englischWhether it is Keanu Reeves’ performance as an ambitious young lawyer in The Devil's Advocate (1997), or the depiction of a fighter pilot’s fate in court in the German TV film Terror – Ihr Urteil (2016): law-related narratives have always been a popular motif in film. What is at the source of [...]

englischStreet photography shows the life of people in public space, unadulterated and authentic. However, this genre is in constant conflict with the personal rights of the people depicted. This topic has become particularly virulent because the production and publication of photographs have [...]

englischDigital images raise ethical issues that have so far received only little attention. The discrete pixels of digital images can be freely combined. Compared to the dissemination of analog images the net enables dis-proportionately greater control over how digital images are to be distributed. [...]

englischIn the current debate on gender-appropriate and non-discriminatory commercial communication, this study takes a comparative legal look at the different legal and self-regulatory instruments of the European advertising regulation systems. With the inclusion of social science, cognitive [...]

englisch„Deutsche Arbeiter! Die SPD will euch eure Villen im Tessin wegnehmen“

In his posters, the artist and lawyer Klaus Staeck commented on the political events of the late FRG. He continues to confront his audience with major social issues such as gender equality, climate protection, and peace [...]

Hat die Digitalisierung, die Recht und Technik gleichermaßen verändert, einen Reformbedarf des Kunsturhebergesetzes ausgelöst? Diese Frage untersucht die vorliegende Arbeit und legt dabei die folgenden drei Thesen zugrunde: Erstens ist das Kunsturhebergesetz trotz Kollision mit der [...]

englischThe protection of personal data based on Art. 4 No. 1 GDPR can be extended to the protection of diverse context-specific personal identities. As the cultural, economic and social identity can be realised simultaneously, they need the same protection in the online-context as already exists in [...]

englischMore than 50 years after the implementation of the protection of simple photographs to avoid difficulties in distinguishing between protectable and non-protectable photographies, the possibilities of taking photographies have changed significantly. Thus, the question of which products are [...]

englischThe term appropriation refers to various forms of reproducing copyrighted works. Already in the 1970s, artists of Appropriation Art used copies for their works of art. With digitalization and the culture of participation in the Internet, the techniques of Appropriation Art were democratized [...]

englischPhilosophical aesthetics is not exclusively concerned with questions of art, but more generally with problems of form-giving and perceptual mediation. In law, these questions are often considered in the context of methodology, but the evaluative and affective transformation of perceptions is [...]