reclaiming indymedia ireland

Indymedia Ireland very early on in its history attempted to tailor the global standard Creative Commons and Copyleft licenses. All versions of the software platform “Oscailt” adopted by the collective placed legally non-binding conditions on open publishing and thus alienated authors’ moral rights. Whereas other Indymedia sites had offered a range of publishing options ranging from the “Creative Commons” license to various levels of “Copyleft” interpretation, the Irish site chose to present a vague declaration of support for “CopyLeft” in general made in the name of “we in Indymedia” which could not nor can not remind binding. Thus “Indymedia Ireland” obstructed & obstructs open publishing by limiting the Indymedia contributors’ choices and undermining their rights. In doing so endangering the very protections Global Indymedia’s peer group are supposed to maintain. The process of publishing or contributing material which has developed on “Indymedia Ireland” further facilitates the usurption of author & contributor rights through the “feature articles” often presented as the work, or implied to be the work, of other named third parties. The practise of crediting authorship to the more prominent central column texts stands in sharp contrast to the collective anomynity chosen by most other Indymedia sites globally.

This category will look at this in detail as well as exploring an extensive history of plagiarism, mis-credited words & phrases and un-credited contributions.