US Government Sues Adobe For Its Questionable Business Practices

For those who’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks, the entire altercation regarding Adobe kicked off in early June, following the community’s outrage over the company’s updated General Terms of Use, which essentially gave Adobe unlimited access to users’ projects.

The outrage intensified when people discovered section 4.2 of Adobe’s TOS, which states that users grant the company a royalty-free, sublicensable license to “use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate” their creations – a clause many found deeply insulting.

With Adobe failing to sweep the controversy under the rug, it was further amplified over the past weekend when a report revealed that even Adobe’s own staff is unhappy with the company and is criticizing the leadership for its “poor communication” and apparent mishandling of the Terms of Use debacle.