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04/07/2008, 10:55am, EDT
Monday, April 7th
Adobe restrains terms of Photoshop Express
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.
Filed under: software, digital imaging, Graphics/Web Design
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Express is just Adobe's stab at Facebook.
Basically you own your photo but you can't sue someone if you "share" the image for public viewing - then you see it end up on someone else's site for their personal use_
Also Adobe and it's partners/ affiliates have the right to use as they see fit any images that are "shared" on the PSE website_
Well, they don't actually have to do much releasing, as you're the one sticking it on a publicly accessible web site. You're the one spilling your own life.