The major legal databases that large academic libraries have access to: Lexis Academic, Westlaw, and Hein Online appear to have VERY little on actual legal cases regarding Indymedia. Lexis Academic does get 89 hits for the search: indymedia and attack* in "Major World Publications" (News); one as far back at April 14 2001. But a search of federal and state law cases gets nothing for indymedia, and nothing even for: independent news, alternative news, alternative press, or independent reporters. Alternative media gets one irrelevant hit ("alternative media" for supplying legal reports).

But European law search does get 4 hits for the search: Indymedia:

1. Copyright 2006 EUR-Lex, European Communities, Preparatory Acts, November 21, 2003, Report from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council and the European Economic and Social Committee - First Report on the application of Directive 2000/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2000 on certain legal aspects of information society services, in particular electronic commerce, in the Internal Market (Directive on electronic commerce), July 17, 2006
... Deutsche Bahn v. Indymedia, judgement by Rechtbank ...

2. Copyright 2006 EUR-Lex, European Communities, Parliamentary Questions, 2002 OJ C 229, March 04, 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-0546/02 by Ilka Schroder (GUE/NGL) to the Council. Raid by the Netherlands Police on the Vrankrijk Building in Amsterdam., July 17, 2006
... at http://www.indymedia.de/2002/01/ ...

3. Copyright 2007 Commission of the European Communities, EUR-Lex Database: Miscellaneous OJ Documents, December 5, 2007, 2007 OJ C 293, [No Date in Original], List of titles of Written Questions by Members of the European Parliament indicating the number, original language, author, political group, institution addressed, date submitted and subject of the question, February 27, 2009 ... for closure of the italy.indymedia.org website for ...

4.Copyright 2006 Commission of the European Communities, EUR-Lex Database: Miscellaneous OJ Documents, May 29, 2006, 2006 OJ C 125, [No Date in Original], WRITTEN QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER List of titles of Written Questions by Members of the European Parliament indicating the number, original language, author, political group, institution addressed, date submitted and subject of the question, February 27, 2009
... 2004) Subject: Seizure of Indymedia's European sites Answer from the ...
... 2004) Subject: Seizure of Indymedia's European sites Joint ...

Because of strict license agreements, to see full text you would need to go in person to a large public (university) academic library that has Lexis or other legal databases and is likely to allow on-campus access to them. Even trying to order these legal cases by interlibrary loan would be a very tricky prospect, since ILL offices are generally hesitant to download from databases unless they have very clear license agreements with publishers that allow this.

It is well worth trying the europa.eu Advanced Search for "all words" - indymedia legal (12 hits), or indymedia israel (3 hits). But you may well end up plowing through some very long PDF documents, and you can't rely on the PDF "search in document" (binocular icon) to find words - in 100+ page documents especially.

Hi Kelly-

Great question. Copyright can be confusing, especially when it pertains to fair use (which seems to be what you're asking about), but I'll talk you through some of the guidelines.

Copyright extends to any reproduction of a work, including reproduction on websites. If you want to to direct your wiki users to content that is freely available online, you can link to the page where the resource is found, but you wouldn't be able to copy/paste it to your wiki without permission from the copyright holder. If you wanted to provide a citation to an article in a database, you could also do that, but you couldn't (for example) take something from behind a paywall and post it on your own page. If you're creating PDF's from books or magazines and posting them on the internet, you're likely to be running afoul of copyright laws. If you are linking to PDF's that the copyright holder has made available to the general public, you're fine.

Fair Use does provide for certain kinds of use of copyrighted work, and would extend to something like quoting short passages for purposes of discussion, but reproducing an entire chapter or article in its entirety would be a fairly clear violation. It almost sounds like you're talking about an online version of a course packet (which you might be familiar with from college), but materials in course packs are technically required to be cleared for use by their publishers before being distributed to students. Publishers do sometimes charge for use of coursepack materials even in educational settings.

The Stanford University Library has a fantastic page about Copyright and Fair Use, the following is a link to their explanation as to how these apply to websites:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter6/index.html

..and info about coursepacks, which might be helpful:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter7/7-a.html

You CAN post materials in their entirety if you obtain permission to do so from the copyright holder (usually the publisher, sometimes the author). Some publishers are happy to grant permissions, some not so much. Info about requesting permissions (again, from Stanford) here:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter1/1-a.html

I hope this helps!

This isn't really an answer, but maybe it will help. I found that the Source is included in the International Index to Music Periodicals, an online database to which many university libraries subscribe. However, the actual text of the articles with the "Power 30" lists are not included. However, it might be possible to get the articles from your local library's Interlibrary Loan service. I can give you the citations for the issues and page numbers of the relevant issues if that would be helpful.

Here is one partial affirmative answer: Jay-Z topped the list in 2009. See http://power30.thesource.com/.