Grade D — Sign with caution (score 55/100)
MediaNews Group forces binding arbitration and class action waivers, and claims a perpetual, irrevocable license to all user-generated content.
Forced arbitration, perpetual content license, and broad termination rights.
YOU AND WE AGREE THAT ANY CLAIM THAT YOU OR WE MAY HAVE AGAINST THE OTHER MUST BE RESOLVED THROUGH BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION, AND NOT IN COURT OR AS PART OF ANY CLASS ACTION.
You cannot sue the company in court or join a class action lawsuit; you must use private arbitration.
you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable right and license to use... your User-Generated Content
The company owns a permanent, irrevocable license to use anything you post, which survives even if you delete your account.
MediaNews Group may change these Terms of Use at any time upon notice, which may be given by posting such notice on the Platform... Your continued use of the Platform after such notice will mean that you accept any changes.
The company can change the rules at any time, and your continued use counts as your agreement to those changes.
MediaNews Group reserves the right in its sole discretion to terminate or restrict your use of the Platform... without notice, for any or no reason, and without liability to you.
The company can ban you or delete your account at any time for any reason without giving you notice.
MEDIANEWS GROUP’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY... WILL NOT EXCEED $10.
The company limits its total financial responsibility to you to a maximum of $10.
you agree that you will not... use or attempt to use any Content... for purposes of... training, or development of large language or machine learning models
The company prohibits the use of its content for training AI systems.
Last reviewed 2026-08-07 under rubric v3.5.