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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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Be carefull out there, dear bloggers

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…

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“Special 301” Report for 2007 is out

Here is the link. It’s an interesting reading, though not utterly astonishing with respect the usual suspects it names. No less than 43 trade partners of the U.…

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OECD user-created content report

I’ve just came across this report published recently by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) about User-Created Content (UCC). The…

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How close is "very close"?

Earlier this week Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted saying that YouTube is “very close” to turning on a filtering system that should prevent copyright co…

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Widgets aren’t welcome in TheirSpace

The NYT has the story about a popular blogger, Ms. Tequila, who was apparently contacted personally by MySpace’s founder, Tom Anderson, explaining to her why sh…

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CC Licensing and Copyright Abandonment

In a fresh law review article Prof. Lydia Pallas Loren explores a number of interesting issues concerning Creative Commons licensing. The article proposes to a…

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Informal Formalities

it seems that MySpace and YouTube are about to check fingerprints of media placed on their websites. This should become possible with the help of Audible Magic,…

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Remix and Fairness

Professor Robert Merges has commented recently on the remix debate, making the point that present copyright law should not be fundamentally changed in order to…