Is it not just a way to close out lawsuits because Canon will use the pictures in the deep learning engine of their AI program?
I recognize same words in all social media terms and conditions.
Yes, and a cute way to help a very rich company avoid employing some poor old corporate/PR photographer from making a few pennies. Everything companies do will find its way into tax allowances, one way or the other (if I could, how not they?), so they are double-miserable. Crowd sourcing, just like with the tv companies and news. It all means fewer people employed in the photography business which, from that firm's point of view, strikes me as even more perverse thinking.
Rob