Israeli District Court Rejects Disney’s Forum Shopping in Infringement Case
A multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate decides to sue a small Israeli import company – New Time Food Machines Ltd. (“New Food”) – for alleged intellectual property infringements. The conglomerate seeks to set the procedural rules to its convenience to pressure the small business. This is a short story of a contemporary struggle between David […]
Facebook ordered by Israeli Court to restore page shut down for selling camouflaged advertising
Tel Aviv (Israel) District Court recently ordered Facebook to restore Statusim Metzayzim (“Tweeting Statuses”), which used to be one of the most popular Facebook pages in Israel. Facebook shut down the page 3 years ago after the owners of the page admitted that they sold camouflaged advertising. Facebook shut down the page without any prior […]
BIG BROTHER SUES ISRAELI REALITY SHOW FOR COPYING (IPWATCHDOG, MAR. 14, 2012)
Endemol’s claim that the Israeli reality show “24/7: The Next Generation” is a copy will leave the Israeli TV market shaken. What happens when two television reality show producers – one Dutch, one Israeli – meet in real life? Will they abide by the genre codes of conduct they themselves developed? This question might be […]
The above article in IPWatchdog quoted in The Hollywood Reporter in an article by Eric Gardner (Mar. 14, 2012)
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