Brief bio

Guy Pessach is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an Affiliate Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School, where he had also carried his post-doctoral studies as a Fulbright scholar. Guy's main areas of interest are copyright law, information law and the interface of law, culture and innovative communication technologies. Guy's current research focuses on social remembering, digital cultural preservation and their interface with legal regulation. Guy is the recipient of the Alon Fellowship by the state of Israel for outstanding young scholars.

Representative Publications

Chapters in Collections

1. "Allocating Speech Resources – Toward a Distributive Paradigm of Free Speech", The Legal Culture of Free Speech (Ramot, Tel-Aviv University, Editor Michael D. Birnhack), 299-353 (2006) (54 pages) (in Hebrew).

2. "The Author’s Moral Right and Freedom of Speech", Essays in Honour of Joshua Weisman (S. Lerner & D. Lewinsohn-Zamir eds., The Harry and Michael Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, Jerusalem), 463-556 (2002) (93 pages) (in Hebrew).

Articles

1. "Reciprocal Share-Alike Exemptions in Copyright Law", Cardozo Law Review (2008) (forthcoming);

2. "[Networked] Memory Institutions Social Remembering, Privatization and its Discontents", 26 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, 71-149 (2008);

3. "Museums, Digitization and Copyright Law - Taking Stock and Looking Ahead", forthcoming in, The Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law (2007) (approximately 30 pages).

4. "The Role of Libraries and A2K – Taking Stock and Looking Ahead" (Symposium comment), forthcoming in, Michigan State Law Review (2007) (approximately 12 pages).

5. "An International-Comparative Analysis of Peer to Peer File-Sharing - Framing Past -Present and Next Generation Questions" forthcoming in Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Winter, 2007) (approximately 50 pages).

6. "Israeli Copyright Law - A Positive Economic Perspective", 39(3) Israel Law Review, 35-91 (2006) (56 pages).

7. “Collective Administration of Copyright - The Role of Justice and Fairness Considerations", 2(2)Haifa University Law Review - Din Udvarim, 261-314 (2006) (53 pages) (in Hebrew).

8. "Broadcasting Rights", 10 HaMishpat, 131-155 (2005) (24 pages) (in Hebrew).

9. “Media, Markets, and Democracy: Revisiting an Eternal Triangle, Critical Notice: Media, Markets and Democracy by Edwin C. Baker”, 17 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 209-226 (2004) (17 pages).

10. "Copyright Law as a Silencing Restriction on Non-Infringing Materials – Unveiling the Scope of Copyright’s Diversity Externalities”, 76 University of Southern California Law Review, 1067-1104 (2003) (37 pages).

11. "The Author’s Moral Right of Integrity in Cyberspace - A Preliminary Normative Framework”, 34 IIC – International Review of Industrial Property and Copyright Law (Max-Planck Institute Publications), 250-270 (2003).