In a case with far reaching consequences for copyright law in Israel, the District Court of Tel-Aviv rejected a claim filed by the FA Premier League and the other senior English and Scottish Football Leagues against the Israel Sports Betting Council in which the Leagues claimed that the council infringes copyright in their fixtures lists by using English fixtures in its betting forms.
January, 2008 A new ruling of the Tel Aviv District Court deals with the intersection of copyright law and the freedom of artistic expression. The suit deals with the Tel Aviv Museum
November 2007 The Copyright Law of 1911, states that the copyright in a work by a salaried employee belongs to his employer. Nevertheless, the law permits a journalist the right to prohibit the publication of articles_old or other works he may have written
July, 2006 Article on Israel's Supreme Court ruling that the Patent and Trademark Authority acted correctly when it allowed the registration of the mark E! Online for online services despite the existing registration of the mark T Online in the same class.
March, 2006 by Tony Greenman, attorney at law At the end of 2005, the Ministry of Justice circulated a draft e-commerce bill. The bill designed to tackle a limited number of issues in e-commerce, including e-contract formation and ISP obligations to users in regard to personally identifying data, contains an important section on ISP liability.
April, 2005 Two recent rulings of Israeli District Courts have addressed the inherent tension that exists between copyright and the principal of the freedom of information in the digital world. In both cases the courts denied petitions for preliminary injunctions, in which the petitioners sought to use copyright law in order to prevent the copying and publication of factual information on the internet
