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Henrik Armah is a shareholder in the M&A/Corporate group of Greenberg Traurig's German office. He advises international and domestic clients on M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate transformations and on all general matters of corporate law. He specializes in cross border transactions (buy side and sell side). His clients include industry players as well as private equity, venture capital and strategic investors. Henrik is an expert with particular experience in the technology,...
Bettina Backes studied at the University of Bonn. This was followed by a long-term period of employment in the publishing industry and the intensification of her specialization in a law firm focused on media law and several years as a partner in a trans-regional and internationally-oriented commercial law firm in Stuttgart. Alongside her voluntary involvement in various cultural and educational institutions, she is a (deputy) judge at the Constitutional Court of Baden-Württemberg and mem...
Ralf-Michael Burkhardt, as an expert in the protection of intellectual property, specialises in providing legal advice in the areas of food law and press and media law. He has extensive experience in handling court proceedings. For many years he practicised in the firm of a lawyer admitted to the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe.
Christoph Enaux is a partner with Greenberg Traurig Germany. LLP. He chairs the German Telecommunications Sector Group as well as the German Regulatory and Competition Practice Group of Greenberg Traurig. Christoph focuses on advising domestic and international clients in the areas of German and EU telecommunications and media regulation and competition law. He advises on commercial and regulatory aspects of new business models as well as on regulatory, merger control and antitrust proceeding...
Silke Freund focuses on the contentious – sometimes cross-border – enforcement of trade marks or the defense against asserted infringement claims of third parties. She also supports clients in their worldwide trade mark portfolio management in the filing, assignment, and licencing of trade marks as well as opposition, appeal, and cancellation proceedings before the German Patent and Trade Mark Office (GPTO) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). Silke Freund ...
Gudrun Hausner is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Munich office. As a member of the practice group IP/IT/Media, her area of activity comprises in particular data protection law, IT law and competition law. She advises national and international clients mainly in the area of IT contract law - particularly for software development and customisation contracts - on questions regarding outsourcing, cross-border data transfer and e-commerce. Gudrun Hausner represents clients in judicial proceedings a...
Founding partner of TCI Rechtsanwälte München Partner at Baker & McKenzie in Munich (2002 – 2007) Associate at Baker & McKenzie in Frankfurt a.M., Dallas/Texas and Munich (1997 – 2002) Dr.jur. University of Regensburg Bar admission 1995 Law clerkship in Regensburg University of Regensburg Law School
Dr Thomas Höppner is a Partner at Hausfeld, specializing in EU and German competition law and intellectual property law. His practice covers the full range of contentious and non-contentious competition law matters, including related regulatory areas such as media, telecommunications, broadcasting and energy. He has spearheaded complaints before the European Commission and taken competition claims before German courts, particularly in the context of an abuse of dominance and damage claim...
Christian was born in Hamburg in 1963. After his first state examination at the University of Hamburg he spent his legal clerkship, among others, with the Federal Cartel Office in Berlin, the Higher Regional Court of Hamburg, a law firm in Los Angeles and the German American Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. In 1993, he received his doctorate at the University of Hamburg (PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst-Joachim Mestmäcker, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Pri...
Dr Andreas Lober is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Frankfurt office and a member of the IP/IT/Media practice group. He advises national and international companies in the media and technology sector (in particular Internet, mobile applications and interactive entertainment) as well as investors with respect to copyright, law of unfair commercial practices, trademark law, protection of minors, data protection, and personality rights. He focuses his practice on negotiating development and licenc...
Stefan Lütje is partner and chairs the Media Sector Group in Germany. The team was voted "Best Media Law Firm" by the well-known legal publishing house JUVE in 2010, has since been nominated many times, and is regularly recognized in all the important legal directories such as The Legal 500, Chambers & Partners and JUVE for their expertise and high-quality work. As an expert in the media and technology industry, Stefan has advised national and international industry players for more ...
K. Peter Mailänder studied at the universities of Tübingen, where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.), Munich, New York and Washington D.C. Additionally, he worked as Assistant at the Institute for European Economic Law in Munich. He is a member of diverse boards of corporations and foundations, also of the Media Control Commission KEK, and an honorary professor of the University of Hohenheim.
Peter Mailänder studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Bonn, Hamburg, where he also obtained his doctorate (Dr. jur.), and at New York University. He has been admitted to the bar in New York (Attorney-at-Law) since 1994 and admitted to the bar as an attorney in Germany since 1997. He is currently a member of boards of foundations and supervisory boards and a lecturer on various corporate law topics.
As one of Germany’s leading copyright lawyers, Jan Bernd Nordemann represents national and international clients before the courts, provides expert legal opinions on copyright issues and drafts and negotiates copyright agreements. He also provides policy consultancy in relation to the development of copyright law, advises associations and political parties. In addition, Jan has been engaged on a number of occasions as an expert witness on German law in US court proceedings. He also has ...
