Content-rights flap muddies debut of Google’s cloud storage


Microsoft Corp.’s rival storage service, called SkyDrive, also imposes a content licensing agreement similar to Google Drive.

Dropbox Inc., a rapidly growing storage service, tells users that “we may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction …. You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the services.”

Like Google Drive, both SkyDrive and Dropbox stress that content stored on their services remains the property of the user.

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