Fair Use

Israel’s Fair Use

Zohar Efroni — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:05:25 -0800

Some time ago I did a post on the new copyright legislation in Israel. There are many interesting things about this law, and now, at the curtsey of Prof. Niva Elkin-Koren from Haifa University, there is an unofficial English translation of the new statute available.

Fair Use Project to Represent RDR Books in Harry Potter Lexicon Dispute

Zohar Efroni — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:51:01 -0800

Here's a link to the press release. It is not my jurisdiction to cover this development - I trust you’ll hear more details and updates from Anthony and his team soon. I'd only say it looks like one of the most exiting and challenging fair use cases I’ve seen recently and a must-follow one. From the press release:

Be carefull out there, dear bloggers

Zohar Efroni — Tue, 01 May 2007 11:29:53 -0700

I am echoing here a post from Science Commons’ blog featuring another juicy story of apparent abuse of copyrights against a science student at the University of Michigan who posted on her blog tables and charts taken from a peer-view scientific magazine and quickly received a cease and desist letter from the publisher.

Who said Russia doesn’t enforce IP rights?

Zohar Efroni — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:44:37 -0700

Alexander Ponosov is a teacher in a small Russian village who was prosecuted for violating Microsoft’s intellectual property rights by installing illegal versions of Windows operating system and Word software (see Balazs Bodo’s post here). Ponosov claimed to his defense that the 12 new computers at issue were delivered already with the unlicensed software installed.

Update on primary and secondary authority searches for "fair use" defense of unlicensed video clips

Jeff Laretto — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 16:02:26 -0800

Yesterday I finished my draft of my preliminary search results for primary and secondary authority covering the application of the fair use defense to 'borrowed' video clips in documentaries.