Dr. Thomas Büchner

Dr. Thomas Büchner (born 1981) studied Law at the University of Leipzig and worked as a student assistant at the Institute of Broadcasting Law with Prof. Dr. Christoph Degenhart. From 2007 to 2009 he worked as a researcher at the Faculty of Civil Law, Civil Procedure Law and Copyright Law with Prof. Dr. Christian Berger. Since 2009 Thomas Büchner has been a legal clerk at the hanseatic regional appeal court Hamburg. Further he teaches media law at the Leipzig School of Media. In 2010 he gained a doctoral degree on the topic “Die rechtlichen Grundlagen der Übertragung virtueller Güter” [The Legal Foundations for the Transfer of Virtual Goods]. His interests focus on the area of copyright. As research fellow at Hans Bredow Institute he is concerned with creativity and copyright in the net economy.