Prof. Ariel Katz cited in Supreme Court of Israel decision on copyright

On Tuesday, Sept, 3, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an important decision regarding the interface between copyright and competition law and the oversight of collective rights management organizations. The decision includes three citations of two articles by Prof. Ariel Katz.

The decision was written by Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, previously a law professor at Tel Aviv University, who was a Distinguished Visitor at the Faculty of Law several times recently before her appointment to the Supreme Court last year.

The case name is: CA 5365/11 ACUM – Association of Composers, Authors, and Publishers v. The General Director of Restrictive Trade Practices

The decision is available on the Supreme Court of Israel website (PDF, Hebrew).