New Copyright Law Amendment

לחצו כאן לקריאת העדכון בעברית

On January 1, 2019, the Knesset approved a significant new amendment to the Israeli Copyright Law ("Amendment") that focuses on the online use of protected works. We will review the main provisions of the Amendment below.

Indirect Liability for Communication to the Public:

The Amendment provides a new indirect liability for copyright infringement by way of using works that were made available to the public. The Amendment sets forth that a person or entity that, as part of a business, facilitates or extends the access to protected works that were made available to the public over the internet by copyright infringement, for the purpose of making revenue both from the extension of access and from the existence of an infringements, will be liable to copyright infringement if it knew or should have known of the infringement. It further determines that operating an ongoing infringement monitoring technology will not create