in a sane court of law, won't affect your rights of IP, not sure how crazy the law system is over where ever you are, but over here in the UK MS wouldn't get away with pulling a stunt ripping off IP from its users. ( I would hope, at least, the system is stupid but sane against its own stupidity)