Adobe is a dumpster fire right now with the change of their terms of use which grants them a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable license to reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works, publicly perform, the work from your files. It's "solely for the purposes of operating or improving the services and software", but that seems to be wide open for interpretation in ways you may not conceive of. If publicly displaying your work in an advertisement brings them revenue, that could be construed as improving the service. Additionally, "we may access your content through both manual and automated methods, such as for content review." ("Such as" and "for example" are dangerous phrases in contracts because it doesn’t tell you all scenarios. Content review is also nefarious because Adobe will be policing the content moderation of your own private work.)
It's now effectively illegal for professional artists to use Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and such, because artists who do work for hire are bound by non-disclosure agreements. This puts artists in the position of being sued by their clients.
Even worse, the change of terms of service were sprung upon users with a pop-up window which gives them no time to think things over, effectively holding their project files in the cloud as hostages, either accept the terms and take away your rights, or never see your precious project files ever again. You can’t even easily uninstall Photoshop without accepting the terms.
It’s a dumpster fire of apocalypse proportions.
I can foresee a mass exodus of Adobe products from commercial industries over the coming years. Adobe is all cõcky, thinking they are invincible, but even the big boys can fall hard. And good riddance.
It's now effectively illegal for professional artists to use Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and such, because artists who do work for hire are bound by non-disclosure agreements. This puts artists in the position of being sued by their clients.
Even worse, the change of terms of service were sprung upon users with a pop-up window which gives them no time to think things over, effectively holding their project files in the cloud as hostages, either accept the terms and take away your rights, or never see your precious project files ever again. You can’t even easily uninstall Photoshop without accepting the terms.
It’s a dumpster fire of apocalypse proportions.
I can foresee a mass exodus of Adobe products from commercial industries over the coming years. Adobe is all cõcky, thinking they are invincible, but even the big boys can fall hard. And good riddance.