Dear Clients and Friends, On January 1, 2019, the Knesset
approved Amendment No. 5 to Israel's Copyright Law, 2007
(respectively, the "Amendment" and the
"Law").
The Amendment adds four main matters to the Law: 1. Indirect
copyright infringement by making available to the public; 2.
Restriction of access to an internet site by court order; 3.
Exposing the identity of copyright infringers on the internet; and
4. Use of "orphan" works.
Indirect Copyright Infringement by Making Available to the
Public (adding Section 48A to the Law):
Under new Section 48A a person will be considered an indirect
infringer if they have, by way of business and for profit,
facilitated public access to a copyright-protected work that had
previously been made available to the public in an infringing
manner, provided that at the time of performing such action they
knew, or should have known, of the infringing nature of the manner
in which the work had been made available.
