Before/after stance changes across captured policy versions, with exact citations. If no before/after delta is available yet, AIRIN shows the latest citation-backed stance events instead.
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“We will not use these rights to train generative AI models on your Content and will not use the sublicense rights to have anyone else train generative AI models on your Content, except at your specific request (like you asking us to train a custom model on your Content).”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“Here’s what we don't do: We don’t scan or review content that is stored locally on your device. We also don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace.”Open citation
Latest stance: no training claim
“**(F) Generative AI.** We will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“This license does not give us permission to train generative AI models with your or your customers’ content. We don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace.”Open citation
Latest stance: no training claim
“We will not use these rights to train generative AI models on your Content and will not use the sublicense rights to have anyone else train generative AI models on your Content, except at your specific request (like you asking us to train a custom model on your Content).”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“2. **Generative AI.** We will **not** use your Content to train generative AI models except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement.”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“Certain elements of the Services and Software constitute our (or our licensors’) confidential information. Except as expressly permitted in the Terms, you must not (and must not allow third parties to): (A) modify, port, adapt, or translate any portion of the Services or Software; (B) reverse engineer (including but not limited to monitoring or tracking the inputs and outputs flowing through a system or an application in order to recreate that system), decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover, within any Service or Software, the source code, data representations or underlying algorithms, processes, methods, and any other portion of such Service or Software; or (C) use the Services or Software, or any content, data, output, or other information received or derived from the Services or Software, to directly or indirectly create, train, test, or otherwise improve any machine learning algorithms or artificial intelligence system, including but not limited to any architectures, models, or weights. If the laws of your jurisdiction give you the right to decompile the Services or Software to obtain information necessary to render the licensed portions of the Services or Software interoperable with other software, you must first request such information from us. We may, in our discretion, either provide such information to you or impose reasonable conditions, including a reasonable fee, on your decompilation of the Services or Software to ensure that our and our licensors’ and suppliers’ proprietary rights in the Services and Software are protected.”Open citation
Latest stance: broad license
“import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software. 4.2 Ownership As between you and Adobe, you (as a Business User or a Personal User, as applicable) retain all rights and ownership of your Content. We do not claim any ownership rights to your Content. 4.3 Licenses to Your Content #E1E1E1 Section 4.3 means: You own your content. But in order to use our products and services, we need you to give us permission to use your content when stored or processed in our cloud. This permission is called a license. This license allows us to provide our products and services to you, like if you want to share your content or publish your content on Behance. Because it’s your content — not ours. This license does not give us permission to train generative AI models with your or your customers’ content. We don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace. We also ask whether you would like to help us improve our products and services, but it’s never required. When you choose to help us improve our products, we need a limited license to your content for that specific purpose. style xs-spacing, grid-width-12 (A) License to Cloud Content to Operate the Services and Software on Your Behalf. Solely for the purpose of operating the Services and Software on your behalf, and subject to section 4.2 (Ownership) above which states that in all cases you own your Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following with your Cloud Content: reproduce (for example, to create copies of your Cloud Content on our servers in order to allow you to upload your Cloud Content to our servers, to allow you to copy and paste your Cloud Content between multiple Adobe”Open citation
