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....

The article examines shifts in the role of the State in the information environment, and focuses on the recent, innovative, cooperation between the State and private parties. We argue that while assuming the role of a regulator, the State allowed private nodes of control to emerge and develop in...

Our study examines the deployment of CCTV systems in Israeli schools, which is taking place in the shadow of an ambiguous law. Based on semi-structured interviews, the study portrays a picture of partial isomorphism among schools. We frame the findings within institutional theory, which...

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...

The Eurocentric term ‘Middle East’ captures the historical sources and the emergence of Intellectual Property (IP) in this region. The initial European (British and French, replacing the Ottoman Empire) influence had a long lasting effect, and its laws, sometimes reformulated into local...

In The Electronic Silk Road: How the Web Binds the World in Commerce (Yale University Press, 2013), Anupam Chander places the globalization of information services under the spotlight. Net-Work or Trade 2.0 is the phenomenon of information services delivered remotely through communication...

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...

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...