A change to Adobe’s terms and conditions for programs like Photoshop has angered many professional users, worried that the company is claiming the right to access, freely use, and even sub-license their content to others.
The company is requiring users to agree to new terms to continue using Adobe apps, blocking them until they do so…
Adobe says its new terms “clarify that we may access your content through both automated and manual methods, such as for content review.”
The terms say:
You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, license-free license to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, publicly perform, solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software. , and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to Content to our service providers or other users to allow the services and Software to work with others, such as allowing you to share photos.
Designer Air breakerHe was one of the graphic professionals who challenged the terms, counting DC Comics and Nike among his clients.
Here it is. If you’re a professional, under an NDA with your clients, a creator, a lawyer, a doctor, or anyone who works with proprietary documents – it’s time to cancel Adobe, remove all apps and programs. Adobe cannot be trusted.
Film director Duncan Jones was equally frank in his answer.
Hey @Photoshop, what was that new contract you made us sign this morning that locked out our app until we agreed? We’re working on a bloody movie here and NO, suddenly you don’t have rights to anything we do on it because we’re paying you to use photoshop. What the f**k is that?!
Concept artist Santala himself noted that you cannot raise a support request to discuss the terms without agreeing to them. You can’t even uninstall apps!
I can’t even go to your support chat to question this unless I agree to these terms beforehand.
I can’t even uninstall Photoshop until I agree to these terms? are you kidding me
Some speculate that the terms are simply to allow the creation of thumbnails from files stored in Adobe’s cloud storage, while others suggest that it may refer to CSAM scanning – something that almost all cloud services do.
If any of these innocent explanations apply, Adobe has failed to fully explain the intent of the terms, and users are not happy about it.
We’ve reached out to the company for comment and will update with any response.
9to5Mac collage of screenshots Air breaker and by the picture Milad Fakurian about Splash
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