Yesterday, the Israeli Tax Authority issued a draft guideline for issuance of utility tokens. The full text is in Hebrew and available here. But in summary, the guidelines are welcoming and invitin...Read More
0. Israel is to attempt, again, to pass a bill that authorizes police officers to issue warrants to Internet service providers to block or restrict access to specific websites involved either in gambl...Read More
0. Abstract. [This Wednesday I shall lecture at the LiSS working group conference, here is a draft of my lecture] From 2003, and until today, the Israeli Government has been working diligently in orde...Read More
Last Thursday marked the final approval of the biometric database regulations and the biometric database order in Israel; the regulations and order were approved by a special panel participated solely...Read More
[or: “aren’t there some words you could add to the terms and conditions to make this sh*t legal?“] The latest ruling in Mortensen v. BRESNAN COMMUNICATION, LLC, Dist. Court, D. Mo...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
A rumor was spread that Israel was the brain behind an elaborate trojan horse, Stuxnet, which alegedly penetrated into the Iranian nuclear reactor and apparently caused damage. the trojan horse contam...Read More
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
The US Courts of Appeals’ ruling in Maynard v United States amends and reinstates to certainty the right for privacy in public places. Around two years ago I said that “the problem with on...Read More
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