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I couldn't find a specific legal SLA for this new service. Does anyone know if:

1) by using the service you grant Google use of the uploaded images. (e.g. they can use your image to increase their corpus, improve the service or use it for advertising, or use it to extract street numbers for their maps, or its always private and never stored)

2) What the resulting copyright is of the returned data. If you were to build a database based on the results, what license or copyright status this would be. Would all rights belong to me, or would Google claim rights over the results.

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If there's no service specific T&Cs for this, it falls under their general cloud T&Cs: https://cloud.google.com/terms/. s.5:

> 5.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth in this Agreement, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data and the Application or Project (if applicable), and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services and Software.

> 5.2 Use of Customer Data. Google will not access or use Customer Data, except as necessary to provide the Services to Customer.

Thanks! I also note that the API pages each state "This is a Beta release of Google Cloud Vision. This API is not covered by any SLA"

SLA is not the same as T&C. No SLA means there is no uptime guarantee.

Re (2): The answer to that sort of question doesn't even seem clear for other, more widely used Google products. I'm thinking Google Translate or the fonts in their office suite. Both things that most people probably don't think too much about the copyright implications of, but possibly should.

The copyright status of the vast majority of Google fonts is clear: they're open-source. https://www.google.com/fonts

Regarding translations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_for_Goog...

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