Category: copyleft
For Profit: Shertzer v. Samira and Creative Commons
The District Court’s decision in CA 1055/09 Liat Shertzer-Bar v. Rebecca Samira (see also Haim Ravia‘s summary) is a substantial decision not only under privacy protection laws, but ... Read MoreHamakor, Israel’s Open Source Society, calls for annulment of Software Patents.
After a few weeks of work, and many comments from various open source enthusiasts, we (Hamakor) filed our memorandum today in response to the Israeli Patent Authority’s call for submissions (mor... Read MoreTenenbaum and The Right for Fair Use
[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 MoreGPL, plug-ins, themes and derivative works, the case of ‘Free as in Pizza’
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 MoreCreative Commons means Business: CC and $$
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 MoreIsraeli ISPs Blocked Access to a File Sharing Site
0. By the order of the court, the formal Defendants 2-3, the Israeli ISPs, have blocked access to the Defendant’s website, Ynet, following it’s publication of slandering content claiming t... Read MoreThe new Israeli Law and File Sharing
Tommorw, the Israeli Knesset’s Economics committee will discuss the new Israeli Copyright Act. while many artists protest against this Act, I feel obliged to point out one substantial advantage ... Read MoreCommonly Creative
If you don’t want other people to use your work, don’t license it under a CC license.That’s the basics of Creative Commons Licenses. You share your creative works with others, since ... Read MoreDominus Verax
One of the greatest questions asked by artists and other creators (photographers, musicians, publicists and bloggers) is how should they protect their contents against plagiarism and copyright violati... Read More- 2 of 2
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