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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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Jury Instruction No. 15

The attorney of Jammie Thomas has resolved to appeal the jury verdict entered against her last week. That closely-followed trial culminated in awarding $222k in…

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Copyright and education

William Patry has an interesting post today about imbalanced educational campaigns directed to children concerning copyright violations. I suppose that one of t…

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Circumvention - a matter of geography

Most of the world seems to know by now how New Jersey teenager George Hotz cracked last week the Apple iPhone protection lock which tethers users to the mobile…

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Access-Right and Copyright Presentation

Next month I’ll be speaking about my work on copyright law at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. The title o…

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Soldiers of Fortune

TorrentFreak has a cute story about how politicians are receiving “a fair amount of money” (aka campaign contributions) from the RIAA and the MPAA to promote st…

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Effective TPMs the Finnish way

A district court in Finland ruled yesterday that the Content Scrambling System (CSS) - the standard technological protection measure for movies distributed on D…

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Take Down Stay Down

After a successful trial MySpace has announced its novel “Take Down Stay Down” campaign. The idea is that upon reception of notice about unauthorized upload of…