Medium Terms of Service

Medium's Terms of Service govern what you can do on the platform and what Medium can do with your content and account. When you post content, you give Medium a broad, royalty-free license to use and modify it in virtually any way, worldwide. If something goes wrong, Medium's financial liability to you is capped at $50.00 (or what you paid), and you must resolve disputes individually through arbitration—not in court and not as part of a class action.

Medium's Terms of Service establish the core rights and obligations governing use of its platform. Users grant Medium a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide, sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, publicly perform, and display their content. Medium disclaims all warranties, caps its total liability per claim at the greater of $50.00 USD or the amount paid by the user, and excludes all indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, punitive, and special damages under any legal theory. Disputes are subject to mandatory individual arbitration with a class and representative action waiver, a jury trial waiver, and a one-year filing deadline, with Medium reserving the right to suspend or terminate user access with or without notice.

Using Medium means granting it extensive rights over your content, including the right to modify it, sublicense it, and distribute it worldwide without paying you. You bear sole risk for using the Services, which are provided with no warranties, and your ability to recover money from Medium for any harm is capped at $50.00 or the amount you paid. You are required to indemnify Medium and its personnel against claims arising from your use of the platform or your content, and you must be at least 13 years old to use the Services. Any dispute you have with Medium must be filed within one year of the claim arising or it is permanently barred; you can only pursue claims individually, not as part of a class or representative action.