Till Kreutzer, Ph. D
Associate Research Fellow
Dr. Till Kreutzer (born 1971) is a lawyer and a partner at i.e. Consultant Bureau for Information Law in Hamburg/Berlin. He is a member of the "Institute for Legal Issues of free and open Software" (ifrOSS), founding member and editor at iRights.info, the information portal on copyright in the digital world for consumers and people working in the creative industry, winner of the Grimme-Online-Award 2006. Dr. Till Kreutzer teaches copyright law, trademark law, data protection law and personality rights at various institutions (among other at the Akademie für Publizistik and the Evangelische Journalistenschule). In the context of the reform of copyright in the information society, he was invited as expert to the hearing for the federal parliament legal committee at the enactment of the “Law on Regulation of Copyright in the Information Society” (First and Second Basket”) and was a member of the main working group, which the federal government had convened to set up the “Second Basket”. He is a lecturer in E-Learning and has developed various E-Learning modules and other learning and information materials on the topic of E-Learning and law, among other things the programme “Legal Issues in E-Learning”, which was awarded with the “European eLearning Award eureleA 2008”. Furthermore, he is the author of numerous articles on topics related to information law in specialist and consumer publications (eg. GRUR, CR, MMR, ZUM, brand eins, Telepolis, Süddeutsche Zeitung, EPD Medien, Stern). His dissertation with Prof. Dr. Hoffmann-Riem concerned the model of copyright and regulation alternatives and was published at the end of 2008 at Nomos Verlag (see also www.iRights.info).
Latest lectures
„Recht und E-Learning“ [Law and E-Learning], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the EDay 2009 in Duisburg on 22 August 2009.
„Urheberrecht und E-Learning“ [Copyright and E-Learning], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the „Forum E-Learning“ of the University of Potsdam and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam on 28 May 2009.
„Urheberrecht im Wandel - Kontroversen um und Herausforderungen an ein Urheberrecht für die Informationsgesellschaft“ [Changing Copyright – Controversies about and Challenges for Copyright for the Information Society], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the Rotary Club Hamburg-Lombardsbrücke on 20 May 2009.
„Urheberrecht und E-Learning - Möglichkeiten zustimmungsfreier Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützten Materials" [Copyright and E-Learning - Opportunities for Consent-Free Usage of Materials Protected by Copyright], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the workshop "Urheberrecht, Lehre und Neue Medien" [Copyright, Teaching and New Media] of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg on 15 May 2009 (pdf-file German).
„Rechtsfragen bei E-Learning – Sinn und Unsinn von "1. und 2. Korb" aus Sicht von Wissenschaft und Bildung" [Legal Questions regarding E-Learning – Sense and Nonsense of the "1. and 2. Korb" from the Viewpoint of Research and Education], keynote by T. Kreutzer at the 13th workshop of the CBT-AG of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie e.V. [German Society for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemology] in Hanover on 14 May 2009.
„Herkunft, Status und Zukunft (?) des Urheberrechts - Erkenntnisse aus der Untersuchung „Das Modell des deutschen Urheberrechts und Regelungsalternativen“ [Origin, Status and Future (?) of Copyright - Findings from the Study 'The German Copyright Model and Regulation Alternatives'], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the impulse workshop "Tendenzen der Wissensgesellschaft" [Tendencies of the Knowledge-based Society] of the Goethe Institute in Munich on 13 May 2009.
„Rechtliche Aspekte beim Umgang mit Gebärdensprachinhalten“ [Legal Aspects of Handling Sign Language Content], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the public presentation of the „Langzeitvorhaben Wörterbuch Deutsche Gebärdensprache – Deutsch“ [Longterm Project Dictionary of German Sign Language - German] at the Akadamie der Wissenschaften [Academy of Sciences] in Hamburg on 9 May 2009.
„Es kann nur besser werden! Regelungsalternativen zum geltenden Urheberrecht“ [Things can only get better! Regulation Alternatives for effective Copyright Law], lecture by T. Kreutzer at the re:publica 09 in Berlin on 3 April 2009 (pdf-file).
„Copyright in the Digital Domain“, workshop by T. Kreutzer at the Club Transmediale in Berlin on 28 January 2009.
Contact
Till Kreutzer, Ph. D
- i.e. - Büro für informationsrechtliche Expertise
Böhmersweg 24
D - 20148 Hamburg
Tel. +49 (0)40 22 94 85 60
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