Adobe’s Photoshop Express is a great online photo editor, no doubt about that, but it’s not free (as in free beer). In exchange for using Photoshop Express, Adobe wants your photos.
If you read the General Terms, you’ll find under point 8. Use of Your Content. letter a. the following paragraph [via SPON]:
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.
As I understand it, Adobe, for instance, reserves the rights to sublicense your photos in Adobe Stock Photos to third parties. Without sharing the revenue with you of course. After all, Adobe already offered you its service Adobe Photoshop Express for “free”.
To me, that’s a show stopper for using Adobe Photoshop Express. Luckily there are other excellent online photo editors around who don’t claim such farreaching rights on your content like Adobe does: picnik, pixer.us or flauntR to name only a few of them.
Better than social networks like XING or Facebook for looking up a person: 123people not only includes ordinary web search results, photos and videos, but as well email addresses, post addresses and phone numbers (in Austria so far).
Even if I’m aware that there is a lot personal data spread over the internet, I feel very uncomfortable when it’s joined and displayed on one single page. The biggest privacy threat, in the private and public sector, is matching personal data out of several, originally seperated, data bases. Luckily public administration suffers from bureaucracy which adds some friction between public agencies. Actually it adds more friction than our legislation does at the moment. On the private side, the friction is lesser. Especially on the internet it seems easy to trace persons, as services like 123people demonstrate.
However, it just proves the “feeling” I’m having that it’s time to withdraw some personal information from the internet. Sooner or later it’ll be abused.
Btw, maybe 123people should change their tagline to something like
Times change: after all it’s becoming acceptable to talk about Britney in Bobo environments?
Movie mastermind Quentin Tarantino could make the impossible possible and Britney cool. The same way as he transformed John Travolta from a clean family safe star into a killing junkie in the mid-nineties.
He could do the same with Britney. She wouldn’t even have to act very much, in her current condition she could perfectly star as sleazy stripper in Tarantino’s remake of “Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!”.
Oh, and let’s face it, Piece Of Me IS a great pop song! [via Ö3]
