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There’s a lot of buzz about Adobe’s beta release of Photoshop Express, the simplified online photo editor and hosting service. The review over at Webware mentions the site’s TOS, which is worth a look:

Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed. (emphasis mine)

I’d like to see some clarification on this. Especially the parts about being irrevocable and being able to “derive revenue.”

Update 3/29/08: Ars Technica has more details and a response from Adobe.

According to a recent report, only a small percentage of users upload content to Web 2.0 sites such as Flickr and YouTube. The report states that only 0.16 percent of YouTube traffic uploads video. Even more shocking to me is that only 0.2 percent of Flickr visitors upload photos. It is hard to imagine that the massive number of images available on Flickr comes from less than 1 percent of its visitors.

Oddly enough, 4.59 percent of traffic to Wikipedia took part in adding or changing content.

You can read the full article at Ars Technica. Found via Buzz Out Loud Podcast.

Flickr launched its collections feature today.

From the Flickr blog:

What are collections, you ask? A collection is a container into which you can place either sets or other collections, allowing you to create a hierarchy as deep as 5 collections. You can place as many of your sets into a collection as you like, and a set can be in as many different collections as you like.

You can also choose various layout options your pages to display sets, collections and specify the size of the images shown.