The "Kaan" broadcasting corporation used video clips taken from a film produced at the request of a synagogue rabbi documenting the inauguration ceremony of the synagogue.
The Court dismissed the claim for copyright infringement filed by the film's producer and determined that no copyrights were infringed upon. Israeli law sets that the creator is the owner of the first copyright in a commissioned work documenting a public event, but this is only if there is no other agreement regarding ownership between the consignor and the creator. Here, the broadcasting corporation received the film from the customer, and it was determined that the agreement between the customer and the creator did not include any usage restrictions for the customer and hence the creator did not see the film as his work and there was an arrangement between them, according to which the ownership of the rights in the video is given to the customer.