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Zohar Efroni

Zohar Efroni

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Founder of Berlin-based eLaw legal consulting and associate at CBM International LLP, specializing in intellectual property, Internet and media law, published extensively on the interaction between law and technology, especially in the context of property rights in intangible assets. Zohar focuses also on matters of information policy, privacy and IP management. He has been a resident scholar and a scholarship holder at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich, Germany. Zohar holds law degrees from Israel (LL.B.) and New York (LL.M. IP), as well as a legal Ph.D. (summa cum laude) with honors from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. He is admitted to practice law in Israel, New York and Germany. Field: IP, law and technology SSRN author's page: http://ssrn.com/author=441748

Recent articles

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Supreme Court Denies Cablevision Review

Today the Supreme Court reportedly resolved not to hear the appeal on the Second Circuit’s Cablevision decision. This denial comes shortly after the Court has r…

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Pam Samuelson on Google Books

Pam Samuelson offers some interesting reflections on the Google book search agreement. Her warnings are worth listening to. Prof. Samuelson is quite critical ab…

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Copyright reservations, anyone?

Link to the Greenpeace website here with the actual poster (PDF) featuring the slogan "Not Only Banks, Save Also the Environment!"…

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“Everything. I record everything.”

This quote belongs to Robin Bienfait, RIM’s Chief Information Office (CIO). RIM makes the BlackBerries, and the title line of this post recites Ms. Bienfait’s a…

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A Key Keywording Decision

Keywording (aka keying) is the practice of registering with search engine words, terms, acronyms etc. that are protected by trademarks owned by someone else. Th…

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ICANN's Plan for New Top Level Domains

ICANN’s recent initiative to open the generic domain names space to an application, register-your-favorite-gTLD process struck me as very problematic from the m…