[Partailly based on a work in progress called: Towards a New Approach In Fair Use: Could there be a right for fair use?, forthcoming]. Judge Nancy Gernter‘s Rejection of Joel Tenenbaum‘s f...Read More
0. We lost the skyline. The parliament approved yesterday Meir Sheetrit‘s proposal to establish a biometric database. After a few months of delay, including endless discussions in parliament try...Read More
During the last few weeks I’ve been actively lobbying against the Biometric Database bill in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament). I participated in the hearing held in the Knesset’s Science C...Read More
When Richard Stallman first thought of Free Software he had the four basic freedoms of the GPL in mind: the freedom to run the program, the freedom to modify the source code, the freedom to redistribu...Read More
Written with Adv. Effi Fuks, LL.B. for the International conference on Online Dispute Resolution taking place at Haifa University today. Abstract: The Israeli Legal system suffers from great burden an...Read More
0. What is worse, Piracy or Plagiarism? The new media usually suffers from both, where downloading games causes grave harm for game developers, causing not only loss of sales, but also crashing server...Read More
Sometimes, we prefer to lose our privacy in exchange for comfort; we do so when we store our contacts on a cellular phone or when we print business cards which we exchange with strangers; the social i...Read More
Next week I’ll be giving a lecture at the GarageGeeks HQ with Joi Ito, Nimrod Kozlovsky and Yoni Har-Carmel about Creative Commons Licenses and their use in business; Unlike open source lice...Read More
Amazon’s Kindle was a big copyright fuss; Kindle was an electronic book reading apparatus which enabled users to read books, including reading them aloud via a text-to-speech mechanism. However,...Read More
Could technological measures designed to ease real life be illegal? When we discuss technology as a person’s long arm, we imagine a loom which replaced Ned Lud and the Luddites, we imagine wheel...Read More