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Dr. Marten Tiessen
Dr. Marten Tiessen

Dr. Marten Tiessen

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Marten is a member of our Practice Area Technology, Media & Communications. He advises national and international IT and media companies on all issues relating to copyright and media law. One of his main areas of expertise is provider liability for infringing content on the Internet.

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Copyright & media law

Sectors

Technology, media & communications

CV

Since 2025 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2021 Research assistant, Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law
2022 Admitted to the Bar
2017 Second state examination
2014 - 2016 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm with stations at the German Embassy in Lima, a major international law firm in Düsseldorf and a start-up company in Toronto
2014 First legal state examination, Münster
2007 - 2013 Legal studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Career

Since 2025 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2022 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2021 Research assistant, Institute for Information, Telecommunication and Media Law

Education

2022 Admitted to the Bar
2017 Second state examination
2014 - 2016 Legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm with stations at the German Embassy in Lima, a major international law firm in Düsseldorf and a start-up company in Toronto
2014 First legal state examination, Münster
2007 - 2013 Legal studies at the Georg-August University of Göttingen, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Bogotá and the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Publications

Schutz und Schranken des Wissenschaftsurheberrechts – Eine rechtsökonomische Analyse, Studien zu Eigentum und Urheberrecht, Band 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2024

Urheberrechtlicher Schutz gegen Framing, Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urteil vom 9.3.2021 – C-392/19, IWRZ 2021, S. 122–125.

FRAND-Einwand des Herstellers und seiner Zulieferer, Anmerkung zu LG Mannheim, Urteil vom 18.8.2020 – 2 O 34/19, IWRZ 2021, S. 31–33 (gemeinsam mit Aurelia Merbecks)

Urheberrechtlicher Schutz technisch-funktionaler Gegenstände, Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urteil vom 11.6.2020 – C-833/18, IWRZ 2020, S. 271–273.

Anwendbarkeit urheberrechtlicher Vorschriften auf Verstoß gegen Lizenzvertrag, Anmerkung zu EuGH, Urteil vom 18.12.2019 – C-666/18, IWRZ 2020, S. 76–78.

Der Kampf gegen das kulturelle Vergessen, Eine kritische Betrachtung der Art. 8-11 DSM-RL zu vergriffenen Werken, IWRZ 2020, S. 3–8 (gemeinsam mit Nico Gielen)

Die neue Plattformhaftung nach der Richtlinie über das Urheberrecht im digitalen Binnenmarkt, EuZW 2019, S. 639–646 (gemeinsam mit Nico Gielen)


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