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Adobe steals your color (permalink) When a company breaks a product you rely on wrecking decades of work - it's natural to feel fury. Companies know this, so they try to deflect your rage by blaming their suppliers. Sometimes, it's suppliers who are at fault - but other times, there is plenty of blame to go around. For example, when Apple deleted all the working VPNs from its Chinese App Store and backdoored its Chinese cloud servers, it blamed the Chinese government. But the Chinese state knew that Apple had locked its devices so that its Chinese customers couldn't install third-party apps. That meant that an order to remove working VPNs and apps that used offshore clouds from the App Store would lock Apple customers into Chinese state surveillance. The order to block privacy tools was a completely foreseeable consequence of Apple's locked-down "ecosystem." https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and- the-digital-manor/ In 2013, Adobe started to shift its customers to the cloud, replacing apps like Photoshop and Illustrator with "Software as a Service" ("Saas") versions that you would have to pay rent on, every month, month after month, forever. It's not hard to understand why this was an attractive proposition for Adobe! Adobe, of course, billed its SaaS system as good for its customers - rather than paying thousands of dollars for its software up front, you could pay a few dollars (anywhere from $10-$50) every month instead. Eventually, of course, you'd end up paying more, assuming these were your professional tools, which you expected to use for the rest of your life. For people who work in pre-press, a key part of their Adobe toolset is integration with Pantone. Pantone is a system for specifying color-matching. A Pantone number corresponds to a specific tint that's either made by mixing the four standard print colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black, AKA "CMYK"), or by applying a "spot" color. Spot colors are added to print jobs after the normal CMYK passes - if you want a stripe of metallic gold or a blob of hot pink, you specify its Pantone number and the printer loads up a separate ink and runs your media through its printer one more time. Pantone wants to license this system out, so it needs some kind of copyrightable element. There aren't many of these in the Pantone system! There's the trademark, but that's a very thin barrier. Trademark has a broad "nominative use" exception: it's not a trademark violation to say, "Pantone 448C corresponds to the hex color #4a412a." Perhaps there's a copyright? well yes, there's a "thin" database copyright on the Pantone values and their ink equivalents. Anyone selling a RIP or printer that translates Pantone numbers to inks almost certainly has to license Pantone's copyright there. And if you wanted to make an image- editing program that conveyed the ink data to a printer, you'd best take a license. All of this is suddenly relevant because it appears that things have broken down between Adobe and Pantone. Rather than getting Pantone support bundled in with your Adobe apps, you must now pay $21/month for a Pantone plugin. https://twitter.com/funwithstuff/status/1585850262656143360 Remember, Adobe's apps have moved to the cloud. Any change that Adobe makes in its central servers ripples out to every Adobe user in the world instantaneously. If Adobe makes a change to its apps that you don't like, you can't just run an older version. Saas vendors like to boast that with cloud- based apps, "you're always running the latest version!" The next version of Adobe's apps will require you to pay that $21/month Pantone fee, or any Pantone-defined colors in your images will render as black. That's true whether you created the file last week or 20 years ago. Doubtless, Adobe will blame Pantone for this, and it's true that Pantone's greed is the root cause here. But this is an utterly foreseeable result of Adobe's SaaS strategy. If Adobe's customers were all running their apps locally, move like this on Pantone's part would simply cause every affected customer to run older versions of Adobe apps. Adobe wouldn't be able to sell any upgrades and Pantone wouldn't get any license fees. But because Adobe is in the cloud, its customers don't have that option. Adobe doesn't have to have its users' backs because if it caves to Pantone, users will still have to rent its software every month, and because that is the "latest version," those users will also have to rent the Pantone plugin every month forever. What's more, while there may not be any licensable copyright in a file that simply says, "Color this pixel with Pantone 448c" (provided the program doesn't contain ink-mix descriptions), Adobe's other products - its RIPS and Postscript engines - do depend on licensable elements of Pantone, so the company can't afford to tell Pantone to go pound sand. Like the Chinese government coming after Apple because they knew that any change that Apple made to its service would override its customers' choices, Pantone came after Adobe because they knew that Saas insulated Adobe from its customers' wrath. Adobe customers can't even switch to its main rival, Figma. Adobe's just dropped $20b to acquire that company and ensure that its customers can't punish it for selling out by changing vendors. Pantone started out as specify ink mixes shops. Today, it's a tech company: a way to reliably in different prepress houses and print an "IP" company, where "IP" means "any law me to control the conduct of my or policy that allows customers, critics or competitors." https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/ That's likewise true of Adobe. The move to SaaS is best understood as a means to exert control over Adobe's customers and competitors. Combined with anti-competitive killer acquisitions that gobble up any rival that manages to escape a hostage situation that other IP this control, and you have companies like or Pantone can exploit. A decade so ago, Ginger C---- created Open Colour Standard, an attempt to make an interoperable alternative to Pantone. Alas, it seems dormant today: http://adaptstudio.ca/ocs/ Owning colors is possible to do any meaningful "owned" in to believe that they are. Inspired by them and want you Pantone, people with IP brain-worms keep trying to turn colors into property: a terrible idea and technically, it's not so. Neither UPS Brown nor John Deere Green are sense, but the companies certainly https://onezero.medium.com/crypto-copyright-bdf24f48bf99 The law is clear that colors aren't property, but by combining SaaS, copyright, trademark, and other tech and policies, it is becoming increasingly likely that some corporation will stealing the colors out from under our very eyes.

