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Ask HN: Medium accuses me of copyright violation because someone quoted me on HN
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behnamoh
3 years ago
Today I received a disturbing email from Medium.com. They suspended my account because they found two instances of my content appearing elsewhere on the internet. They accused me of copyright violation. They mentioned two examples:

1. My post (https://medium.com/@aplaceofmind/how-not-to-read-scientific-papers-89c4f39e571d) was copy/pasted by someone else to their blog (https://adonis49.wordpress.com/2022/05/03/how-to-skim-scientific-papers-does-that-include-peer-reviewed-articles/).

But Medium accuses __me__ of copyright violation!

2. My post (https://medium.com/@aplaceofmind/i-stopped-reading-hacker-news-comments-because-of-this-928b7ae87385) was submitted to HN and someone quoted part of that article in the comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32400521).

Again, Medium accuses __me__ of violating copyright!

This is the second time they've suspended my account. I've been a long time writer on their platform and my account appeared as a top writer in a few categories. But this time they went too far.

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