Alexander Scheuer

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Alexander Scheuer (* 1968 in Aachen ) is a German lawyer and is responsible for media policy and media regulation at DTAG. From 2000 to 2013 he was managing director of the Institute for European Media Law (EMR) in Saarbrücken / Brussels.

Life

Scheuer studied law at the Saarland University and the Katholieke University of Leuven in Belgium. In 1994 he completed the postgraduate course “European Integration” at the Europa-Institut , Law Section, Saarland University. From 1994 to 1995 he also held the position of deputy managing director at the Europa-Institut. From 1994 to 1996 he was a trainee lawyer at the Saarland Higher Regional Court . In 1996 he became a research associate and deputy managing director of the Institute for European Media Law. V. (EMR), from September 2000 to June 2013 he was its managing director and in this function also a member of the institute's board of directors. He was above the 2000 Lawyer admitted. Since July 2013, he has been the responsible employee in the field of media policy and media regulation at Deutsche Telekom , Bonn.

From 2001 to 2013, Scheuer was a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAI) in Strasbourg, and since 1998 he has been a member of the editorial committee of “IRIS - Legal Review”. In 2004 he was appointed to the board of trustees of the Freiwilligen Selbstkontrolle Fernsehen eV (FSF) in Berlin, where he was deputy chairman from 2013 to 2016. From 2012 to 2013 he worked in the Center for Child Protection on the Internet (I-KiZ) set up at the Federal Youth Ministry. In 2017 he was appointed by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM) to the administrative board of the Federal Film Funding Agency (FFA), where he represents the associations Anga, bitkom and eco .

He regularly gives lectures on national and European media, telecommunications, youth protection and copyright law and takes part in relevant panel discussions. He often moderated panel discussions on these topics, including a. in the context of media expert seminars of various EU Council presidencies, and was an author and editor of publications a. a. active in the aforementioned areas of law. Scheuer is co-editor and author of the English-language commentary " European Media Law ", was co-author of the commentary on the EU treaties from 1999 and until 2013 was part of the editorial team of the EMR series, some of which he co-edited.

Memberships

  • Member of the EMR since 1999
  • Since 1998 member of the editorial board of the IRIS - legal review of the EAI
  • From 2004 to 2016 member, from 2013 deputy Chairman of the FSF Board of Trustees
  • 2012–2013 member of the I-KiZ at the Federal Youth Ministry
  • Member of the EMR Research Advisory Board since 2013
  • Member of the FFA Board of Directors since 2017

Publications (excerpt)

