Zohar Efroni’s blog
The blog discusses intellectual property law and technology issues, in particular copyright law and policy in the digital environment.
Author: Zohar Efroni is a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany, and a nonresident fellow at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School.
Blawg Related Categories: Intellectual Property Law • Copyright Law • International Law • Stanford University
Recent Posts from Zohar Efroni’s blog
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The Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings & Cablevision Systems
The Second Circuit decided The Cartoon Network v. CSC Holdings & Cablevision already two and a half weeks ago. This means light years in terms of blogging, but due to its importance I've decided to…
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Jacobsen v. Katzer/Kamind – Federal Circuit Upholds a Free Software License
As reported by Lessig and others, the Federal Circuit vacated and remanded yesterday a ruling by the Northern District of California which denied the copyright claims of an open source software developer for violations of…
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Draft Introduction
A brief Draft Introduction to my study on copyright law is now available for download here.
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Copy knol
There is a guy by the name of Meir Shraga. I did not know him until today, but now I can even see his picture smiling at me from the knol he has published for…
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Access-Right: An Inquiry Into the Problem of Digital Copyright Law
I have just completed the draft of my extended study on copyright law, where I examine issues of access, access to information and digital copyright law. At bottom, I do not propose to abolish copyright…
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Lessig on the orphan works bill
Prof. Lessig has an OP-ED in the NYT today about the orphan works bill rolling now in Congress. Among the important points mentioned there, here are my three favorites: (1) to the extent that foreign…
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"Who needs copyright, anyway?"
John Degen, a Canadian novelist, has a thoughtful post on how he has resolved to make his latest novel, The Uninvited Guest, freely available for download online. It his a short yet touching divulgation of…
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Create a personal website in 2 minutes
Israel is a buzzing hive of small start-up technology companies that produce great ideas and original solutions. One of them is WIX, which offers a (free - as far as I could judge) web-based tool…
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Paper Abstract: Ontology of Information
I’ve just put the abstract of a new paper on my SSRN page. Temporary title is: Ontology of Information and its Lessons for Intellectual Property. The full abstract is available here (I am not yet…
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Old-Style Canadian Formalities and Copyright Reform
Next month Stanford CIS is hosting a conference about Legal Futures. Judging by the list of participants, the upcoming even should be nothing less than electrifying. This post is unrelated to the conference. In fact,…