Dr. Johanna Götz

Johanna has been a member of our Technology, Media & Telecoms Practice Area for eight years. She mainly advises and represents Internet intermediaries such as search engine providers, access, hosting and content providers in media, copyright and data protection law with a focus on liability issues and regulatory requirements. She is litigator with experiences before national courts in all instances as well as the ECJ.

Since November 2021, Johanna has been co-chair of the DGRI’s expert committee “Social Media and Intermediaries on the Internet”. She regularly publishes and lectures on media, data protection and press law topics.

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Since 2020 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2015 – 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2020 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2015 – 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2015 Established as a lawyer, Hamburg

2014 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg

2014 Second state examination, Hamburg

Publications

Ein Minenfeld für Anbieter sozialer Netzwerke – Zwischen NetzDG, Verfassungsrecht und Vertragsfreiheit, in: Kommunikation & Recht, 05/2020, gemeinsam mit Dr. Britta Heymann

Enforcing the German Network Enforcement Act, 10/2019

Die Macht der Daten und der Algorithmen, Beitrag: Ein Minenfeld für soziale Netzwerke – Zwischen NetzDG, Verfassungsrecht und Vertragsfreiheit, in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie, 2019

Germany's Network Enforcement Act and its impact on social networks, 08/2018

Recht 4.0 – Innovationen aus den rechtswissenschaftlichen Laboren, Automatisiert, automatisierter, hochautomatisiert – Fahren bald alle Level 5?, in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2017

Entscheidungsbesprechung zu OLG Köln, Urt. v. 23.12.2016 - 6 U 119/16: Verantwortlichkeit für irreführende Informationen auf Internetseiten Dritter, in: MMR-Aktuell 2017, 388858

Zur Verpflichtung, falsche Informationen auf Internetseiten Dritter zu berichtigen, in: IPRB 2017

Smart World – Smart Law? – Weltweite Netze mit regionaler Regulierung, Ich packe meinen Koffer und nehme mit… meine Online-Inhalte, in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2016

Internet der Dinge – Digitalisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Hello Barbie! We kids dislike you – unknowingly., in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2015

Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger, Frankfurt am Main 2013

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Technology, media & communications

Online intermediaries and illegal content under the Digital Services Act

19 September 2022

by Dr. Johanna Götz

Interface - Regulating the internet

Enforcing the German Network Enforcement Act

A little over a year ago, we discussed the impact of the German Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act, or NetzDG) which came into force on 1 October 2017, and its impact on freedom of speech on social networks. On its two year anniversary, we ask: does it work?

1 October 2019

by Dr. Johanna Götz

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Download - the future of media

6 August 2018

by multiple authors

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