Adobe's New Terms Of Service

[Jill Morgan]

There is an uproar all over the creative communities over Adobe's new June 2024 Terms of Service, specifically the area where you have to give them permission to check content that you have created with their software, either with bots or actual humans. They say this is to protect against child pornography.

 

Here is a link to them trying to better explain the changes: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/10/updating-adobes-terms-of-use#:~:text=We will also separate out,your computer in any way.

 

Many of the photographers say they do work that comes with an NDA.  If they allow Adobe to scan their work, then that is breaking their NDA.  Currently they do not scan your computer, only images saved to Adobe Cloud.  But many see it expanding in that direction.

 

Also many are worried that Adobe will be using their created works for AI training.

 

I don't store anything on Adobe's Cloud.  And would certainly find it difficult to lose PS, AI, and InDesign.  Especially PS. Will Adobe start adding things such as AI training and making us allow them to search our computers in order to use their software.  They have a distinct monopoly.

 

Wondering if this is why Affinity has a 50%  off sale right now.  I may buy the current versions as backup to prep for losing PS should Adobe yield its' mighty sword and start demanding more access to our creations. I have the original Affinity software, but not the updated versions.

 

Jill

[MDM]

Old news Jill. This was discussed in another thread recently. There was a lot of panic and Adobe made a mess with this for sure with the wording of their new terms and conditions but they have since clarified. They would lose business en masse if they did. They don't search your computer. Who in their right mind would agree to that? It would contravene all sorts of privacy laws around the world. Nor do they use customers' images for training AI. I'm not worried about it in any case. 

 

[Jill Morgan]

I searched but didn't realize that thread went down this territory as well.  I think the main issue is having images stored on their servers, especially if you have an NDA with a customer. It would certainly keep me from storing stuff on Adobe Cloud, even though nothing of mine is very interesting.

 

It definitely shows where anytime there is a change in the TOS, you should check it out.  So many just agree and move on.

[MDM]

1 hour ago, Jill Morgan said:

I searched but didn't realize that thread went down this territory as well.  I think the main issue is having images stored on their servers, especially if you have an NDA with a customer. It would certainly keep me from storing stuff on Adobe Cloud, even though nothing of mine is very interesting.

 

It definitely shows where anytime there is a change in the TOS, you should check it out.  So many just agree and move on.

 

Sure. It wasn't clear from the initial document where you were giving Adobe permission to look at and I can understand the reaction but I think there were some who used the whole thing in a sensationlist way to get clicks and views. Surely if one has an NDA with anyone or anything confidential at all for that matter, the material should only be stored in a secure environment, not uploaded unencrypted to a cloud service.