Intellectual Property Law In Israel

Copyright:

Israel grants copyright protection to original literary, artisctic, dramatic and musical works, as well as sound recordings and computer programs. Cinematic works are protected as dramatic works. With a few exeptions, protection of a work runs from the date of creation until the end of the seventieth year after the year of the death of the author. However, sound recordings and photographs created before May 25th, 2008 are protected for fifty years only (although at the time of writing a bill which will extend the term of protection to 70 years is pending before the Knesset). Moral rights of authors, specifically the right of paternity or attribution and the right of integrity, are also protected.