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Dr. Gregor Schmid, LL.M. (Cambridge)
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Gregor is a lawyer for technology and media with a focus on data protection, artificial Intelligence, copyright, media, IT law and e-commerce. He regularly advises on negotiations and transactions, financing and joint ventures as well as on regulatory aspects of the digital business. His clients include technology start-ups, ISPs, games, film and television companies as well as financial institutions and investors.

Gregor is also an experienced litigator in complex business disputes. The distinguished legal expert is an award-winning and recommended lawyer in the fields of technology and data protection.

Gregor is Local Manager of Taylor Wessing's Berlin office.

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CV

Since 2021 Lecturer at University of Alicante on the Law of Digital Transformation
2011 - 2020 Lecturer Media Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2012 Lecturer, MHMK Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation, München
2003 Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht (today: Innovation und Wettbewerb)
1999 – 2006 Managing Associate, Linklaters LLP, in the area of IP/IT/Media & Entertainment
1997 – 1999 Research assistant, Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht (today: Innovation und Wettbewerb)
2003 Admitted as a lawyer, Berlin
1999 Doctoral degree (Prof. Gerhard Schricker), Dissertation on a theme of competition and European law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
1997 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich
1996 Second state examination, Munich
1994 LL.M., University of Cambridge, England
1993 First state examination, Munich
1988 – 1993 Degree studies in law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Career

Since 2021 Lecturer at University of Alicante on the Law of Digital Transformation
2011 - 2020 Lecturer Media Law, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Since 2006 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2012 Lecturer, MHMK Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation, München
2003 Research Fellow, Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht (today: Innovation und Wettbewerb)
1999 – 2006 Managing Associate, Linklaters LLP, in the area of IP/IT/Media & Entertainment
1997 – 1999 Research assistant, Max-Planck-Institut für Patent-, Urheber- und Wettbewerbsrecht (today: Innovation und Wettbewerb)

Education

2003 Admitted as a lawyer, Berlin
1999 Doctoral degree (Prof. Gerhard Schricker), Dissertation on a theme of competition and European law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
1997 Admitted as a lawyer, Munich
1996 Second state examination, Munich
1994 LL.M., University of Cambridge, England
1993 First state examination, Munich
1988 – 1993 Degree studies in law, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich

Publications

The final GPAI Code of Practice: Key insights, unresolved questions, and parallel regulatory tracks, News Alert 11.7.2025

The DSA, the EMFA and the AI content conundrum, Gregor Schmid, Nathalie Koch and Alexander Schmalenberger look at the legal implications of the European Media Freedom Act for AI-assisted journalism, TW Interface July 2025

Access to audiovisual media services under the European Accessibility Act. Gregor Schmid, Nathalie Koch and Caroline Bunz look at what the EAA means for media services, with a focus on German implementation, TW Interface July 2025

GPAI Code of Practice - Third Draft: Changes to the requirements for copyright compliance, March 2025

New decision of the German Federal Court of Justice: Birkenstock sandals are not art, February 2025

EU Copyright – worldwide? On the extraterritorial effect of the copyright related rules of the AI Act, KIR 2025, 69

New decision of the German Federal Court of Justice: Birkenstock sandals are not art

GPAI Code of Practice - Third Draft: Changes to the requirements for copyright compliance

The European Media Freedom Act, MMR 2024, 843, beck-online

The European Media Freedom Act - the EU's new approach to protecting media plurality and independent journalism, in: Interface, July 2024

AI, the Artificial Intelligence Act & Copyright, May 2024

Richtlinien und Guidelines für Let’s Plays, Urheberrecht und UrhDaG, in: MMR 2023, 638

Generative AI in gaming: immense potential... with some unanswered legal questions in: Interface, July 2023

The European Media Freedom Act: a pan European media law? in: Interface, June 2023

Digital Services Act – Zahl der „aktiven Nutzer“, „Dark Patterns“ und weitere aktuelle Fragestellungen nach Inkrafttreten des DSA, MMR-Aktuell 2023, 455779, beck-online

Urheberrecht für Games, in: Games und Recht, 2022

„Sein Auto, sein Entwurf“ – Wem gehört der Porsche 911? Anmerkung zu BGH, Urteil vom 7.4.2022, Gregor Schmid / Timm Düwel, ZUM 2022, 561

„Käfer-Lächeln“ und „Ei-Form“: Der VW-Käfer und das Urheberrecht., Anmerkung zu OLG Braunschweig, Urteil vom 10.3.2022, Timm Düwel / Gregor Schmid, ZUM-RD 2022, 377

