Today, societal speech activities are increasingly conducted online. Therefore, free speech concerns focus on the digital sphere. Major online service platforms operate speech moderation practices constraining digital speech. These platforms are run by a few multinational corporations — the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on our social, economic and political lives. While the race to develop vaccines has yielded results in record time, ensuring widespread, affordable access to these vaccines remains a major challenge. Vaccines are now in a race against new, more...

The digital information environment functions today as the backbone of democracies. This environment is operated by online intermediaries that control the flow of information and monitor content running through their “pipelines.” Thus far, content monitoring has been conducted with almost no...

The gender gap in academia has long been the focus of public discourse regarding the role of academic institutes in promoting social values. Integrating women into senior academic positions, especially in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) fields, is an essential aspect...

Exceptions and limitations to the rights of copyright owners aim to promote copyright goals in a rapidly changing world. Policymakers are often faced with the choice of either adopting an open-norm, such as fair use, to facilitate flexibility and adaptability, or opt for a strictly defined list...

Because a patent is a license for a monopoly affecting the public good, the process of patent prosecution deserves close scrutiny. Yet, significant aspects of this process remain unexplored. In particular, two central thresholds for patent eligibility, “novelty” and “non-obviousness,”...

Copyright law was designed to achieve the societal goal of promoting progress, by encouraging the creation of works and by safeguarding their accessibility. However, some fundamental failures, including the chilling effect (a result of the current system), prevent optimal use of copyrighted...

The new Israeli Copyright Act, which was recently passed by the Israeli Parliament, adopts a mechanism which does not deprive employees of moral rights, while limiting such rights in appropriate cases, based on a standard of reasonableness. This solution to the on-going dilemma with respect to...

This article addresses a proposed new standard in copyright law - the "implied license" doctrine, which has the potential to play a prominent role in copyright conflicts, especially in the context of digital media. The implied license doctrine is not new to intellectual property law however its...