Artificial intelligence, law and philosophy Yesterday I had a very exciting interview with my colleague Professor Dr. Holger Lyre (University of Magdeburg) about the possibilities and limits of AI. The famous philosopher of science spoke in detail about the dangers of deep learning and large language models. The interview can be seen on YouTube at
Category Archives: Reports
07
May
May
On 6.5.25, Professor Dr. Said Gulyamov, Head of the Cyber Law Department at Tashkent State University of Law, delivered a compelling lecture on the legal implications of the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) as part of the LDE (Law of the digital economy) series. The lecture focused on how the DMA aims to regulate powerful […]
28
Apr
Apr
Am vergangenen Freitag fand das „Competition Law Doctoral Forum“ von Prof. Thibault Schrepel an der VU Amsterdam statt. Neben vielen wertvollen Gesprächen und dem Austausch über die wettbewerbsrechtlichen Promotionsvorhaben von Forschenden in den Niederlanden, hat vor allem der Vortrag von Martijn Snoep, dem Präsidenten der niederländischen Wettbewerbsbehörde, besonders gut gefallen. Herr Snoep hat viele spannende […]
11
Apr
Apr
That was a really exciting visit. Together with my students from the copyright law course, I visited Manz Verlag in Vienna. Managing Director Dr. Pichler and his staff gave us an introduction to the changes in copyright law that await publishers in the age of AI. His employees gave us a detailed and exciting explanation […]
31
Mar
Mar
We continue! After developing and expanding the legal mentor at ChatGPT, we are now moving on to trainee lawyer training. We have created a new bot for prosecutor file processing. Many thanks to Ref. Stefanie Peters for her help. Since my experience as a public prosecutor is more than 30 years old, I would be […]
01
Mar
Mar
We’re done !!! I have now dedicated myself to the further development of the new AI project. After extensive brainstorming and numerous considerations (also by the tireless ITM employee Merlin Rombach – thank you, thank you, thank you), I can now present the first iteration of the RechtsMentor – ITM GPT (link below). In my […]
22
Feb
Feb
Yesterday, a large audience attended the event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Intellectual Property Research Center at the University of Münster. The keynote speaker was former ITM doctoral candidate and former presiding judge at the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court, Professor Dr. Thomas Kühnen, who gave a fascinating presentation on the relationship between antitrust law […]
06
Feb
Feb
On Monday, attorney Lars Rieck (Hamburg) successfully defended his dissertation on the subject of “Tattooing and copyright law”. The examination took place at Chemnitz University of Technology under the chairmanship of Professor Dr. Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl and Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren and consisted of a disputation and two short presentations in which he convincingly presented his […]
10
Jan
Jan
BGH decides on the copyright permissibility of the use of images of a photo wallpaper. Thomas Hoeren writes in his comment on the ruling of the BGH that the decision is one of the most beautiful rulings of the BGH in matters of copyright contract law. The distinction between contract law on the granting of […]
27
Nov
Nov
New faces will be moving into the ITM building in the summer semester of 2025. Following the retirement of Professor Dr. Bernd Holznagel, we were able to use our existing good contacts with the Institute for Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics to intensify our cooperation, especially in terms of space. Professor […]
