{"id":18165,"date":"2013-05-09T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=9214"},"modified":"2013-05-09T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T20:05:07","slug":"you-should-never-lose-access-to-your-work-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/09\/you-should-never-lose-access-to-your-work-period\/","title":{"rendered":"You should never lose access to your work, period."},"content":{"rendered":"

A number of readers have raised a very valid concern about\u00a0Creative Cloud subscriptions: How can you retain access to your intellectual property (the work you’ve made with the apps) if you end your subscription? For example,\u00a0Paul Howson writes,<\/p>\n

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What makes “Creative Cloud only” an unacceptable option for me is becoming locked into a perpetual “Adobe tax”. If I stop paying the tax, I lose access to the work I have created using the Adobe tools (which is my “property”, not Adobe’s).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Your work is absolutely your property. Adobe fully agrees, and that’s why we’ve worked so hard over the years on things like the DNG standard (meant to ensure that your photos always stay readable), turning PDF into an ISO standard, etc.<\/p>\n

There are solutions here, and we’ll work on sharing more details.\u00a0In the meantime, your suggestions are most welcome. Reader Alan Ralph writes,<\/p>\n

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Adobe should change their software so that when it’s used outside of a subscription, it will only allow opening, printing and exporting to other formats. That would ensure that you could still access your documents and make use of them. Seems like a no-brainer to me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Would that address your concerns?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A number of readers have raised a very valid concern about\u00a0Creative Cloud subscriptions: How can you retain access to your intellectual property (the work you’ve made with the apps) if you end your subscription? For example,\u00a0Paul Howson writes, What makes “Creative Cloud only” an unacceptable option for me is becoming locked into a perpetual “Adobe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}