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"While there had been much anticipation surrounding the release of Adobe Photoshop Express, once it got here people were less than thrilled when they came upon the End User License Agreement (EULA).\nUnder the original version of the EULA, users essentially signed away most all rights to Adobe for any image they uploaded to the service:\nUse of Your Content: 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.\nAs David Chartier of Ars Technica pointed out, this essentially gave Adobe the right to do anything the company pleased with your images; you could even have found your photo of Uncle Jake's birthday party on their retail packaging.\nOnce Adobe was contacted, they agreed the wording was too strong and that they would work on it to make it clearer what exactly what their rights were.\nWell, Rob Pegoraro of the Washington Post has reported that the revision is out, but to this non-lawyer's eye, it seems a bit ambiguous:\nAdobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, we do need certain rights from you, with respect to Your Content, in order to operate the Service and in order to enable you to do all the things this Service affords you the ability to do. Therefore, with respect to Your Content, you grant Adobe a worldwide (because the internet is global), royalty-free (meaning we do not owe you any money), nonexclusive (meaning you are free to license Your Content to others) fully sublicensable (so that we can permit our affiliates, subcontractors and agents to deliver the Service on our behalf) license to use, reproduce and modify Your Content solely for the purposes of operating the Service and enabling your use of the Service. With respect to Your Shared Content, you additionally grant Adobe the rights to distribute, publicly perform and publicly display Your Shared Content (in whole or in part) for the sole purposes of operating the Service and enabling your use of the Service and to sublicense Your Shared Content to Other Users subject to the limitations of Section 7 below. These limited licenses do not grant Adobe the right to sell or otherwise license Your Content or Your Shared Content on a stand alone basis. Further, you may terminate Adobe's right to distribute, publicly perform and publicly display Your Shared Content by making it no longer shared. You may terminate the remainder of Adobe's rights by removing Your Content from the Service.\nAdobe also provided a much shorter version that attempts to put everything said above into plain English:\nAdobe has retained only those limited rights that allow us to operate the service and to enable you to do all the things the service offers. If you decide to terminate your Photoshop Express account, Adobe's rights also will be terminated. Adobe doesn't claim ownership of your content and won't sell your images.\nI question what the \"rights that allow us to operate the service\" means.  Is it to transfer the data amongst their servers?  There are numerous other online photo editors out there that don't even so much as require you to login to start editing a photo, so why does Adobe need a EULA with such language that retains any form of rights granted?  It's good to know that if you remove the image that all rights terminate, but to me it seems they could basically claim anything which falls under the guise of \"operating the service.\"\nYou may read the full EULA in its revised form here."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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