Composers, writers, authors, designers, painters, sculptors, directors, inventors, programmers - all of them and many others can be authors of a work. And they alone have the right to decide on the use and licensing of their work.

With our specialist lawyers in copyright and media law, we assist you, among other things, in drafting and concluding user and/or licence agreements or also in defending and enforcing your copyright, for example, by sending a copyright infringement warning notice and initiating preliminary injunction proceedings or filing an action for an injunction and subsequent representation.

Because imagine you had created something - written a book, composed a piece of music, invented something or written a computer program - and someone else makes all or part of it their own. Copyright prevents this from happening.

Even though we value and, of course, comply with copyright legislation, we can also represent our clients on the defence side in a professional manner due to our many years of experience and review on your behalf the admissibility of a copyright infringement warning notice (keyword: file sharing) and the need to issue a cease-and-desist declaration and its contents and the amount of the asserted costs etc.

Because here, too, rules and boundaries must be observed and the copyright  must not be unduly burdened. We therefore recommend to our clients at this point: never sign a cease-and-desist declaration or other declaration of intent without first having it reviewed by a lawyer. It can become (very) expensive for you.