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by penagwin 2601 days ago
> These terms will survive termination or expiration of the Agreement.

Is this legal? Forgive me because I actually don't know if it could be?

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It's standard, even though it's a bit of a weird concept when you think about it: https://www.adamsdrafting.com/survival/

A common case is an employment contract that has an NDA or non-compete or non-poaching section survive the employment itself. I can't say, "I quit, therefore my employment contract doesn't apply any more, therefore I'm going to push all the company secrets to GitHub and you can't stop me."

I guess that if someone doesn't think the terms are legal, they are fully entitled to take it to court against an army of Google lawyers...

Does someone knows of some instance of ToS from a big company being challenged in court?

IANAL, but I seen many agreements with the language like this.
To be fair, "Warranty Void if Removed" stickers are common but in many cases have no legal standing both in the US, EU, etc. They're just a common "boilerplate" kinda item.