Big Brother OWNS you!
Or at least your content. It isn't always the government you need to watch out for in this Internet day and age. Just check out this clause in Adobe's terms of use document for their new Photoshop Express:
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 and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed. [emphasis added-apparently]
Once users started to complain Adobe admitted that yes, on second thought, that is a bit extreme. They promise new, revised, improved, and slightly less frightening terms shortly.
Labels: malicious twits, technology, terrorism
posted by Clemens @ 11:35 AM
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2 Comments:
Actually (completely serious here) I think Adobe's user agreement was mostly fair. Essentially, they're saying that if you want to use their "Services" website for free, then you have to allow them to send your file to people who want to view it. The bit about using it into other Materials would likely mean (in most cases) putting example photos in places that Adobe can get some money out of the Service that you're using gratis. While it does sound icky, no one is forced to use that service to distribute their own work.
Legally - I don't doubt it. But it still raises hackles. And what it most likely means, and what it clearly says or can be interpreted as may be different things.
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