Medium’s New Terms and a Radical Change We Didn’t See Coming

Plot twist! (and who gets killed off)

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We’ve been given notice, most of us. Medium is changing their terms effective September 1, 2020.

There’s a lot of Chicken Little’s running around shrieking that the sky is falling. Omg, this is going to be the end of Medium. The end!

Nope. Not even close.

Medium will be just fine. But you need to know how to read the writing on the wall. Figure out what the changes to the terms portent, if you will.

The winds of change are blowing, my friends.
It’s a radical change we didn’t see coming.

First, let’s discuss the changes.
Then, who will be affected.

Under the old terms, Medium agreed not to sell our content. That‘s going away — for some of us.

Under the old terms, Medium was an open platform for writers, where we owned our content. Medium promised they’d never sell our content without explicit permission. See?

Old Terms: valid to Aug 31, 2020…

You own the rights to the content you create and post on Medium…In…