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39 B.U. Int'l L.J. 181 (2021)
Replacing God with Big Data: Personalizing Copyright Law

handle is hein.journals/builj39 and id is 193 raw text is: REPLACING GOD WITH BIG DATA: PERSONALIZING COPYRIGHT LAW Ayelet Hoffmann Libson* & Adi Libson** ABSTRACT Can religious law serve as a source of inspiration for a modern legal system? As all religious legal systems, Jewish law includes statutes that rely on a premise of divine omniscience. By assuming a worldview in which God sees into the human heart, Jewish law can allow for subjective and personalized legal norms that derive from individuals' assessments of value or need. Ostensibly, the centrality of divine omniscience in enabling such laws renders them irrelevant to a secular legal system. This article highlights how, surprisingly, the legal structure of these norms may nonetheless be a fruitful source of inspiration for a modern legal system. The article focuses on the Jewish legal model of personalized copyright, and demonstrates how this model could be applied in modern secular law by replacing the function of the belief in divine omniscience with the use of big data. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................... 182 I. PERSONALIZATION IN JEWISH LAW ....................................................... 186 II. THE PROBLEM OF COPYRIGHT IN JEWISH LAW .................................... 189 A. Models of Copyright Protection ................................................ 190 B. Contemporary Problems and the Solution of Personalized Law.......................................................................................... 198 III. CAN PERSONALIZED COPYRIGHT LAW BE APPLIED IN A MODERN LEGAL CONTEXT? .......................................................................... 201 A. Personalization and the Generality of the Law ......................... 202 B. Personalization of Copyright Without God? ............................. 204 CONCLUSION ............................................................................................. 205 * Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Ph.D., New York University; B.A. Hebrew University. ** Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University. Ph.D., Bar-Ilan University; LL.M., New York University, LL.B., Hebrew University; B.A., Hebrew University. We thank Liel Cohen for research assistance. 181

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