Photoshop Express terms

Adobe has reacted to criticism and revised the terms of service for Photoshop Express, its recently-launched web version of the popular photo-editing software. Under the the original terms, Adobe effectively claimed the rights to use images for whatever purposes it wanted, including potentially selling them to third parties. The new contract language restricts Adobe's rights, limiting them exclusively to what is needed "in order to operate the Service and in order to enable you to do all the things this Service affords you the ability to do."

Also revised are the rights granted to Adobe and others for shared content; the company notes, however, that users have more distribution rights, and that photographers or other artists worried about copyright infringement should not share Express files with anyone, at least not without any watermarking.

The new terms will not technically take effect until April 10th, nominally as a means of giving users a chance to review changes and decide whether they want to stay with the website.

by MacNN Staff