Being behind, I am late in posting this information that responds to some questions about who owns the copyright for material produced using GoogleDocs. There were some rumors/doomsday posts in the blogosphere awhile back asserting that Google owns your copyright.
The answer is that the creator holds the copyright, just as the creator holds the copyright on any written or artistic creation whether or not a copyright is registered for the work. Take a look at Google's Terms of Service.
Google’s terms provide strong protection for intellectual property. Abusing other people's intellectual property rights is forbidden:
8.2 … You may not modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on this Content (either in whole or in part) unless you have been specifically told that you may do so by Google or by the owners of that Content, in a separate agreement.
It acknowledges your rights:
9.4 Other than the limited license set forth in Section 11, Google acknowledges and agrees that it obtains no right, title or interest from you (or your licensors) under these Terms in or to any Content that you submit, post, transmit or display on, or through, the Services, including any intellectual property rights which subsist in that Content (whether those rights happen to be registered or not, and wherever in the world those rights may exist). …
And,
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. …
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