The New Change to Adobe’s Terms and Conditions

I’m really losing my mind…

Prima Meta feeds its users’ posts to its new artificial intelligence, and now Adobe is the victim of a delirium of omnipotence that seriously risks destroying its credibility permanently and actually categorizing all its products as spyware!

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

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C749gtVPWh4/?igsh=MTUwcWJmMDg1bTJuNw==

https://x.com/Grummz/status/1798609952719904880

I can’t personally confirm because (thank goodness) I abandoned Adobe just in time, so I’m also asking users who use it if they can confirm this for me. It seems absurd to me, if it were true it would be a very serious decision.

Apparently now the company, thanks to a new update, requires users to accept these new Terms and Conditions in order to continue using their services, and one of the points that raised the eyebrows of many professionals in the sector was the following paragraph:

"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"

Translated with Google "Solely for the purpose of using or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works from, publicly display and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or other users to enable the Services and Software to work with others"

It seems that for many, when opening apps like Photoshop, but apparently also Adobe PDF for example, this little window appeared saying that Adobe can access their contents via both automated and manual methods, for example for reviewing content.

As if that wasn’t enough, from many testimonials it also seems that you can’t even change or cancel your subscription plans with Adobe without first accepting these terms, they really hold them hostage.

Source: https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/06/06/adobes-new-terms-of-service-unacceptably-gives-them-access-to-all-of-your-projects-for-free

Everyone who is under NDA? Confidential documents from lawyers and doctors, do those count too? These people seriously risk ending up dragged to court!

For the record, Adobe released an official statement after the shitstorm on social media obviously started (type "Adobe" and find out how deep the rabbit hole goes), in which they denied wanting to use that material for their Ai Firefly (but the suspicion remains, especially given that at the beginning they justified this decision as calling it ‘something they were already doing for years, that there was no reason to worry’, the classic "Don’t Panic"), and that the content review is to monitor any child pornography content.

Source: https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/07/adobe-terms-clarified/

I wonder, (besides the veracity of this decision, I repeat, I abandoned Animate last year to move to the more used Toon Boom Harmony, I can’t verify firsthand) given that we in Europe are famous enough to keep these controversial decisions away Let’s call them that, has this update reached us or has it only reached American citizens for now?

I’m personally enjoying this whole shitstorm with popcorn in my hand… If what’s being said around is true, Adobe really risks losing not only its credibility, which has already been shaky for years, but really a lot of customers, and instead get a ton of court cases for this thing…

Is it possible that there is never anyone in the control rooms who timidly raises their hand and says "in my opinion this is a joke… Can we rethink it for a second to make it at least a little more digestible for our customers?"

Sorry for the papyrus, thank you for your attention.