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The new Israeli Copyright Law of 2007

On Monday, November 19, 2007, the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) enacted a new Copyright Law, which represents a complete transformation of Israeli intellectual property law. In May, 2008, within six months of the new law's publication in the official publication, the 96 year-old Copyright Law currently in force will be abolished. The current law, which has its roots in the English ...

Exposing secret appendices of franchises of ISPs

Secret appendices were attached to franchises of the cellular companies and the ISPs received from the state. According to these appendices, the suppliers are obligated to transfer to the security forces - I.D.F, General Security Services, Hamosad, the Israel Police and the prison service - any information on surfing figures of the internet surfers in Israel, upon their request. This ...

Employer's right to monitor employees' email appealed

TheMarker.com recently reported  [Hebrew] a request for an appeal to the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Tribunal's decision that allows employers to read and monitor employees' email messages. The appeal was filed with the National Labor Court in Jerusalem. Last July, Judge Sigal Davidov-Motola established that in order to read employee's email messages, the employer must fulfill the provisions of the ...

New law regulates access to communication data

Law enforcement agencies in Israel have been granted broad access to information held by telecommunication service providers, under legislation aimed at regulating communication data transfer during the course of criminal investigations. Following several months of deliberation by the Israeli Knesset’s Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, the Communication Data Law, formally called the Criminal Procedure (Enforcement Powers – Communication Data) Law, ...

Petition to the Supreme Court: recognize web users as journalists

The Israeli High Court of Justice recently granted a petition to review a claim by an Israeli user-generated news website named "Scoop.co.il" to recognize its writers as Journalists. The petition was filed against the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO).

The petitioner is looking for two remedies: it asks to recognize itself as 'media' and its writers as 'Journalists'. These definitions ...

Bill of indictment for extortion women he met at JDate.com

A bill of indictment was filed lately with the Tel-Aviv District Court against Eduard Nasimov, a suspect in serious offences he committed to four women he met via the leading acquaintanceship jewish website http://www.jdate.com. The defendant is accused in threat, extortion, stealing, receiving something deceitfully, assaulting, sexual harassment, etc. According to the bill of indictment, Nasimov, a 25 years ...
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