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MORE Thoughts on Medium’s New Terms, and Why It Matters
So that you can make an informed decision before agreeing to them.
Let me start by saying that I believe Medium’s intentions are good.
I wrote, the other day:
Medium responded promptly with reassurances — their email has been added to the story above. However, no reassurances given in email or published by Medium in a separate story have any legal force and effect whatsoever.
Understand that the Terms of Service (and the additional agreements linked to at the bottom) are the only contractual agreement between Medium and you, unless you’re a big gun who’s able to negotiate a separate one — as stated in their “unless otherwise agreed in writing.” That means a meeting between minds, expressed in a contract. That doesn’t mean “something we post in a story.”
The following contains hypothetical situations that may seem far-fetched, probably will never happen, but generally illustrate why the new terms are cause for concern and why they ought to be changed — in the Terms of Service, which is the only contract between Medium and its contributors. Good intentions, expressed in a published tale on Medium, are just that —…
