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Comment by dheera | Hacker News Reader

"Publications on Medium are bound by the Medium Terms of Service, and they have no right to your content that you do not explicitly grant them. That includes exporting, copying, or reposting your content to any website that is not Medium.com"

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

Wait what? If it's my content and I own the rights, I can repost it wherever I wish.

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The publications have no right of export of content they display that you posted yourself, unless you declared otherwise to the publication.

If you, the same legal entity, are both poster and republisher, then Medium’s statement is both true and irrelevant to you, as you retain the right of export that they guarantee is the poster’s to exercise.

Yep, if FreeCodeCamp secured the right to reproduce the content elsewhere everything is fine, but if they didn't they probably shouldn't have stood up the new site with an export of the content.

Many publications that pay for content secure the perpetual right to publish the content and usually some expiring right to exclusive publishing of the content and the writers themselves retain copyright. Not sure if FreeCodeCamp did this.

Yes, you can post it wherever you wish. A third party publication on Medium, however, cannot do so without your consent.

It might help to explain the Medium third party publication system, as it wouldn’t exactly be clear to people who haven’t experienced it before.

Ah, got it, I wasn't aware of this distinction.

The authors of the posts probably own the rights. FreeCodeCamp doesn't (as far as I can tell).

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