The Financial Times published yesterday that the master recordings of mega-star Taylor Swift were sold to a private equity firm. These master recordings are the basis for Swift’s songs, and are ...Read More
Quite a lot has been going on through the grape vine and blogoshpere about the recent legal dispute between Wix and WordPress. The story began last week, when Matt Mullenweg, WordPress’ founder,...Read More
An interesting class action lawsuit has been brought in Israel against Waze, the Israeli navigation company who were acquired by Google last year. The class action raises an interesting question: acco...Read More
A recent Israel court ruling stated that linking to copyright infringing content does not constitute a direct copyright infringement (CA 567-08-09 ALIS – Association for the protection of cinema...Read More
Software patents are a problem, not a solution; that’s why when the Israeli Patent Registrar wanted to hear what the public thinks of them, we (at Hamakor, Israel’s Free Software and Open ...Read More
In about two weeks time, I’ll attend the Wikimania2011 Conference and discuss Cultural Fair Use, Political Narrative and Copyright; while this might sound as one big mashup, because there is no ...Read More
0. About a month ago I blogged about the requirement to protect cloud storage users from the cloud service providers. I offered a mechanism to protect a person’s files from the cloud and gave Dr...Read More
A year ago, I conducted alongside Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski a comprehensive research about Fair Use in Israel, which was made for Consumers International. The 2010 Report about Fair Use in Israel was the f...Read More
0.Why are everyone afraid of open source? One of the most amazing things is that in a material portion of the Share Purchase Agreements (or investment agreements) I’ve reviewed in my life, the i...Read More
Software, as a matter of principle, is usually licensed but not sold; this is what the recent ruling in 42:07-cv-01189-RAJ Vernor v. Autodesk was all about. Therefore, usually, when a person sells (or...Read More
