Category: copyright
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 MoreCould Fair Use be as important as Copyright?
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 MoreThe Bully: Copyright, Damages and Legal Strategy.
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 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 MoreBook to Book, Sharing is Caring
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 MoreRestitutional Justice in Copyright, or why should Copyright Holders seek justice from the ISPs.
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 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 MoreGame Development, Piracy and Plagiarism
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- 2 of 4
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