access and review

and censor and re-use and use to train their AI… Basically they own your art.

Edit: That said, most predictable scummy move of Adobe’s long history of scummy moves.

And the product director is openly lying about it:

We are not accessing or reading Substance users’s projects in any way, shape or form nor are we planning to or have any means to do it in the first place.

It’s either that, or their lawyers decided to put that in without asking him? There needs to be some serious legislation for when companies try to pull this off

In other words, Adobe is now fundamentally unsuitable for commercial use.

Good job. I already switched to Affinity for photo editing & design because they don’t have a subscription model, though they’ve been bought by a company that plans to introduce the subscription model.