Tripp Fenderson

Photoshop for FREE!

Did you hear? Adobe is launching a FREE version of Photoshop online! How awesome is that?

https://www.photoshop.com/express/

Wait though...not so fast. You may want to review their terms of service first—particularly this troublesome little note about you granting them full rights to use your content any way they darn well please.

8. Use of Your Content.

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

Thanks but no thanks, Adobe.

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March 27, 2008

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4 Comments

1. Scott Trudeau
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   I wonder how they define “publicly accessible areas” ... if I upload stuff to edit but don’t make “publicly accessible,” I don’t think I’d be giving Adobe any additional rights....

   March 27, 2008 at 11:18 AM
   
   
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   Tripp Fenderson
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   @Scott

   Again, from their terms:

   “Publicly accessible” areas of the Services are those areas of the Adobe network of properties that are intended by Adobe to be available to the general public. However, publicly accessible areas of the Services do not include Services intended for private communication or areas off the Adobe network of properties such as portions of World Wide Web sites that are accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served by Adobe.

   March 27, 2008 at 11:26 AM
   
   
3. Anitra
   3

   But then isn’t the space that they give you to share your photos part of those publicly accesible areas?

   I guess the value then would be - how useful is it purely as an editing tool, and not as a suite.

   March 27, 2008 at 12:52 PM
   
   
4. David Rencher
   4

   Regardless sounds a bit fishy to me.

   im boycotting Adobe until they port there code to linux anyway

   March 31, 2008 at 10:12 PM