  • Access to digital satellite distribution, digitization and television without borders, expert opinion on behalf of the Joint Agency for Digital Access of the Directors' Conference of the State Media Authorities (with Alexander Roßnagel, Werner Sosalla, Thomas Kleist). Publication series of the state media authorities, Volume 28, Vistas Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89158-376-1 .
  • Technical Bottlenecks, Vertically-integrated Markets and New Forms of Media Concentration ?. And: Digital Television Glossary (with Michael Knopp). In: European Audiovisual Observatory (Ed.), IRIS Special 2004, Regulating Access to Digital Television, Strasbourg 2004, ISBN 92-871-5402-3 .
  • Sport in the mirror of European media law, I and II (with Peter Strothmann). IRIS plus 2004-4 ( PDF ( memento of May 26, 2004 in the Internet Archive )) and 2004-6 ( PDF ( memento of December 6, 2004 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Clarification of fundamental questions - The EU checks the financing of public broadcasting (with Thomas Kleist). In: Funk-Korrespondenz, No. 10, March 11, 2005.
  • Culture quotas on the radio (with Simon Osterwalder, Alexander Rossnagel, Rolf H. Weber, Sonnia Wüst). Series of publications by the Institute for European Media Law (EMR), Volume 31, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1964-3 .
  • Are audience contacts suitable for determining the influence of opinion and assessing the prevailing power of opinion? Are there alternatives? In: KEK (Ed.), Media-Relevant Related Markets in Broadcasting Law Concentration Control, DLM Series Volume 35, Vistas Verlag, Berlin 2006.
  • Audiovisual media without limits. And: New regulations for audiovisual media services - regulations on advertising and the protection of minors and their application in the member states (each with Thomas Kleist). In: MultiMedia und Recht (MMR) 3/2006, p. 127 ff. Or MMR 4/2006, p. 206 ff.
  • Traditional paradigms for new services? - The Commission Proposal for an Audiovisual Media Services Directive. In: Communications & Strategies, No. 62 (2nd quarter 2006), pp. 71 et seq.
  • Implementation and Monitoring - Safeguarding the general interest of commercial communications. In: EAI (ed.), Audiovisual Media Services Without Borders, IRIS Special, Strasbourg 2006, ISBN 978-92-871-6117-8 .
  • Public service broadcasting and the European Union - From "Amsterdam" to Altmark ": the discussion on EU state aid regulation, (with Thomas Kleist). In: Nissen, CS (Ed.), Making a Difference: Public Service Broadcasting in the European Media Landscape, Eastleigh 2006.
  • The reform of the regulation of electronic media in Europe - illustrated using the example of the EC, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom (with Alexander Rossnagel, Thomas Kleist). Publication series Medienforschung der LfM, Volume 53, Vistas Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89158-445-3 .
  • Progress in the discussion about must-offers? On exclusivity in media and communication (with Sebastian M. Schweda). IRIS plus 2008-10, Strasbourg 2008 ( PDF ( Memento of February 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Co-editorship and comments on Art. 3 TwFD / Art. 4 AVMSD; Art. 3a TwFD / Art. 14 AVMSD; Art. 15 AVMSD; Art. 12 TwFD / Art. 9 AVMSD; Art. 18-20 TwFD / Art. 23-26 AVMSD; Art. 23-23a TwFD / Art. 28-29 AVMSD, Art. 24-27 TwFD / Art. 31-36 AVMSD (partly with co-authors: Thorsten Ader, Julian Oberndörfer, Carmen Palzer, Max Schoenthal). In: Oliver Castendyk, Egbert Dommering, Alexander Scheuer (eds) "European Media Law", Kluwer Law International, Alphen a / d Rijn 2008, ISBN 978-90-411-2347-3 .
  • Ensuring interoperability as a goal of regulating radio transmission - study on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (with Klaus Merkel, Alexander Roßnagel, Sebastian M. Schweda). Bonn / Munich / Saarbrücken 2009, http://www.bmwi.de/DE/Mediathek/Publikationen/publikationen-archiv,did=303108.html
  • Competition in network operation: a prerequisite for lively development in broadcasting. (with Alexander Rossnagel, Thomas Kleist). Publication series of the state media authorities, Volume 42, Vistas Verlag Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89158-514-6 .
  • Information broker in duty ?! - Responsibility and liability in the press, radio and internet. Short study on behalf of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (with Martin Kuhr). In: FES (Ed.), EU-Medienpolitik, Volume 6, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86872-076-1 .
  • Poldergeist - trust and responsibility in the Dutch youth media protection system. In: FSF (ed.), Tv discurs: “Kijkwijzer - The system of self-classification in the Netherlands”, 2009 (booklet, p. 32 ff).
  • The State Aid Risk - The Household Tax and EU Law (with Thomas Kleist). In: epd medien, No. 28 of April 14, 2010, pp. 3–7.
  • The new architecture of the protection of minors in the media - on the amendment to the JMStV (with Thomas Kleist). In: Bernd Holznagel, Ingrid Scheithauer, Wolfgang Thaenert (eds.), On the construction of the digital house - Festschrift for Norbert Schneider, Vistas Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89158-538-2 .
  • Is the convergence eating its children? - To update the protection of minors in radio and telemedia. In: FSF (Hrsg.), Tv diskurs: “Competent on the Net - How do children deal with Internet advertising?”, 2010 (Issue 3).
  • European and national media law in dialogue - law, politics, culture, technology, use (ed. With Thomas Kleist, Alexander Roßnagel). Series of publications by the Institute for European Media Law (EMR), Volume 40, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden 2010, ISBN 978-3-8329-6241-8 .
  • Free movement of workers and freedom of establishment. In: Carl Otto Lenz / Klaus-Dieter Borschardt (eds.), "Commentary on the EU contracts", 5th edition 2010, Bundesanzeiger Verlag, Bonn, ISBN 978-3-89817-702-3 .
  • Germany: Selected regulatory aspects of commercial communications in on-demand audiovisual services. In: EAI (ed.), The regulation of audiovisual on-demand services: Chaos or Coherence, IRIS Special, Strasbourg 2011, ISBN 978-92-871-7302-7 .
  • The protection of personal data and the media (with Sebastian M. Schweda). In: EAI (ed.) The limits to the use of personal data, IRIS plus 2011-6, Strasbourg 2011, ISBN 978-92-871-7394-2 .
  • Convergence as a challenge for media and network politics (with Wolfgang Kopf). In: Winfried Engel, Norbert Holzer, Stephan Ory (eds.), "Evolution of the Media - The Struggle for Continuity", Festschrift in honor of Professor Wolfgang Thaenert, Baden-Baden 2013, ISBN 978-3-8487-1046-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Scheuer, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen