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Büchner, T. (2011): Schwerpunktbereich Recht des geistigen Eigentums: Preview (german). In: Jura 2011, issue 1, pp. 72-75
Dr. Thomas Büchner
2011
Unlike its citizens, the state cannot lean on the basic right of free speech when it comes to its communciation. In his PhD project, Tobias Mast exmaines the legal requirements of the state’s communication with its citizens.
In which cases is a WiFi provider liable for illegal downloads made by a third party using its internet access? Is YouTube to be held responsible for uploads infringing the copyright? Such questions cannot be answered conclusively by the written law and are a solved by the construction of interferen...
Every app, every website, every search query uses algorithms. In his PhD project, Felix Krupar analyses the legal classification of algorithmic communication.
Regulation designed primarily for linear media such as traditional scheduled television services has not adequately kept pace with the growth of non-linear media and the Internet. Even though traditional linear media may still be strong and even in the dominant role regarding overall media consumpti...
Increasing technical convergence presents media regulation with new challenges and calls into question traditional media law. The report by Winfried Kluth and Wolfgang Schulz gives an overview of problem areas and provides possible solutions, as commissioned by the German states and as a preparation...
Matthias C. Kettemann writes about the normative change on the Internet in his curent article on the blog of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG). Recently, Daniel Lambach argued here that cyberspace was not right now “in danger of breaking apart”...
Our PhD student Amélie Heldt is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. She wrote a guest article on EU copyright reform for the blog of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). "On March 26, 2019, the European Union (EU) Parliament voted...
Heldt, A. (2019): Good Ends, Bad Means? The EU’s Struggle To Protect Copyright and Freedom of Speech. In: cfr.org - Website des Council on Foreign Relations.16 April 2019.
Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube and Twitter are increasingly becoming a vehicle for the strategic use of information by states (so-called dis/information operations). These platforms, which are conceptually defined as 'social media', provide their users with a wide range of opportunities to obt...
Heldt, A. (2018): Zensur durch Upload-Filter: Zur umstrittenen EU-Reform des Urheberrechts [Censorship by Upload Filters: On the Controversial EU Reform of the Copyright Law]. In: Verfassungsblog, Website, 25 June 2018 (online).
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