Published in Afik News 209 20.07.2016
A company that sells its products through a website discovered that one of its distributors opened another website for marketing the same products using images and descriptions taken from the company's website.
The Court held that the originality requirement in a creation is the first requirement for the existence of copyright in the work, and an image that appears on a website and was taken for the purposes of marketing is a copyrighted work. The description of the products and how to use them are also protected because the collection of certain facts, manner of speech and the choice of specific facts to describe them, grant the copyright protection. Thus, the Court awarded compensation to the company