The Difference Between Duplicate Content and Repurposing Content

(Left) This is duplicating content. Image by Steve Buissinne from Pixabay / (Right) This is repurposing content. Image by Lori Sammartino from Pixabay

Medium does not allow posting duplicate content on the platform, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts, either publicly or as an unlisted story.

This applies to duplicate content on Medium only. You can still have your content on your personal blog, or any other websites.

This includes the following:

Taking a published story to unlisted, then re-publishing the same content into a new post

Republishing a duplicate version of an existing Medium story on Medium

Cross-posting stories in publications. If your story is already included in a publication, you may not publish another instance of the same story for inclusion in another publication

About the No Duplicate Content rule

What goes unsaid but you will hear from editors and publishers is this. That most dreaded and hated “P” of all time.

Plagiarism

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism is the representation of another author’s language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one’s own original work. In educational contexts, there are differing definitions of plagiarism depending on the institution. Plagiarism is considered a violation of…