{"id":31986,"date":"2026-11-06T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/the-best-of-itm\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T13:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T12:19:38","slug":"the-best-of-itm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/the-best-of-itm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best of ITM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Best of ITM: A Discussion of Dissertations<\/p>\n<p>Which academic theses still hold up years later? The \u201cBest of ITM\u201d seminar at the University of M\u00fcnster addressed this question. Students examined selected dissertations from the ITM and reevaluated their arguments in light of new technical developments and legal issues. Interviews with the authors complemented the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>The range of topics spanned AI liability, data protection, text and data mining, digital estates, sports broadcasting rights, and influencer marketing. The focus was on independent evaluation: Where have earlier approaches proven effective, and where do new developments require different answers?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261106_124600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261106_124600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261106_124600-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261106_124600-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261106_124600-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/20261106_124600-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of ITM: A Discussion of Dissertations Which academic theses still hold up years later? The \u201cBest of ITM\u201d seminar at the University of M\u00fcnster addressed this question. Students examined selected dissertations from the ITM and reevaluated their arguments in light of new technical developments and legal issues. Interviews with the authors complemented the discussion. [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069,1067],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements-en","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31991,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31986\/revisions\/31991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}