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“Express projects, to make copies of your Creative Cloud libraries, to make copies across servers to help prevent data loss, or to cache your Cloud Content on content delivery networks to improve how quickly you can view and download content stored on our servers); distribute (for example, to publish your work under your direction to third party platforms or services, to share Cloud Content under your direction through our Services to your friends, family, and colleagues, or to allow these authorized people to download your Cloud Content with your permission); create derivative works (for example, to compress an image to use as a thumbnail, to remove an image background at your direction, or to translate the Cloud Content into another language); publicly display (for example, for an image or document, to publish the image or document on a public property such as Behance or a third-party platform at your direction but not to use your image or document to market or promote Adobe); publicly perform (for example, to enable the playback of a video on public properties or third-party platforms at your direction but not to use the video to market or promote Adobe); and sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf (for example, we utilize trusted cloud infrastructure providers and content delivery networks subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions to provide you with faster access to your Cloud Content). What Adobe Does Not Do We will not (and cannot) grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give us. Under this clause 4.3(A), we do not have the right to, and will not, use your Content to market or promote Adobe. We will not use these rights to train generative AI models on your Content and will not use the”Open citation
Latest stance: sublicensable or transferable
“sublicense rights to have anyone else train generative AI models on your Content, except at your specific request (like you asking us to train a custom model on your Content). (B) License to Cloud Content to Improve our Services and Software. (B) License to Cloud Content to Improve our Services and Software. Solely for the purpose of our internal analysis of how you use our Services and Software and the characteristics of your Content (such as file type and structural attributes) (together, “ Content Analytics ”), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following to improve our Services and Software: reproduce (for example, to make copies of your Cloud Content in our internal file storage repositories); create derivative works (for example, to convert between file formats, or crop the Cloud Content); and sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf (for example, we may utilize trusted vendors and contractors subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions to do Content Analytics on our behalf). We will not (and cannot) grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give us. Under this clause 4.3(B), we do not have the right to, and we will not, publicly display your Content or allow third parties to improve their products with your Content. (C) You May Choose Not to Participate in Content Analytics. Opt-out Rights. You have the right to opt out of us performing Content Analytics using your Content ( https://www.adobe.com/go/contentanalysisfaq ) and usage data ( https://www.adobe.com/go/usagedatafaq ). Generative AI. We will not use your Content to train generative AI models except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate”Open citation
Latest stance: broad license
“sublicense rights to have anyone else train generative AI models on your Content, except at your specific request (like you asking us to train a custom model on your Content). (B) License to Cloud Content to Improve our Services and Software. (B) License to Cloud Content to Improve our Services and Software. Solely for the purpose of our internal analysis of how you use our Services and Software and the characteristics of your Content (such as file type and structural attributes) (together, “ Content Analytics ”), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following to improve our Services and Software: reproduce (for example, to make copies of your Cloud Content in our internal file storage repositories); create derivative works (for example, to convert between file formats, or crop the Cloud Content); and sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf (for example, we may utilize trusted vendors and contractors subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions to do Content Analytics on our behalf). We will not (and cannot) grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give us. Under this clause 4.3(B), we do not have the right to, and we will not, publicly display your Content or allow third parties to improve their products with your Content. (C) You May Choose Not to Participate in Content Analytics. Opt-out Rights. You have the right to opt out of us performing Content Analytics using your Content ( https://www.adobe.com/go/contentanalysisfaq ) and usage data ( https://www.adobe.com/go/usagedatafaq ). Generative AI. We will not use your Content to train generative AI models except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“Software constitute our (or our licensors’) confidential information. Except as expressly permitted in the Terms, you must not (and must not allow third parties to): (A) modify, port, adapt, or translate any portion of the Services or Software; (B) reverse engineer (including but not limited to monitoring or tracking the inputs and outputs flowing through a system or an application in order to recreate that system), decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover, within any Service or Software, the source code, data representations or underlying algorithms, processes, methods, and any other portion of such Service or Software; or (C) use the Services or Software, or any content, data, output, or other information received or derived from the Services or Software, to directly or indirectly create, train, test, or otherwise improve any machine learning algorithms or artificial intelligence system, including but not limited to any architectures, models, or weights. If the laws of your jurisdiction give you the right to decompile the Services or Software to obtain information necessary to render the licensed portions of the Services or Software interoperable with other software, you must first request such information from us. We may, in our discretion, either provide such information to you or impose reasonable conditions, including a reasonable fee, on your decompilation of the Services or Software to ensure that our and our licensors’ and suppliers’ proprietary rights in the Services and Software are protected. 18. Miscellaneous 18.1 English Version The English version of the Terms will be the version used when interpreting or construing the Terms. 18.2 Notice to Adobe You may send notices to us at the following address: Adobe Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose,”Open citation