Dr. Severin Riemenschneider advises companies and private individuals primarily on press , media , copyright , competition and trademark law, as well as on issues relating to the protection of (corporate) personality rights. He specializes in crisis communication and reputation management. ADr. Severin Riemenschneider , LL.M. Eur. has been a specialist attorney for media and copyright law since 2016. He has also been a member of the NetzDG review committee since 2021. In addition to his work ...
Attorney at Law admitted in Düsseldorf (1st instance and Court of Appeal), Germany, born August 21, 1958, Recklinghausen, Germany, Citizen of the Federal Republic of Germany Education and Former Activities : 1989 – 2000 with Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Attorneys at Law, Certified Public Accountants, Düsseldorf, Germany and Brussels, Belgium; 2000 – 2003 Partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Veltins Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Düsseldorf; since 01/2004: Partne...
Dr Marc-Oliver Srocke is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT's Hamburg office and member of the IP/IT/Media practice group. He advises and represents publishers and media companies (print and online publishers, radio and TV stations), in particular in the fields of press law, copyright and publishing law and industrial property rights.
Benjamin has studied law in Munich and Münster and completed his legal traineeship in Berlin. Before he was co-founding the law firm VON ALLWÖRDEN, Benjamin has worked several years in a national and international operating commercial law firm in Berlin. He is specialized in advising on complex media law cases, contract design and civil litigation.
Philipp von Mettenheim completed his legal training in Heidelberg, Munich, Potsdam and London. He specializes in the areas of media law, in particular press and copyright law, and competition law. Another focus of his work is labour law. Philipp von Mettenheim teaches press and copyright law at the Academy at the German Armed Forces Information Centre in Strausberg. He is author of numerous publications and is a regular speaker at specialist lectures. He is one of the leading names in media l...
Georg von Wallis chairs the firm’s German Tax Group. For more than 25 years, Georg has been advising clients on all tax aspects of finance and corporate transactions, in particular in cross-border situations in the media as well as the real estate sectors. Georg has wide-ranging experience handling tax litigation, VAT and other indirect taxes. He represents national and international financial institutions, major media and entertainment companies, private equity and venture capital funds.
Dr. Marcus von Welser was admitted to the bar in 2002 and was certified as an attorney specialized in intellectual property law in 2008. He advises and represents clients in all areas of intellectual property law, in particular copyright, trademark and competition law. He also has extensive experience in litigation and in negotiating contracts. His focus lies on judicial and out-of-court enforcement of intellectual property rights. He has long-time litigation experience before numerous distri...
Dr Holger Weimann is Partner at BEITEN BURKHARDT’s Munich office and member of the IP/IT/Media practice group. He advises companies of the media and technology sector (broadcasting, internet, print and music publishing, movie and television production, advertising and public relations agencies) on copyright (content, collecting societies), personal rights and law of unfair commercial practices. The main focus of his activity comprises the negotiation of licence agreements, advertising l...
Media Law Definition
'Media Law' refers to private, administrative and even criminal law on information and communication through all kinds of media.
Typical media law cases relate to the tension between the freedom of press and expression on the one hand and the personality rights of those who are affected by publications in press, radio, television or Internet on the other. The freedom of information and right to report - the press law - is the core area of the media law. Many cases are dealing with the balancing of conflicting rights of the media and the rights of prominent personalities from the entertainment industry, Royal houses, politics or business. In practice, even more cases deal with the violation of rights of ordinary citizens or businesses by publications of others on social media platforms, blogs or the like. It is a typical media law question, if and when those affected by publications in the internet, in the press or other media may seek injunctive relief, are entitled to compensation, to public counterstatement, to correction, or to rectification, or to what extent citizens or companies must tolerate the expression of public opinion or statements of facts.
However, media law concerns far more than just typical cases of the press law and the right to privacy. It also covers administrative and regulatory issues in the field of media services, telecommunication services and telecommunications services, their admission and supervision by public authorities, as well as constitutional privileges of media against search and seizure measures by law enforcement agencies or other authorities.
Media law is also closely linked to copyright and competition law. It overlaps with copyright law particularly in cases of production and licensing of audiovisual content or the infringement of copyright by media, where the activities of publishing companies are concerned or those of collecting societies (in Germany particularly those of the GEMA, the "German society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights").
References to competition law exist in cases concerning the admissibility of advertising by or in media, particularly in cases of disputes concerning the so-called principle of the separation, which is considered one of the primary principles of media law particularly in European countries such as Germany. It provides that advertising must be separated from editorial content. Hence, the admissibility of product placement as well as other issues of financing of media content are part of the area of media law too.
Close links of media law further exist to trademark law, in particular where it comes to the protection or infringement of rights at work titles, i.e., names or special designations of printed publications, cinematic works, music works, stage works or other comparable works.
Finally, media law is also connected to IT law, particularly in internet related cases concerning linking or framing, but also in cases dealing with data protection issues and the right to privacy.
Overall, media law is a broad field of law which continues to be challenging, particularly in the light of new technological developments and a fast-changing media industry.
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