Broken Old Broad Writes
What Publishing Platform Protects Writers the Best?
Don't want to get cloned and ripped off again.
Jeez, it's been a long time since I posted on my blog. I am
shopping around for a new publishing platform because not only did Medium
change their Terms of Service contract to further exploit their authors (which
boggles the mind, because we were already groveling for claps and pennies), but
the entire site was recently cloned, which means that in China and Russia and other
countries where copyrights mean nothing, our material is being scrubbed of
our bylines and used without our permissions – aka pirated.
So in my search for a new home for my somewhat large body of
work, I am interested in knowing how well protected each of the sites I'm
considering actually are.
I am not all that computer savvy – nor am I well-versed in
tech-speak. I just want a general comparison about how much one site protects their
material as opposed to others.
And also, I know there isn't much recourse when pursuing
pirates in countries that don't cooperate, but how responsible can I hold
publishing platforms for the loss of my copyrighted material?
I'm sure Medium is receiving a deluge of questions from irate
writers because the entire site was scraped and cloned. Every single publication.
How much protection is available for writers, and do individual publications,
like "The Atlantic" have more protection from their own end?
Before I choose a publishing platform, I want to find out
about this.
I would appreciate answers from various tech support departments
of the platforms I'm considering, and if anyone else wants to chime in and tell
me why theirs is better, I'm all ears.
Thank you!
