Dr Lina Böcker is a specialist lawyer for IT law and a partner at Osborne Clarke Germany. For more than ten years, she has been advising a wide range of clients in the field of open source software compliance, artificial intelligence, licensing law and general IT law issues.
Prof. Dr. Franziska Boehm is Head of Division at the Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, FIZ Karlsruhe, and Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on data protection and intellectual property law with reference to EU data law, AI regulation and data ethics.
Thomas Dreier, Dr. iur., M.C.J. (New York University), is Professor Emeritus of Law and Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, where he was Director of the Institute for Information and Business Law. He is also Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He studied law and art history in Bonn, Geneva, Munich and New York.
Prof. Dr. Ellen Euler, LL.M. studied law and obtained her doctorate under Prof. Dreier, where she was responsible as National Project Lead for the adaptation of licence version 1.0 to German law from 2004 to 2006. She is Dean of the Department of Information Sciences and Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, where she heads the Brandenburg Open Access initiative and projects on open science transformation.
Thomas Hartmann, LL.M. (Information Law and Legal Information) has been working on legal issues in e-science since 2009, including at Humboldt University in Berlin and at FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure. Long-standing lecturer, speaker on professional development and member of science policy committees. Specialist publications on copyright, licence agreement and data protection law, as well as research data law.
Dr. Till Jaeger has been a partner at the law firm JBB Rechtsanwälte since 2001 and is co-founder of the Institute for Legal Issues of Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS). He was involved in porting CC licences in version 2.0 to German law and has represented authors in court in the enforcement of free licences.
Dr Lisa Käde is a solicitor and business IT specialist at JBB Rechtsanwälte in Berlin. Her legal practice focuses on issues relating to artificial intelligence and open source software. She advises on copyright issues as well as the implications of the new AI Regulation and the resulting field of AI compliance.
Prof. Dr. Paul Klimpel, M.A. studied law and philosophy in Bonn and Munich. From 2002 to 2011, he worked at the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek, most recently as administrative director. He is a partner at iRights.law, chapter lead at Creative Commons Germany, heads the conference series "Zugang gestalten!" (Shaping Access) and is an honorary professor at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Dr. iur. Till Kreutzer is a partner at iRights.Law, publicist and co-founder of iRights.info. He is a member of the "Communication and Information" expert committee of the German UNESCO Commission (DUK), an associate member of the Hans Bredow Institute, a member of the Institute for Legal Issues of Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS) and a representative on the Creative Commons Global Network Council.
Anna Kubiessa is a research assistant at Osborne Clarke Germany in IT law and a doctoral candidate at the University of Trier. She works and conducts research in the field of artificial intelligence, data protection, copyright law and general legal issues relating to digitalisation.
Prof. Dr. Anne Lauber-Rönsberg, LL.M. (Edinburgh) is holder of the professorship for civil law, intellectual property law, media and data protection law at the Technical University of Dresden. Her research focuses on copyright law, freedom of expression and data protection law, and the regulation of artificial intelligence. She is the programme director of the LL.M. programme "International Studies in Intellectual Property and Data Law". She has dealt with open content licences in various research projects and publications, particularly in connection with research data management.
Dr. jur. Reto Mantz, Dipl.-Inf. is presiding judge at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court in a chamber that is responsible for copyright issues, among other things. From 2010 to 2012,he was a solicitor at an international law firm specialising in IT/IP/patent law. Since 2012, he has been working at the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court, where he was seconded to the Federal Court of Justice from 2021 to 2024.
Dr Saskia Ostendorff is a solicitor specialising in media and copyright law and General Counsel at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Doctorate from Humboldt University in Berlin. Member of the Non-Permanent Commission on Digital Issues of the German Women Lawyers Association and co-founder of the Open Legal Data initiative.
Dr. Dr. Grischka Petri is Head of the Copyright Department at FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure, private lecturer in art history and part of the team at the Legal Helpdesk for NFDI4Culture, the consortium for theatre and dance, media, music and art studies. In this role, he often deals with Creative Commons licences.
Fabian Rack, Mag. jur. is a research assistant at FIZ Karlsruhe - Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure and a solicitor at iRights.Law in Berlin. He is active in the German chapter of Creative Commons and was an editor at the law blog Telemedicus during his studies. He writes and produces music under the stage name "Inoti" as well as for other artists.
Felix Reda, M.A. was a Member of the European Parliament from 2014 to 2019. During this time, he was rapporteur for the European Parliament's Legal Affairs Committee on the evaluation of the InfoSoc Directive and shadow rapporteur for the DSM Directive. Since 2020, he has been a volunteer board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
Jan Schallaböck studied law with a specialisation in European and international law in Marburg and Berlin. Since the late 1990s, he has been involved in the social impact of digitalisation, for example as an observer at the UN World Summits on the Information Society (WSIS), as an employee of a data protection authority, the ULD, and as chair of a committee of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). Since 2015, he has been a partner at iRights.Law Lawyers.
Dr Hendrik Schöttle is a solicitor, specialist in IT law and partner in the Munich office of Osborne Clarke. Dr. Hendrik Schöttle has been advising on IT law for almost 20 years. He is a member of the board of the BITKOM Open Source Working Group. In 2023, he was named Lawyer of the Year for IT Law in Bavaria by Handelsblatt and Best Lawyers and has repeatedly been named one of the leading lawyers in IT law in relevant industry directories. The JUVE Handbook 2023/2024 recommends him as a "top name" in the field of open source.
John Weitzmann is a consultant at the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin, was previously in-house counsel at Wikimedia Germany, founding partner of iRights.law RAe and studied law with a focus on copyright and media law. From 2007 to 2018, he was also Legal Project Lead for Creative Commons in Germany and CC Regional Coordinator for Europe for several years.
Dr Julia Wildgans is a solicitor at GRÜNECKER Patent- und Rechtsanwälte in Munich. She advises on all aspects of German and European trademark and copyright law as well as IT law. In addition, she regularly leads workshops for researchers, universities, start-ups and companies on practical issues of IP and IT law.
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