Adobe to correct its controversial Photoshop Express terms Thursday

"You grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue...from [Your] Content" read its original Terms of Service, which apparently didn't go over well.

Maybe the company didn't expect anyone to actually read the Terms of Service word-for-word, or maybe it didn't actually read the text itself after "boilerplating" it from some other product. But last Friday, Adobe said it has altered the Terms with regard to its online Photoshop Express product, so that it doesn't appear the company will claim the right to open a service on the side that resells users' own photos.

"The original terms of service implied things Adobe would never do with the content within Photoshop Express," reads an Adobe statement to BetaNews over the weekend. "Thus, revisions were made to clarify our intent."

But those revisions won't be visible until Thursday, April 10. At that time, the company said, it will post terms that limit its claims to operate the service and to use customers' photos for the customers' purposes in doing so. It won't claim to have the right to use customers' photos elsewhere, and certainly not in perpetuity.

Adobe will also make adjustments to its legal language for photo sharing, it said Friday.