Category: copyright
When its valves fuse | Kindle and Turing
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 MoreGuitar Heronoid: The Mechanical Chinaman, a question following MDY v. Blizzard
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 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 MoreJury Trial, Is It the end for Filesharing or Filesharing lawsuits?
Though the record companies had a minor victory in the MGM V. Grokster case, the Record Industry Association of America had came to terms with the fact that even the president of the United States sha... Read MoreRingtonisation
(Originally posted in Hebrew, sorry for giving outgoing links only to Hebrew sites, but this might be interesting also for non-Hebrew speaking readers) 0. My enemy’s enemy is not my friend Israe... 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 MoreLex ex machina
Sometimes, but just sometimes, Things aren’t used for the purpose they were planned for. Technology, as my dear friend Yuval Dror expressed in his book, is neutral, it’s the people who dec... Read MoreAdbusting, Adblocking and Copyright Infringement
Cnet’s News.com published an article last week regarding the legality of Ad Blocking software (via Aviv Eylon). Most of the claims against the Adblock extension in Firefox could be summarised in... Read More- 3 of 4
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