Latest stance: no training claim
“sublicense rights to have anyone else train generative AI models on your Content, except at your specific request (like you asking us to train a custom model on your Content). (B) License to Cloud Content to Improve our Services and Software. (B) License to Cloud Content to Improve our Services and Software. Solely for the purpose of our internal analysis of how you use our Services and Software and the characteristics of your Content (such as file type and structural attributes) (together, “ Content Analytics ”), you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following to improve our Services and Software: reproduce (for example, to make copies of your Cloud Content in our internal file storage repositories); create derivative works (for example, to convert between file formats, or crop the Cloud Content); and sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf (for example, we may utilize trusted vendors and contractors subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions to do Content Analytics on our behalf). We will not (and cannot) grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give us. Under this clause 4.3(B), we do not have the right to, and we will not, publicly display your Content or allow third parties to improve their products with your Content. (C) You May Choose Not to Participate in Content Analytics. Opt-out Rights. You have the right to opt out of us performing Content Analytics using your Content ( https://www.adobe.com/go/contentanalysisfaq ) and usage data ( https://www.adobe.com/go/usagedatafaq ). Generative AI. We will not use your Content to train generative AI models except for Content you chose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“content to confirm if it is illegal or abusive. A person may review your content on our servers in limited circumstances, such as upon your request, when you choose to let us use your content to improve our products or when your content is flagged or reported as illegal. Here’s what we don't do: We don’t scan or review content that is stored locally on your device. We also don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace. style xs-spacing, grid-width-12 We respect your rights to your Content (defined in Section 4.1) and limit our access to your Content in the following ways: (A) Operational Use. Our Services and Software will access your Local and Cloud Content to enable the normal running of the Services and Software, for example, allowing Photoshop to open your file so you can edit it. (B) No Scanning or Review of Local Content. For Content stored locally on your device (“ Local Content ”), we do not scan or review your Content. (C) Illegal and Abusive Cloud Content. For Content that you have uploaded to our servers or create using our cloud-based Services (“ Cloud Content ”), Content may be automatically scanned to ensure we are not hosting illegal or abusive content, like Child Sexual Abuse Material. (D) Content Analytics with Cloud Content. Subject to your opt-out rights, we may perform Content Analytics (see section 4.3(B)) with Cloud Content to help us understand how our users are using our Services and Software to allow us to improve your Services and Software experience, provide recommendations to you, and customize your experience. Learn more about your right to opt out of us performing Content Analytics using your Content ( adobe.com/go/contentanalysisfaq) and usage data (”Open citation
Latest stance: no training claim
“adobe.com/go/usagedatafaq) . Insights from Content Analytics may be used to inform our marketing to you, subject to your opt-out and consent rights regarding our marketing. (E) Public and Shared Cloud Content. For Cloud Content on our Adobe Stock platform and other public-facing platforms like Behance and {{lightroom}} communities, all Cloud Content is subject to review for intellectual property issues and safety issues (for example, violence and nudity). If you choose to share your Cloud Content with others using our Software and Services, we may automatically review this shared Cloud Content to flag abusive behavior (such as spam or phishing). (F) Generative AI. We will not use your Local or Cloud Content to train generative AI models except for Content you choose to submit to the Adobe Stock marketplace, and this use is governed by the separate Adobe Stock Contributor Agreement. (G) Human Review of Cloud Content. For Cloud Content, human review may occur in limited circumstances: when you ask us (like contacting our support team); when you make your Cloud Content publicly available (like on Adobe Stock or Behance); when your Cloud Content is flagged or reported as illegal or abusive (like Child Sexual Abuse Materials); or when you opt in to a prerelease, beta, or product improvement program (like the Adobe Photoshop Improvement Program). Learn more Your Local Content is never reviewed by us. 2.3 Data Protection Agreements In some countries, the law requires that we put a data protection agreement in place with you if we handle Personal Data (as defined in the applicable agreement) for you as part of our Services and Software. These agreements are the EU Data Processing Agreement or Data Protection Terms, found in the following locations: (A) European Union (“EU”)”Open citation
