Change to Adobe terms & conditions outrages many professionals

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/06/change-to-adobe-terms-amp-conditions

 

The terms say:

Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or to other users to allow the Services and Software to operate with others, such as enabling you to share photos

 

Designer Wetterschneider, who counts DC Comics and Nike among his clients, was one of the graphics pros to object to the terms.

Here it is. If you are a professional, if you are under NDA with your clients, if you are a creative, a lawyer, a doctor or anyone who works with proprietary files – it is time to cancel Adobe, delete all the apps and programs. Adobe can not be trusted.

 

Movie director Duncan Jones was equally blunt in his response.

Hey @Photoshop what the hell was that new agreement you forced us to sign this morning that locked our ap until we agree to it? We are working on a bloody movie here, and NO, you don’t suddenly have the right to any of the work we are doing on it because we pay you to use photoshop. What the f**k?!

 

 

Should you ditch Photoshop with immediate effect?

https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/should-you-ditch-photoshop-with-immediate-effect/

 

 

Adobe’s response

https://hothardware.com/news/adobe-responds-to-creator-outrage-over-controversial-photoshop-tos-update

 

Adobe is not claiming ownership over the content you create in Photoshop. Likewise, it will not use customer content to train its Firefly generative AI model.

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