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At first, i thought "Hey, what an idiot - why does this take me to medium then?". But then i actually read it and i agree - everyone should read the ToS of a s
by moepstar 13y ago
At first, i thought "Hey, what an idiot - why does this take me to medium then?".
But then i actually read it and i agree - everyone should read the ToS of a service they use, but sadly most people don't.
And therefore are mostly surprised when i tell them that $service owns every word, photo and whatnot they publish on it.
What really bugs me is that most people you tell are really indifferent to this. They plainly don't care that they gave up every right on, say, a photo they made to a megacorp - this should change.
- thrownaway2424 13y agoYou don't give up every right or even any right. You retain all your rights. But you have to give medium (or google or whomever) a license to redistribute what you wrote, otherwise they cannot do so and it's pointless to have written it using that service.
- josephwegner 13y agoBut why do we have to give them that right to redistribute? Using github, or even better your own server, the service doesn't gain any right to redistribute my content.
- mrkurt 13y agoBecause Medium is, by definition, redistributing your content every time someone loads up the article. They just distributed the parent article to me. If they sold the company, the acquirer also needs to distribute the content (transferable). Github's terms grant them the same ability, just not as explicitly.
- pessimizer 13y agoBecause Medium just redistributed your post to us. If you use your own server then you're the one that's doing the redistributing. If they didn't have the right to redistribute, you could sue them for letting us read your essay complaining about them asking for the right to redistribute.