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In Linux It Wouldn’t Happen: Russia, Microsoft and the Politization of Copyright

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Jonathan
Intellectual Property laws have more than a few political implications; many times issues of political speech interfere with copyright. For example, Shepard Fairey, an artist who authored the famous &... Read More

For Profit: Shertzer v. Samira and Creative Commons

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Jonathan
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 More

Could Fair Use be as important as Copyright?

Posted on April 28, 2010April 28, 2010 by Jonathan
A recent report by the IT Industry about the breadth of fair use (via boingboing) states that industries that are built upon fair use constitute around one sixth of the US gross domestic product, and ... Read More

The Bully: Copyright, Damages and Legal Strategy.

Posted on January 30, 2010January 30, 2010 by Jonathan
Around a month ago I went to court to discuss a case which I counsel with another attorney. The case was quite simple: The plaintiff claimed that the defendant, which we represented, took from its web... Read More

Hamakor, Israel’s Open Source Society, calls for annulment of Software Patents.

Posted on January 19, 2010January 19, 2010 by Jonathan
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 More

Book to Book, Sharing is Caring

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Jonathan
Circumventing Amazon‘s Kindle Digital Restriction Management (DRM) earlier this week may be a small revolution and a new path into turning the human knowledge into something collective, distribu... Read More

Restitutional Justice in Copyright, or why should Copyright Holders seek justice from the ISPs.

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Jonathan
The research we conducted with Ynet News in regards to p2p throttling and DPI in Israel, which was (even after reading the criticism) most likely the most comprehensive in Israel, even though it neede... Read More

Tenenbaum and The Right for Fair Use

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Jonathan
[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

GPL, plug-ins, themes and derivative works, the case of ‘Free as in Pizza’

Posted on July 4, 2009January 16, 2018 by Jonathan
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

Game Development, Piracy and Plagiarism

Posted on April 20, 2009 by Jonathan
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
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About Jonathan J. Klinger, Adv.

Jonathan Klinger

 Jonathan Klinger is an Israeli Attorney, a master of Law (LL.M) and a bachelor in Law, Diplomacy and strategy. Jonathan is a cyber-rights activist.

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