Creators opened Photoshop this week to find a new pop-up informing them of changes to the terms of service. It’s not all that unusual: companies change their TOS all the time, and just to ignore pop-ups, you’ve probably signed (so to speak) more times in your life than you can count. can.
However, upon closer inspection, Adobe’s adjustment here is beyond light: creators reading the pop-up realize that Adobe isn’t changing permissions here and permissions there. Rather, the company claims that they now have the right to access the work generated by these programs for a myriad of purposes, including, not least, for training AI.
Terms of Service, As listed on Adobe’s site., has appeared since February 17 this year, and appears to apply to all Adobe apps. However, the company seems to have rolled out the pop-up to Photoshop users for the first time this week. Although there are several sections explaining the new changes, Section 2.2 summarizes the situation:
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2.2 Our Access to Your Content. We may access, view or listen to your Content (defined in Section 4.1 (Content) below) by both automated and manual means, but only in limited ways, and only as permitted by law. For example, to provide the Services and Software, we may need to access, view, or listen to your Content to (A) respond to feedback or support requests; (B) DETECTING, PREVENTING, OR OTHERWISE RESOLVING FRAUD, SECURITY, LEGAL, OR TECHNICAL PROBLEMS; and (C) enforce the Terms, as further described in Section 4.1 below. Our Services and Software and our automated systems use techniques such as machine learning to improve your content and Creative Cloud Customer Fonts (described in Section 3.10 (Creative Cloud Customer Fonts) below). Can analyze. Information about how Adobe uses machine learning can be found here: http://www.adobe.com/go/machine_learning.
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Naturally, the creators did not take the new rules well. Sam Santala, founder of Songhorn Studios, Posted on X, Cursing Adobe to lock it out of Photoshop until it agrees to give the company full access to its work:
The tweet may have been deleted.
Director Duncan Jones was equally angry.: His post called out Adobe for interfering with his film, and the ridiculous nature of demanding access to creators’ work simply because they used the company’s software to produce that work. have been. Jones has since deleted this post.
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Adobe’s pop-up prevents creators from using Photoshop until they agree to the changes to the terms of service. Santala says he can’t even uninstall Photoshop without first agreeing to the changes, which effectively binds creators: either allow Adobe unlimited access to their work, or Photoshop off their computers. But let’s convert to digital paperweight.
X is full of creators lobbing similar complaints at Adobe, though the company has yet to comment on the situation. As of this article, the Terms of Service still reflect these changes.
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