Information technology and digital networks are global, and information can easily cross borders, but laws are territorial, local, and specific. This is the meeting of the global and the local. Imposing local laws onto global technology can result in a conflict, but it may give birth to a new...

תקציר בעברית: לתהליך העיור שמור מקום של כבוד—גם אם שנוי במחלוקת—בעלייתה של הזכות לפרטיות במאה ה-19 בחברה המערבית. המעבר לעיר הגדולה הביא לאנונימיות ולריחוק בין...

Trademark law protects distinctive signs of products against unauthorized uses. It is a legal tool to enhance market efficiency, by conveying information about the origin of goods to consumers. Trademarks are also carriers of cultural information about the manufacturers, their products, and...

Copyright is no longer a matter of promoting the progress of science in the words of the U.S. Constitution. It is now more than ever before a matter of trade. Furthermore, under the WTO's TRIPS Agreement, we now have a global copyright (Gcopy;) regime. The globalization of copyright law...

Is technology-neutral legislation possible? Technological neutrality in legislation is often praised for its flexibility and ability to apply to future technologies. Yet, time and again we realize that even if the law did not name any technology, it was nevertheless based on an image of a...

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,...

Privacy and technology are entangled in an endless relationship. Privacy is said to have died, but persistent research, as well as our daily experience, indicate otherwise: citizens and users are still interested in maintaining their privacy. The PRACTIS project forecasted future technology and...

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....