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Posted on: Mon, 03/31/2008 - 14:51
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Adobe grabs images and all rights .... on new Photoshop Express website

www.photoshop.com/express/index.html

8. Use of Your Content.

1. 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.


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Posted on: Sun, 04/06/2008 - 21:43 #1
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New terms and conditions for Photoshop Express are at http://www.photoshop.com/express/pxterms.html

Much better, discriminating between the minimal rights Adobe needs in order to provide the service, and rights necessary to facilitate sharing of your material with others:-

You hereby grant Other Users a worldwide (because the internet is global), royalty-free (meaning that Other Users do not owe you any money), nonexclusive (meaning you are free to license Your Content to others) license to view, download, print, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display Your Shared Content subject to the limitations in Section 7. If you do not wish to grant these rights in Your Shared Content then do not share Your Content with Other Users. While you have the ability to remove Your Content from the service and/or the public areas within the Service and thus prevent future licenses from being granted, you acknowledge and agree that once Your Shared Content has been shared, Adobe can neither monitor nor control what Other Users do with it.

Well done Adobe!

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Posted on: Wed, 04/02/2008 - 14:16 #2
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Also maybe worth mentioning:

It also seems that:

3. Sharing Your Photos:
....and recipients may in the future be able to share Your Content with others, add Your Content to their own accounts, and make photographic prints of Your Content.....

As apparently FaceBook and Flickr can be accessed/shared from the site, not sure it's detailed enough information if it includes any of these services?

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Posted on: Mon, 03/31/2008 - 16:42 #3
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.. be interested if they do revise their world domineering terms and conditions otherwise a lot of pro-sumers (what a horrible word) could get suckered right in ...

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Posted on: Mon, 03/31/2008 - 15:09 #4
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I saw that last week and was unsure whether to flag it up here because Adobe quickly said they'd revise these terms. Photoshop Express offers a 'sharing' facility which allows any image you upload to become common property of visitors to adjust and incorporate (make derivative works from) and download - basically public domain. I thought that's what Adobe were possibly trying to accomodate in the T&C's, but the lawyers had gone for full world domination as usual.

Here it crashed Firefox impressively hard after a few minutes use.

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