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yup...just proves the suspicion: the software guys just copy/pasted some boilerplate and inserted a few specific clauses without re-reading the whole document or double-checking what it really says.

The OP is correct, though: Google has an army of lawyers and should have caught this.




Google should spend ts considerable resources coming up with a "compiler" for legal docs. You just type in s few one line sentences describing the rights you'd like to have and the compiler checks for consistency errors and then generates a legal document (probably 100 pages long) filled with all of the right "magic words".


Google Law... now THAT would be an undertaking.

If Google's goal is to organize the world's information, law is definitely some of the most opaque information for non-specialists.




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