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Monday, 18 August 2008

Legal Issues; Copyleft / Copyright notice


Legal Issues; Copyleft / Copyright notice:


* We sometimes use copyrighted materials in the course of our discussions and exchanges. These materials are distributed in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 without profit, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research, educational, and religious purposes.

* The copyrights of any materials produced and published here by members or visitors of Cyprus Indymedia, either individually or collectively, belong to the authors. Any profit- oriented use of those materials without the express permission of the author, is illegal. We encourage the free distribution of these materials, especially in the context of the activities and communications of the global liberation movement.

* Both of the above statements are covered and protected by the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus; by International laws and treaties signed by the Republic; by current legislation governing copyrights; and by the legal precedents created by past Court decisions, including our own successful lawsuit in Court against an attempt to violate these rights by a large local corporation which owns and operates tv, magazine, and radio publishing enterprises.

Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
http://cyprusindymedia.org



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Sunday, 10 August 2008

Language Selection / Translations

Our Collective is committed to the building and strengthening of multi-ethnic and multi-cultural unity in and around Cyprus. For this reason our online publication is trilingual, utilizing the Hellenic, Turkish and English languages.

How to select for articles published in a particular language:

Hellenic (Greek):
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/hellenic
or
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/ellinika

Turkish:
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/turkish
or
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/turkce

English:
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/search/label/english


We are always (and desperately) in need of Translators. If you have time and interest, we can alway use your help! Please contact us here:

Main:
imc-cyprus@lists.indymedia.org

Turkce -Turkish language:
cyprus-turkish-language@lists.indymedia.org

Hellenic (greek) language:
cyprus-imc-ellinika-owner@yahoogroups.com

Thank you!
Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
http://cyprusindymedia.org/
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Friday, 8 August 2008

Editorial Policy

Document Information:
This document was produced in 2006 in order to coalesce all of our previous collective decisions and writings that determine and affect our Collective's Editorial Policy, produced at both the local and global level since the year 2000.

Due to various server failures and other technical failures, but also due to technical improvements, most of our essential documents have been in need of republishing in new formats. The present document is revised only to correct broken links and restore missing references, and to edit for clarity - no other changes were made. All of the values and principles of our organization pertaining to Editorial Policy are retained and restated as they were originally formulated at our Collective's inception in the year 2000.

Cyprus IndyMedia Collective
October 2010
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Editorial Policy

Our Editorial Policy is shaped and guided by the following documents, declarations, decisions and dialogues:

[Imc-East.-Mediterr.] IMC Cyprus - Our Final Application
http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc-eastern-mediterranean/2002-March/000059.html

Cyprus IndyMedia / Invitation to Participate (from our founding documents), in the Hellenic, Turkish and English languages:
http://www.cyprusindymedia.org/cyprus-indymedia-Invitation-english.htm

Global Indymedia/ Basic Editorial Policy
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/BasicEditorialPolicy

Additional refinements:
Trend Toward More Editorial Control
https://docs.indymedia.org/Global/TrendTowardMoreEditorialControl


Global organizational context:
Global Indymedia/ Membership Criteria
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/MembershipCriteria

Global Indymedia Principles Of Unity
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/PrinciplesOfUnity

Global Indymedia Mission Statement
https://docs.indymedia.org/Global/MissionStatement

Cyprus IndyMedia editorial and organizational context

In addition to all the above, our Editorial Policy is in accordance with all the laws and regulations of the countries in which our members are active and where our facilities are physically located, i.e. the jurisdictions within which we operate.

More importantly, through our publications we seek to practice in actuality the Freedom of Expression as it is guaranteed by the Constitutions of all the countries involved in our work, and to extend that right to the communities we serve. Also, to expand those rights and help to redefine them in accordance with the evolving perceptions and ideas of our times.

In the "special case" of issues related to Copyrights, we have consensed on this document:
Copyleft - Copyrights/ Legal
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2008/08/legal-issues-copyleft-copyright-notice.html

In the "special case" of issues related to Signatures, we have consensed on this document:
Collective or Individual Signatures?
http://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/collective-or-individual-signatures-for.html


Politics

We make political and editorial decisions in accordance to the spiritual, social, political, personal values and bonds among us in order to serve our mission - our values, principles and our politics are expressed in one of our founding documents titled "The Short Statement", below. The document originates from a BiCommunal organization named KaliMerhaba, which is the organization that gave birth to Cyprus IndyMedia. "The Short Statement" covers the basic foundations of ideology and practice on which we have built our local indymedia organization.

"The Short Statement"
http://www.cyprusindymedia.org/The_Short_Statement-KaliMerhaba.htm#Short


January 2006




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