Latest stance: user retains rights
“import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software. 4.2 Ownership As between you and Adobe, you (as a Business User or a Personal User, as applicable) retain all rights and ownership of your Content. We do not claim any ownership rights to your Content. 4.3 Licenses to Your Content #E1E1E1 Section 4.3 means: You own your content. But in order to use our products and services, we need you to give us permission to use your content when stored or processed in our cloud. This permission is called a license. This license allows us to provide our products and services to you, like if you want to share your content or publish your content on Behance. Because it’s your content — not ours. This license does not give us permission to train generative AI models with your or your customers’ content. We don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace. We also ask whether you would like to help us improve our products and services, but it’s never required. When you choose to help us improve our products, we need a limited license to your content for that specific purpose. style xs-spacing, grid-width-12 (A) License to Cloud Content to Operate the Services and Software on Your Behalf. Solely for the purpose of operating the Services and Software on your behalf, and subject to section 4.2 (Ownership) above which states that in all cases you own your Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following with your Cloud Content: reproduce (for example, to create copies of your Cloud Content on our servers in order to allow you to upload your Cloud Content to our servers, to allow you to copy and paste your Cloud Content between multiple Adobe”Open citation
Latest stance: training permitted
“import into, embed for use by, or create using the Services and Software. 4.2 Ownership As between you and Adobe, you (as a Business User or a Personal User, as applicable) retain all rights and ownership of your Content. We do not claim any ownership rights to your Content. 4.3 Licenses to Your Content #E1E1E1 Section 4.3 means: You own your content. But in order to use our products and services, we need you to give us permission to use your content when stored or processed in our cloud. This permission is called a license. This license allows us to provide our products and services to you, like if you want to share your content or publish your content on Behance. Because it’s your content — not ours. This license does not give us permission to train generative AI models with your or your customers’ content. We don’t train generative AI models on your or your customers’ content unless you’ve submitted the content to the Adobe Stock marketplace. We also ask whether you would like to help us improve our products and services, but it’s never required. When you choose to help us improve our products, we need a limited license to your content for that specific purpose. style xs-spacing, grid-width-12 (A) License to Cloud Content to Operate the Services and Software on Your Behalf. Solely for the purpose of operating the Services and Software on your behalf, and subject to section 4.2 (Ownership) above which states that in all cases you own your Content, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to do the following with your Cloud Content: reproduce (for example, to create copies of your Cloud Content on our servers in order to allow you to upload your Cloud Content to our servers, to allow you to copy and paste your Cloud Content between multiple Adobe”Open citation
Latest stance: no training claim
“Express projects, to make copies of your Creative Cloud libraries, to make copies across servers to help prevent data loss, or to cache your Cloud Content on content delivery networks to improve how quickly you can view and download content stored on our servers); distribute (for example, to publish your work under your direction to third party platforms or services, to share Cloud Content under your direction through our Services to your friends, family, and colleagues, or to allow these authorized people to download your Cloud Content with your permission); create derivative works (for example, to compress an image to use as a thumbnail, to remove an image background at your direction, or to translate the Cloud Content into another language); publicly display (for example, for an image or document, to publish the image or document on a public property such as Behance or a third-party platform at your direction but not to use your image or document to market or promote Adobe); publicly perform (for example, to enable the playback of a video on public properties or third-party platforms at your direction but not to use the video to market or promote Adobe); and sublicense the foregoing rights to third parties acting on our behalf (for example, we utilize trusted cloud infrastructure providers and content delivery networks subject to confidentiality and privacy restrictions to provide you with faster access to your Cloud Content). What Adobe Does Not Do We will not (and cannot) grant a sublicense to a third party that is greater than the rights you give us. Under this clause 4.3(A), we do not have the right to, and will not, use your Content to market or promote Adobe. We will not use these rights to train generative AI models on your Content and will not use the”Open citation
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