This Wednesday I’ll speak in CloudCon 2011, instead of a regulatory lecture, I decided to focus about a technological solution to a legal problem, which I believe might be elegant. I’d app...Read More
A year ago, I conducted alongside Dr. Nimrod Kozlovski a comprehensive research about Fair Use in Israel, which was made for Consumers International. The 2010 Report about Fair Use in Israel was the f...Read More
0.Why are everyone afraid of open source? One of the most amazing things is that in a material portion of the Share Purchase Agreements (or investment agreements) I’ve reviewed in my life, the i...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 inĂ‚Â Mortensen v. BRESNAN COMMUNICATION, LLC, Dist. Court, D. Mo...Read More
0. The Wall Street Journal’s findings that Facebook applications share personal and identifiable information with 3rd parties and advertising networks was not surprising though it echoed in the ...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
0. Around two days ago, Israeli ISPs began to block access to certain websites from Israel. The list of the websites is considered confidential, and included, by media reports two websites related to ...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