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I think what it comes down to is that people are scared that Medium is going to use their license to steal all your content. Their license is weird: It says it
by echohack 13y ago
I think what it comes down to is that people are scared that Medium is going to use their license to steal all your content. Their license is weird: It says it allows them to make derivative works with your content, but at the same time it says it allows you to retain ownership of your content. What does that mean? Nobody knows.
I think if Medium just clarified that one line in their license it would make everyone's fears go away.
- gohrt 13y agoIt means the same thing that this license means everywhere else: Medium can do whatever they want with your submission, and so can you.
- derekp7 13y agoIt is standard CYA terms to keep them from getting sued by their users whenever they decide to change the site in such a way that displays your content in a different manner than what you expected.
- echohack 13y agoThen they should say that's what it's for. I think that would be simple enough.
- ubernostrum 13y agoEvery service you've ever signed up for that accepts user-generated/submitted content has a clause functionally identical to this. Of course, every time someone reads one of those clauses they think it implies all sorts of evil, because reading comprehension is not a strong suit of the internet.
- x3c 13y agoTo put it other way round, maybe comprehensive writing is not a strong suite of the Internet.
- 3stripe 13y agoThey are just words. Surely anything Medium does with them is going to promote the author also?