Volume V

Issue : 3: February 8, 2007

• Israeli Court Rules Operation of Foreign Gambling Website a Criminal Offence Under Israeli Law
• Patents for Dynamic Web Pages Undergo Re examination
• Federal Court Awards Maximum Statutory Damages for Copyright Infringements
• Political Attack TV Ads Potentially Breach Copyright Act
• New Jersey Appeals Court Strengthens Privacy Rights of Internet Users
• U.S. First Sale Doctrine Applies to Audiobooks
• eBay Bans Auctions of Virtual Goods
• U.S. Courts Frequently Cite Wikipedia
• Italian Court Decriminalizes Not for Profit Downloading
• WTO Finds U.S. Non-Compliant with its Internet Gambling Decision
• Canadian Tax Authorities to Use Software to Catch Online Tax Evaders
• U.S. Court of Appeals Rejects Bid to Overturn Copyright Extensions for "Orphaned" Works

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Israeli Court Rules Operation of Foreign Gambling Website a Criminal Offence Under Israeli Law

In a recent decision, the Rishon Le Zion Magistrate's Court in Israel ruled that the operation of a gambling website in Israel is an offence under the Israeli Criminal Act, which prohibits the operating of gambling activities, even though the servers on which the website is hosted are located outside of Israel. The operation of the website is considered by the Court to be a “local offence” given that the website was in Hebrew, aimed at Israeli users, and one on which Israeli users gamble and pay with Israeli credit cards.

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