Lizenzen/Nutzungsrechte, in: Digital Escrow - Rechtsschutz durch Hinterlegung digitaler Wirtschaftsgüter, 2022

Insolvenzfestigkeit von Nutzungsrechten, in: Digital Escrow - Rechtsschutz durch Hinterlegung digitaler Wirtschaftsgüter, 2022

Datenschutz , in: Digital Escrow - Rechtsschutz durch Hinterlegung digitaler Wirtschaftsgüter, 2022

Digital Services Act: Neues „Grundgesetz für Onlinedienste“? Auswirkungen des Kommissionsentwurfs für die Digitalwirtschaft, Gregor Schmid / Max Grewe, MMR 2021, S. 279, beck-online

Reale Gebäude und Gegenstände in Computerspielen. Reichstag, Humvees und Fußballtrikots – Nutzung ohne Lizenzen möglich? Gregor Schmid / Tim Düwel, MMR 2020, S. 155, beck-online

Einordnung eines Livestreams als Rundfunk – Anmerkung zum Urteil des VG Berlin vom 26.9.2019, MMR 2020, 271

Digital Services Act und Digital Markets Act: (Nicht nur) die e-Commerce-Richtlinie auf dem Prüfstand

Update Urheberrecht im Digitalen Binnenmarkt: Zur Implementierung der DSM-Urheberrechts-Richtlinie in Deutschland

Game Subsidies in Germany – Recent Developments, Interface, Ausgabe #24, August 2019

Neue Vertriebsstrukturen mit digitalem Content am Beispiel von E-Books, in: DGRI Jahrbuch 2014, S. 173 - 192

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Awards

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TOP lawyer 2026 for Copyright and Media law

WirschaftsWoche Ranking 2025

Top law firm/ Top lawyer for copyright law

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Lawyer of the year: Entertainment Law

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Best lawyers: Intellectual property law

Best lawyers: Media law

Best lawyers: IT law

Gregor Schmid has extensive experience at the interface between e-commerce, copyright and data protection and provides support in licence negotiations and transactions in the digital space.

Recognition as one of the top 3 copy right lawyers in Germany

Leading individual for media: entertainment

Top law firm/ Top lawyer for copyright law

Frequently recommended lawyer for media law

Leading individual: Gaming Law

Leading individual: Media Law

Leading individual: Information Technology Law

Leading individual: Intellectual Property Law

Recommended Lawyer for data protection

Ranked Lawyer for TMT: Media

Leading individual for media

Recommended lawyer for Data Privacy & Protection

Recommended lawyer for Information Technology

Experience

Advised the lead investor syndicate on a EUR 100 million Series C financing of the German fintech Upvest

Upvest is a provider of an app-based investment structure.

Dr. Gregor Schmid, LL.M. (Cambridge)

Taylor Wessing advises encentive on seed financing

The start-up encentive has raised 2.7 million euros in fresh capital in a seed financing round for its AI-based industrial solution for optimised energy management.

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Bertelsmann Investments acquires pharma tech company EXTEDO with Taylor Wessing

Bertelsmann Investments acquires the pharmaceutical technology company EXTEDO for a double-digit million amount.

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Dr. Gregor Schmid, LL.M. (Cambridge)

Taylor Wessing advises General Catalyst on USD 223 million Series B financing in AI defence company Helsing

German AI defence company Helsing raises USD 223 (EUR 209) million in capital in a Series B funding round.

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Acquisition of Kolibri Games by Ubisoft

One of the premier developers of mobile free-to-play games and one of the leaders of the “idle” games genre, on its 75% acquisition by Ubisoft.

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Wooga sale to Playtika

Wooga, the Berlin-based casual games developer, on its sale to Israeli mobile games company, Playtika Ltd.

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ECJ rules on copyright and designs: No higher requirements for copyright protection of everyday objects

5 December 2025

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Interface - Predictions 2026

Copyright in 2026: clarification, review and reform

Gregor Schmid and Louise Popple look at what to expect in the evolution of copyright law in the EU and UK during 2026.

2 December 2025

by Dr. Gregor Schmid, LL.M. (Cambridge) and Louise Popple

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The EU's high-stakes bet on taming deepfakes

Gregor Schmid, Caroline Bunz, Jakob Horn and Alexander Schmalenberger look at the EU's efforts to address deepfakes under Article 35 DSA and Article 50 EU AI Act.

13 November 2025

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