Click Here to Cloud: End User Issues in Cloud Computing Terms of Service Agreements - Challenges of Information Management Beyond the Cloud - page 108

Table 4. ( Continued )

Content
Ownership
and
Limitations:
Removal of
Content (or
make content
inaccessible)

Upon proof of death Apple
“may” delete all content.
Apple can “pre-screen,
move, refuse, modify
and/or remove Content at
any time, without prior
notice and in its sole
discretion, if such Content
is found to be in violation
of this Agreement or is
otherwise objectionable.”
Apple can “modify or
change” content in order to
“comply with technical
requirements of
connecting networks or
devices or computers.”

“We reserve the right to
delete or disable
content alleged to be
infringing

“We may also
remove any content
from our Services at
our discretion.”

“If you exceed
your Service
Plan's storage
limit, including
by downgrading
or not renewing
your Service
Plan, you may
no longer be
able to access
Your Files.”

and to

terminate repeat

infringers.”

Content
Ownership
and
Limitations:
DMCA Take-
down Process

Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Use of Service
or Content:
Right to Use
Subscriber
Content

Users grant Apple a
“worldwide, royalty-free,
non-exclusive license to
use, distribute, reproduce,
modify, adapt, publish,
translate, publicly perform
and publicly display such
Content on the Service
solely for the purpose for
which such Content was
submitted

None stated. “These Terms do not

grant us any rights
to your stuff or
intellectual property
except for the
limited rights that
are needed to run the
Services,

“We may use,
access, and
retain Your
Files in order to
provide the
Service to you
and enforce the
terms of the
Agreement, and
you give us all
permissions we
need to do so.”

as

explained below.”
“You give us the
permissions we need
to do those things
solely to provide the
Services,” including
sharing with third
party providers.

or made

available, without any

compensation or

obligation to you.”

Use of Service
or Content:
Right to Use
Service

None stated. None stated. Dropbox “grants

you a limited,
nonexclusive,
nontransferable,
revocable license to
use the Software,
solely to access the
Services.” No
reverse engineering.

None stated.