Adolf Dietz

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Adolf Dietz (born July 10, 1936 in Munich ) is a German lawyer and university professor who primarily deals with questions of copyright . He is a Research Associate ( Affiliated Research Fellow ) at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law and previously worked for a long time at its predecessor institutes.

Life

Dietz studied law from 1958 to 1963 at the University of Munich and at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1966 he received his doctorate from the University of Munich. He passed the second state examination in law in 1967, also in Munich. In 1966 he became a research assistant at what was then the "Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright and Competition Law". In 1968 he joined the SPD .

From 1972 to 1978 he was head of department at this Max Planck Institute, and from 1978 until his retirement in 2001 he held the position of "research group leader". He worked in the copyright department. Dietz is a specialist in "German, European and international copyright law as well as intellectual property of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the People's Republic of China".

In an article about the "Wiener Tage der Musikwirtschaftsforschung" 2013, Dietz is described as the "god of copyright" for lawyers in the "music business".

Scientific prizes, honors and memberships (selection)

  • 2002: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1998 to 2004: President of the German national group of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale
  • 1995 to 2001: visiting professor at the Renmin University of Beijing
  • 1982 to 2001: Vice-President of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale - ALAI (Paris)
  • 1993 to 1998: Lecturer in copyright law and since 1998 honorary professor at the University of Passau
  • 1982 to 1998: Vice President of the German National Group of the ALAI
  • 1991: Commander (Knight) of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland
  • 1996 Dr. hc from the Catholic University of Brussels

Publications (selection)

  • Germany. In: P. Geller (Ed.): International Copyright Law and Practice. LexisNexis Release 23, 2012, p. GER 1 - GER 166.
  • Influence of EU copyright harmonization directives on the building of post-socialist copyright law in Eastern Europe. In: M.-C. Janssens, G. van Overwalle (Ed.): Harmonization of European IP Law. From European rules to Belgian law and practice. Contributions in honor of Frank Gotzen. Larcier / Bruylant, Brussels 2012, pp. 99–113.
  • Comparative analysis of the Polish law of collecting societies after the reform of the copyright law of 2010. In: K. Klafkowska-Wasniowska et al. (Ed.): Problemy polskiego i europejskiego prawa prywatnego. Ksiega pamiatkowa Professora Mariana Kepinskiego. Warszawa. Wolters Kluwer Polska, 2012, ISBN 978-83-264-3769-4 , pp. 199-216.
  • Copyright in Spain and Portugal: comparative study. (= Series of publications on European law, politics and economics. Volume 138). prepared on behalf of the Commission of the European Communities. Nomos-Verlags-Gesellschaft, Baden-Baden 1990, ISBN 3-7890-2038-9 .
  • as co-author: Copyright: Comment. edited by Gerhard Schricker . 3rd, revised edition. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-53783-9 . (4th edition. Beck, Munich 2010, edited by Ulrich Loewenheim, ISBN 978-3-406-59033-7 )

Festschrift for Dietz

  • Peter Ganea et al. Ed .: Copyright yesterday - today - tomorrow: Festschrift for Adolf Dietz on his 65th birthday. Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-48174-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luise Wolf: The next big thing. Interview with Peter Tschmuck, introduction. June 19, 2013. (thegap.at)
personal data
SURNAME Dietz, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich