Dr. Johanna Götz

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Johanna is a member of our Practice Area Technology, Media & Telecoms. She mainly advises internet intermediaries such as search engine providers, access, hosting and content providers on media, copyright and data protection law, with a focus on liability issues for (third-party) content on the internet and media regulatory requirements. Johanna is a highly experienced litigator in this area and represents her clients before German courts of general and administrative jurisdiction as well as before the ECJ and ECtHR.

Johanna is a specialist lawyer in copyright and media law. She received her doctorate on a copyright topic. Johanna regularly publishes and lectures on media, data protection and press law topics.

Johanna is a member of the board of the German Association of Law and Informatics and co-chairs the expert committee ‘Social Media and Intermediaries on the Internet’.

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Since 2025 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2020 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Carrière

Since 2025 Partner, Taylor Wessing

2020 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing

2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

Formation

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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Technologie, Médias et Communications (TMC)

Online intermediaries and illegal content under the Digital Services Act

19 septembre 2022

par 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 octobre 2019

par Dr. Johanna Götz

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Droit des marques et publicité

Download - the future of media

6 août 2018

par plusieurs auteurs

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Dr. Johanna Götz

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Legal 500 2026

Legal 500 2026

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Actualités et publications récentes

Online intermediaries and illegal content under the Digital Services Act

Dr. Johanna Götz

Legal 500 2026

Expertise

Services et Groupes

Secteurs

CV

Carrière

Formation

Publications

Langues étrangères

Prix et distinctions

Legal 500 2026

Legal 500 2026

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

The Best Lawyers™ in Germany 2025

Actualités et publications récentes

Online intermediaries and illegal content under the Digital Services Act

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