Will YouTube Laws Stop Israeli Music From Going Global?

A new front has opened in the digital age’s war on copyright infringement. Israeli Internet surfers–used to uploading video clips of local musicians onto YouTube–discovered a few weeks ago that Unicell, a company which represents the digital rights of, among others, Sarit Hadad, Regev Hod, Koby Peretz and Lior Narkis, had closed their user accounts on the site, claiming copyright abuse.

This story is just one example of legal wranglings over the ambiguities surrounding music copyright on the Internet. The gap between performers and their fans is widening and deepening in the digital age: private users, who do not make commercial use of the content they upload, many times violate copyright law without even knowing it.

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