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Submission + - Waze hit with class action suit: plaintiff requests souce code under GPL. (2jk.org)

Submitted by jonklinger on Thursday March 27, 2014 @08:58AM

jonklinger writes: A class action lawsuit was brought against Waze, claiming that their source code and map data were licensed to Waze by the community under the GPL. The plaintiff, Roey Gorodish, requests a copy of the recent source code and map data.

This is (as far as I know) the first ever GPL class action suit, too bad it will be quashed by bad facts later as I see it.

Comment Re:One impoertant piece of information is missing (Score 1) 132

by jonklinger on Saturday December 22, 2012 @04:14PM (#42371141) Attached to: Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%94%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94_%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C#.D7.94.D7.A6.D7.A2.D7.AA_.D7.97.D7.95.D7.A7_.D7.9E.D7.9E.D7.A9.D7.9C.D7.AA.D7.99.D7.AA

Comment Re:One impoertant piece of information is missing (Score 2) 132

by jonklinger on Saturday December 22, 2012 @02:05PM (#42370343) Attached to: Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites

This is actually not a private bill, but a governmental bill. Meaning it is not being presented by any specific member of Knesset, but by the government itself.

Comment Re:Secret? (Score 1) 132

by jonklinger on Saturday December 22, 2012 @02:02PM (#42370333) Attached to: Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites

Not really; the secret part is the arguments the court ruled on. Meaning, you'll get a court order saying "well, we'll block access to your website, but we can't let you see the evidence we have saying that there's gambling going on there".

Submission + - Israel to try and block gambling and child porn websites, again. (2jk.org)

Submitted by

jonklinger

on Saturday December 22, 2012 @06:46AM

jonklinger writes: "Israel is to attempt, again, to pass a bill that authorizes police officers to issue warrants to Internet service providers to block or restrict access to specific websites involved either in gambling, child pornography or copyright infringement. The bill itself proposes that such administrative procedures shall be clandestine and that court decisions shall be made ex-parte, where some of the court’s ruling will not be even dislosed to the owner of the website, and the court may hear and use inadmissible evidence."

Submission + - Court to Prisoner: No XBox 360 for you. (google.com)

Submitted by

jonklinger

on Wednesday November 02, 2011 @01:44PM

jonklinger writes: "An Israeli Court rejected the appeal of a prisoner who requested to have an Playstation 3 or XBox device because there is no possibility to remove the internet connectivity apparatus from the device without harming its functionality. Therefore, prisoners cannot engage in gaming and will have to result to other kinds of violence."

Submission + - Israel's Supreme Court: Yes for Internet Anonymity (2jk.org)

Submitted by jonklinger on Saturday March 27, 2010 @05:25AM

jonklinger writes: The Israeli Supreme Court ruled this week that there is no civil procedure to reveal the identity of users behind an IP address, and that until such procedure shall be legislated, all internet postings, even torturous, may remain anonymous. The 69-page decision acknowledges the right for privacy and makes internet anonymity, de-facto, a constitutional right in Israel. Justice Rivlin noted that revealing a person behind an IP address is "an attempt to harness, prior to a legal proceeding, the justice system and a third party in order to conduct an inquiry which will lead to the revealing of a person committing a tort so that a civil suit could be filed against him".

Comment Tips, Tricks and a link to my practical guide. (Score 1) 270

by jonklinger on Tuesday January 12, 2010 @04:31PM (#30742330) Attached to: How To Judge Legal Risk When Making a Game Clone?

I wrote a brief review of copyrights and games a while ago; but you have to make sure that the following points are taken into consideration: Whilte the rules of the game cannot be copyrighted, the look and feel, name, code and images can be. Trademark and Passing off may also be a problem if you're using a registered name or passing off as one. As a rule, try to be transformative and add additional value. However, you should consult a lawyer. If your lawyer is experienced in the field, it should take him no more than an hour or two to say "go / no-go" for a simple game. [Decent disclosure, I am an Israel lawyer, and I teach Game Development Law in Beit Berl College, Israel]

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