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Israeli Court Enforces for the First Time a Creative Commons License. A court in Israel found that taking CC-licensed pictures from Flickr and publishing them in a book violated the copyright in each and every picture separately.

Israeli Court Enforces for the First Time a Creative Commons License

(Source: www.law.co.il, including a link to the decision in Hebrew). The facts are trivial: Plaintiffs, amateur photographers, uploaded their pictures to Flickr under a CC attribution, non-commercial, no-derivative license. Defendant, a commercial publisher, published the pictures both in a physical format (a book) and some of them also on its website. To the court it was evident that such unauthorized use violated all three conditions of the Creative Commons license.

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