PD Dr. Patrick Zurth, LL.M. (Stanford)
Academic staff
Office address:
Akademiestraße 7
Room 411 (4. OG)
Vita
- 2025
- Acting professor at University of Mannheim
- 2025
- Acting professor at University of Göttingen
- 2025
- Postdoctoral qualification (“Habilitation”), LMU Munich
- 2024
- Research stay at NYU School of Law
- 2019/2020
- Law studies at Stanford Law School, in the Law, Science & Technology program Degree: Master of Laws (LL.M.)
- 2018 – 2025
- Postdoctoral Fellow in Private law and Intellectual Property law with Information- and IT-law at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich
- 2017/2018
- Attorney at law at Raue LLP, Berlin
- 2015 – 2017
- Legal traineeship, Berlin
- 2013 – 2016
- Doctoral studies at Humboldt University, Berlin Doctoral thesis on contractual and statutory rights of use in Copyright law
awarded the Karlheinz Quack Prize
supported by a publishing cost subsidy from the FAZIT Foundation
supported by a publishing cost subsidy from the Johanna and Fritz Buch Memorial Foundation
Degree: Doctor iuris (Dr. iur.) - 2013 – 2016
- Research assistant in Private law, Intellectual Property law, International Private law and Comparative law at Humboldt University, Berlin
- 2010 – 2012
- Merit-based scholarship of Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- 2009 – 2011
- Student assistant in Business law, Corporate law and Technology law at Technische Universität (Technical University), Berlin
- 2007 – 2012
- Law studies at Humboldt University, Berlin Degree: First State Exam
Concentration at university: Intellectual Property law - 2006/2007
- Community Service in Berlin
- 2006
- Abitur (high school diploma) in Berlin
List of Publications
- The concept of property infringement (as a “disturber”) in private law (forthcoming).
- Contractual and statutory rights of use in copyright law (doctorate), 2016.
- Legal commentary: sec. 32g, 36b, 36c, and 36d (with Prof. Dr. Jan Hegemann) and 40a (with Prof. Dr. Artur-Axel Wandtke and Prof. Dr. Jan Hegemann), for Wandtke/Bullinger, Commentary on the Copyright Act, 2019 (1st edition, without sec. 32g, 36d), 2022 (2nd edition).
- Legal commentary: sec. 92 to 127 (with Martin Küppers), sec. 38 and 138 to 141, for Heine/Holzmüller, Commentary on the Law of Collecting Societies, 2019 (1st edition, without sec. 92 to 127, 140, 141), 2024 (2nd edition, 2025)
- Neutral network blocking (forthcoming, with Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner)
- Mandated private enforcement, 2025
- Private enforcement in the Digital Services Act, 2024
- The Implementation of the DSM Directive’s Contract Provisions into German Law, for Geiregat/Vanhees, Copyright Contracts Tomorrow, 2023
- Sui generis right for the maker of a database, for Loewenheim, Copyright Law, 2021 (with Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner)
- Transfer of contracts in networks – illustrated by copyright license chains, 201
- Chapters on Licensing and Insolvency law, for: Obergfell/Hauck, Licensing Law (Textbook), 2016 (1st edition), 2020 (2nd edition)
- Deep Fakes in copyright, 2025
- Indirect infringement of trade secrets, 2025
- Injunctions against intermediaries in the unitary patent system, 2024 (with Prof. Dr. Matthias Leistner and Sandra Stadler)
- The new era of platform liability – On the farewell of Störerhaftung from modern copyright law, 2022
- The taming of price algorithms under antitrust law, 2021
- Personalized Pricing, 2021
- Data and information as part of the debtor’s insolvency estate?, 2021 (with Dr. Jan Lersch)
- The German NetzDG as Role Model or Cautionary Tale? – Implications for the Debate on Social Media Liability, Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. Vol. XXXI 2021, No. 4, 1084 (available at https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/
viewcontent.cgi?article=1782&context=iplj) - Artificial Creativity? A Case against Copyright Protection for AI generated Works, UCLA J. L. & Tech. Vol. 25, Issue 2 (available at https://uclajolt.com/artificial-creativity-a-case-against-copyright-protection-for-ai-generated-works/)
- #transparency: tagging user-generated advertising on social networks under the new AVMSD directive – part 2 (with Viola Pless), 2019
- #transparency: tagging user-generated advertising on social networks under the new AVMSD directive – part 1 (with Viola Pless), 2019
- Impacts of German Law of unjust enrichment on Intellectual Property Law, 2018
- Copyright dilemma of General Terms and Conditions, 2018 (with Peter McColgan)
- After the reform of the reform: the new copyright contract law, 2017 (with Prof. Dr. Eva Inés Obergfell), 2017
- The appropriateness of contractual copyright remuneration and their legal safeguards. On the reform of copyright contract law, 2016 (with Prof. Dr. Eva Inés Obergfell)
- Legal issues of online streaming, 2014
- Legal consequences of remedial actions by the buyer, 2014
- Comment on the judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court “Moody v. NetChoice” of July 1, 2024 (content moderation and free speech), 2024
- Comment on the judgment of the General Court of September 27, 2023 on geoblocking online platforms in the conflict between antitrust and copyright law, 2024
- Comment on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of November 23, 2023 on Remuneration for broadcasting organizations, 2024
- Comment on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of February 8, 2024 on making available to the public through retransmission, 2024
- Comment on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of April 20, 2023 on making available to the public by loudspeaker on board, 2023
- Comment on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of June 22, 2021 on the liability of a video sharing platforms and share hosting platforms, 2021
- Comment on the judgment of the Regional Court (Landgericht) Munich of April 29, 2019 on surreptitious advertising in posts by influencers through linking, 2019 (with Viola Pless)
- Comment on the judgment of the European Court of Justice of April 26, 2017 on making available to the public by sale of a multimedia media player, 2017
- Sample student presentation as part of the state exam in civil law, 2019
- Conference report: Annual Conference of Young IP Academics in Bonn on June 24 and 25, 2022
- Conference report: A look beyond the rim of one’s nose – Report and reflection of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association of Young Civil Law Academics on “Intra- and Interdisciplinarity in Civil Law” in Innsbruck from September 6 to 9, 2017, 2018
- Discussion report: The authors' perspective: demands on the legislator, 2015
- Copyright in a digital Europe, 2023