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Adobe Inc. is an American computer software company which operates many popular tools with which online content is created, including Photoshop, Flash, Acrobat Reader, PDF, and Creative Suite.

History

Adobe was founded December 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke.^[5] They first created PostScript, which was licensed by Apple in 1985. Over the course of the following decades, Adobe introduced several popular softwares which were mainstays with Apple, including Illustrator, PDF, Acrobat Reader, and, most notably, Photoshop. The company changed its name from "Adobe Systems" to "Adobe Inc." in 2018.

Flash

Adobe Flash is a development platform for various types multimedia and software, including animations, browser games, web applications and mobile games. Flash is supported on a several different web browsers for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS C and Linux operating systems, but was replaced by HTML 5 for use on smart phone mobile devices. In December 1996, the software company Macromedia purchased FutureSplash, renaming the product to Adobe Flash and releasing it as both an editor and player. The new version was widely adopted on the web by video game and animation creators following the release of a free browser plugin. In January 2008, the core technology Internet markup language HTML 5 was released, which included several features similar to Adobe Flash, including audio and video playback and Scalable Vector Graphics. Unlike Flash, HTML 5 requires the use of CSS3 and Javascript to run animations and interactive elements. In January 2015, YouTube replaced Flash with HTML 5 as their default video player.

Photoshop

Photoshop is an image-editing software application developed and published by Adobe Systems. Since its initial release in February 1990, Photoshop has established itself as one of the most advanced and widely used graphic editing programs in the market by offering a wide range of constantly evolving features and tools that enable its users to create original artworks or digitally manipulate pre-existing images. In the context of Internet culture and digital arts, Photoshop has played a vital role in facilitating the creation of hundreds of memes and other notable original artworks, to such an extent that "photoshopping" (often shortened as "shopping") is now used as a colloquial English verb for editing images in general.

License Revoking

On May 10th, 2019, Twitter user @KupoGames^[1] tweeted that he had received an email from Adobe alerting him that they had discontinued certain older versions of their Creative Cloud applications and that as a result, he was no longer licensed to use them.

Matt Roszak Follow @KupoGames I just got an email from @Adobe that l'm no longer allowed to use the software that l'm paying for. Time to cancel my subscription I guess. Share plz. Adobe Dear Valued Customer At Adobe, we always strive to deliver more value to our customers, including much requested new features and capabilities, critical bug fixes and security updates. For these reasons we recommend all customers use the latest release of our Creative Cloud applications. We have recently discontinued certain older versions of Creative Cloud applications and as a result under the terms of our agreement, you are no longer licensed to use them. Our records show that you may be using the following version(s) of these applications ANIMATE: 15.0, ANIMATE:15.2,16.5 (Flash CC 2015 Please be aware that should you continue to use the discontinued version(s), you may be at risk of potential claims of infringement by third parties. Please upgrade to the latest version(s) using the instructions below. By upgrading. you will continue to recelve all the value that Creative Cloud has to offer Here's what to do next: .For the simplest experience, download and install the latest version of the applications listed above using the Creative Cloud Desktop applicatlon . If you do not have the Creatlve Cloud Desktop application, you can download and Install It here - For detailed instructions on how to use the Creative Cloud Desktop application, click here - You can also download and install these applications (after signing in) from Adobe.com here. Should you have any difficulties, Adobe's Customer Support organisation is available to answer any questions about upgracing your Creative Cloud software. Please contact them here. Finally, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you in advance for your cooperation. Regards, 2:42 PM 10 May 2019

Others reported that they received emails alerting them which specific applications they were no longer licensed to use Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom Classic, Animate and Media Director.^[2] In response to a customer complaint, @AdobeCare tweeted, "Customers who continue to use or deploy, unauthorized versions of Creative Cloud may face potential claims of infringement by third parties. We can not comment on claims of third party infringement, as it concerns ongoing litigation. ^CS."^[3] Legal expert Dylan Gilbert told Vice^[4] "(Adobe) has the power to force its customers to upgrade to newer more expensive versions at its whim, which illustrates the undue power and influence of EULAs over the lives of consumers. We should be able to own the things we buy.”

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maaike! Follow @yesmaaike man adobe is getting really out of control You have 6 App updates availablex ...Or else. 8:47 PM 15 May 2019

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^[1] Twitter – @KuboFlash

^[2] Apple Insider – Adobe warning of legal problems if subscribers keep using old versions of Creative Cloud apps [u]

^[3] Twitter – @AdobeCare

^[4] Vice – Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

^[5] Adobe – Fast Facts

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^[2] Apple Insider – Adobe warning of legal problems if subscribers keep using old versions of Creative Cloud apps [u]

^[3] Twitter – @AdobeCare

^[4] Vice – Adobe Tells Users They Can Get Sued for Using Old Versions of Photoshop

^[5] Adobe – Fast Facts

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