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Launch of the IMKR Lecture Series

The IMKR is launching a lecture series with three renowned legal scholars in the summer semester 2016.


The Institute for Media and Communications Law (IMKR) at the University of Siegen has launched a new lecture series. In the summer semester 2016, three renowned legal scholars will give lectures.

The first lecture will be given by Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner on April 20, 2016, at 6:15 p.m. in Room US-D 321 on the topic of linking. See the opinion of Advocate General Wathelet of April 7, 2016, according to which posting a hyperlink to a website on which photos were published without the copyright holder’s consent does not constitute copyright infringement (Case C-160/15, ECJ press release (PDF) and opinion on EUR-Lex).

Update: A report on the first lecture can be found in the news item from April 20, 2016.

Plakat der IMKR-Vortragsreihe im Sommersemester 2016 mit den Vorträgen von Prof. Leistner, Prof. Heinze und Prof. Obergfell