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SubscribeThe mere offer or option to sell a counterfeit copy of a work infringes copyright and does not require actual sale
Commercial, Banking and Financial
Dispute Resolution
Copyright, Trademarks Media and Artists
A police search revealed a warehouse containing 131 forged copies of five textbooks in Arabic. The company that produces the books claimed copyright infringement. The Court held that copyright infringement could be direct or indirect. Indirect infringement involves the existence of an infringing copy of the work, performing an action that only the copyright […]
Employer: Do not invite an employee to a termination hearing before seeking alternatives for his employment in another position
Labor Law and Immigration
An employer holds a conversation with a veteran employee who is close to the retirement age, during which he explained that he wished to remove the employee from his administrative position due to pertinent considerations of structural changes in the company. The parties agree that the employer will consider options for continuing the employment of […]
A right of claim by a shareholder will lapse if could have known of illegal withdrawal by another and did not act upon that
Business, Corporate and Joint Ventures
High-Tech and Technology
Dispute Resolution
A company for investment in high-tech was financed by funds injected into it by the shareholders. Upon the outbreak of a dispute between the shareholders, one of them demanded a full refund of the shareholders loan while the other contended that the money was an investment rather than a loan and that funds that were […]
Managing a group of companies while mixing assets between them may result in the lifting of the screen of incorporation between the group’s companies
Business, Corporate and Joint Ventures
Dispute Resolution
A supplier who sold goods to a company that is part of a group of companies did not receive payment and asked to see the group and its shareholders as jointly and severally liable to him. The Court held that the establishment of serial companies without economic grounds is fundamentally an indication of the […]
An apartment owner may not rent the apartment in Airbnb or Booking.com short term rentals contrary to the provisions of the condominium’s bylaws
Real Estate
Dispute Resolution
An apartment owner rented the apartment for short-term using websites such as Airbnb and Booking, despite a stipulation in the bylaws of the condominium stating that the use of the apartments will be exclusively for residential purposes. The Supervisor of the Condominiums held that the condominiums bylaws are an agreement between the parties and one […]
Summoning to a hearing prior to termination of employment needs be within reasonable time in advance and include all reasons for termination
Labor Law and Immigration
Dispute Resolution
An employee was summoned to a hearing only one day prior to the hearing date, when the summoning was general and stated that the cause of the dismissal was non-conformity with the requirements of the position and the relationship between the employee and the manager. The hearing also included grounds for termination that did not […]
The publication of defamation in order to sabotage a competing business is a reason to aggravate the award of compensation
Commercial, Banking and Financial
Dispute Resolution
Privacy, GDPR, Confidentiality and protection of reputation
An assistant in a nursery school whose employment was terminated opened a competing nursery two doors away from the nursery where she worked. In response, the nursery teacher sent a Whatsapp message to her clients stating that during the employment of that assistant, deep failures were discovered in the way she works and her approach […]
