Prof. Dr. iur. Thomas Dreier
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Brief CV
Thomas Dreier, Dr. iur. Munich, M.C.J. (New York University), is Professor of Law at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, where he is the Director of the Institute for Information and Economic Law, and Honorary Professor at the Law department of the University of Freiburg, Germany.
Until 1999, he was working as senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for intellectual property, Munich, Germany. He has been an advisor to the European Commission on the drafting of the Satellite and Cable Directive, and he has also been advising the Council of Europe and UNESCO on copyright matters. Prof. Dreier is vice-president of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI) and vice-chairman of ALAI’s German national group. He also chairs the copyright committee of the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V., GRUR), and from 2001 – 2009 he also acted as Executive Secretary of the German Computer Law Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V., DGRI). Prof. Dreier has been a guest Professor at the University of Toulouse (France), at the New York University School of Law (USA), at Haifa University (Israel) and at the National University of Singapore (Singapore).
He is the author of numerous publications, amongst them Dreier/Schulze, Urheberrecht, 3rd edition, 2008, and he also is co-editor of the “Concise IP” commentaries on European intellectual property law, amongst them Dreier/Hugenholtz, Concise European Copyright Law, 2006.