Adobe restrains terms of Photoshop Express
updated 10:55 am EDT, Mon April 7, 2008
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.
Wow...
04/07, 11:26am reply
That's some pretty shady business going on there.
Omek
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Orwellian in nature
04/07, 01:09pm reply
Georgy would be proud! And people thought the Homeland Security Act was bad. This is where the snooping happens. Companies releasing these online goodies where people will just spill their whole lives out for all to see.
Express is just Adobe's stab at Facebook.
manleycreative
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old news...
04/07, 05:51pm reply
this was everywhere in the middle of last week when Adobe made an announcement that it was revising it's ToS_
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_
UberFu
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Re: orwellian
04/07, 06:47pm reply
Companies releasing these online goodies where people will just spill their whole lives out for all to see.
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.
testudo
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Security matters
04/07, 10:44pm reply
Anybody who uses an online service is opening up a huge can of worms for themselves. The model of software as a service is just the latest marketing fad to lock customers into a service/application/product. Google is trying it. MSFT thinks they need to go there. Adobe is stumbling into that space. Not me. Call me old fashioned, call me a romantic, call me so-yesterday. Give me software to buy, that I install on my computer, and that I own, and can do with whatever my creativity demands. I stay in control, not some damned corporation.
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