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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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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 |
| 2012 | Doctoral degree on a theme of ancillary copyright law for the press, Universität zu Köln |
| 2012 – 2014 | Legal clerkship, Hamburg |
| 2010 | First state examination, Köln |
| 2005 – 2010 | Degree, Law, Universität zu Köln |
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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