As our lives go digital, so will, inevitably, our death. Emails we send, photographs we post, and thoughts we share are all stored digitally. These are users’ digital remains that reflect their digital personalities and at the same time, make up the memories for friends and family. After...

The digitization of social interactions and daily activities means that multiple aspects of our daily lives are documented and stored, and social interactions leave digital traces. The accumulated data does not evaporate upon death, and questions about posthumous privacy and impression...

Does law matter in the information environment? What can we learn from the experience of applying a particular legal regime to the online environment? Informational privacy (or, in European terms, data protection) provides an excellent illustration of the challenges faced by regulators who seek...

Copyright law allocates the initial ownership of works made by employees within the scope of employment, to the employer. The work-made-for-hire doctrine is based on agency law, which in turn is based on tort law. This article revisits the doctrine and proposes an obvious - yet novel - basis,...

The meeting point of global Intellectual Property (IP) norms and local culture produces an unsettled process of glocalization. The global and the local might merge, but they often conflict, and their intersection then mirrors another clash, between trade and culture. This article argues that...

Can informational privacy law survive Big Data? A few scholars have pointed to the inadequacy of the current legal framework to Big Data, especially the collapse of notice and consent, the principles of data minimization and data specification. These are first steps, but more is needed. To...

How did ordinary authors, publishers, copyright owners, and users act and interact within a particular, copyright setting? The historical view of the everyday life of copyright law — the way the law operated in practice — has by and large gone under the radar of mainstream copyright history....

This study explores the surveillance of Israeli teachers by CCTV systems (CCTVs), based on interviews with teachers who reported being monitored by CCTVs in their schools and with school principals using CCTVs to monitor teachers. The findings present and analyze forms of teachers’ CCTV...

Who is the author of ancient texts that have been carefuly deciphered by living scholars? The Dead Sea Scrolls case exemplifies this question. The Israeli Supreme Court awarded copyright to the scholar, Professor Elisha Qimron. The decision (August 2000) portrays Qimron as the quintessential...

This paper investigates the digitization and analysis of trademark registration notifications in "The Official Gazette" during the British Mandate in Palestine from 1917 to 1948. We address the challenges of digitizing poor-quality scans and evolving newspaper structures. By examining similar...