Adobe’s New Terms of Service: What You Need to Know-With Matt the Lawyer

Adobe’s latest terms of service updates have caused an uproar in the design industry, with designers saying they are leaving Adobe once and for all. Find out what you need to know-from a lawyer-about Adobe’s terms of use.
The Adobe part of the chat starts at 4:48.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Getting to Know Matthew Johnston
04:48 Why Designers Are in an Uproar Over Adobe Terms of Use
08:12 Can Adobe Use Your Content?
18:28 Can Adobe Use My Files in Creative Cloud?
21:19 Can Adobe Use My Content to Train AI?
24:04 Alternatives to Adobe
35:42 Outro

[@AppletreeAdvertising]

So many years ago when Adobe first went to the subscription model I was pissed. I knew I would be paying them monthly for the rest of my life. This was in the early 2000's. I had already been using the software for my business for years and there was no alternative for graphic designers on a mac. I don't think I will change now, but I have never initiated my free cloud storage. I learned that lesson when those celebrities got their iphones hacked with their nude pics on the cloud. I am dating myself, but we need to pay attention in life! That was a great lesson learned!

[@DesignDomination]

Yeah, I don't use the cloud storage either.

[@MrMadvillan]

Subscription is even more lucrative because they make you pay even if they stop developing it. TBH I could use Photoshop 2016 without issue, hence the reason they now require subs. Cloud, like so many other SV innovations is a shell game - you trade security and privacy for convenience. Apple intellectual is another one of these.

[@stevefreeman6646]

" An easy walk", more like a crawl, "Litigation takes a while", the objective by crafty lawyers at Adobe. It gives them time because humans will be involved in the access of "private" data. To understand their historical mindset, review the early days of PostScript (now PDF).

[@graphicsaw2657]

"for the purposes of improving our services and software" includes Firefly generative AI... which is specifically trained on LICENSED and public domain content

[@MrMadvillan]

oops, I was looking for the “Design Bondage” channel.

[@josebrivera1716]

I did not appreciate having to agree to the new user agreement or not being able to use the software. I think terms of service should not be unilateral. I still don't trust Adobe. Are you sure you are not being naive?

[@photoshopeandotv]

As you already suspect, this was just another hate campaign against adobe. These campaigns have been going on for over 10 years, but for some reason, this one about Adobe stealing and spying caught on and went viral.
I'm not a laywer but it took me around 30 seconds to read sections 2.2 and 4.4 (I'm speaking from memory) and realize they are pretty much the same as any other software legal terms. Of course, if I strip away parts of the text and reorder the words to my liking, then I could deduce that Adobe forces us to accept the most outrageous things. But that would be on me.
Even without referring to the terms of use, just out of common sense, I find it utterly ridiculous to believe that a company as big as Adobe (and as scrutinized as they are) would start happily stealing intelectual property and spying on people. Not to mention training their generative AI on customer content, when precisely the main distinctive trait of their generative model (Firefly) which Adobe proudly shows off is that, unlike most, it has been trained as ethically as possible only with stock contributors contents and public domain works.
This doesn't mean Adobe are all saints and "good-deed-doers" - one must maintain some level of mistrust. But what I've been hearing and seeing these days is pure nonsense and makes me realize how easy it is to misguide public opinion.
Thanks for this video.

[@MrMadvillan]

hahaha, haha this has got to be one of the funniest things I’ve read in a while. Do you not realize that creative professional have for years watch adobe capture, squeeze for profit and kill countless perceived competitors? All the while stripping development of anything in their portfolio. Most of their software is walking dead, practically zero development beyond AI implementation(which is frankly the poorest quality in class). Creatives hate adobe bc they are not even in the business development, they buy software companies, strip out costs(devs), squeeze users. Just look at how substance used to be the darling of the cg world and now it’s toast, done. What a boot licker. lol.