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Till Kreutzer

iRights
Founder
Berlin Area, Germany
Till Kreutzer, PhD, is a lawyer (attorney-at-law), legal scholar and writer. He is co–founder and publisher of iRights.info, a non-profit information portal on copyright in the digital world for consumers and creators, awarded – inter alia – with the Grimme-Online-Award 2006. He is also an entrepreneur, co-founder of the iRights.Lab, an independent think tank on strategies for the digital world and founder and partner of the law firm iRights.Law. Till is a research fellow at the Hans–Bredow–Institute for media research at the University of Hamburg and a member of the Institute for Legal Issues of Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS). Till is „ad personam“ (personal) member of the German Commission for UNESCO, member of the special committee on copyright and publishing law at the German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (GRUR). Till acts also as the German representative to the Creative Commons Global Network Council (CC GNC). He published numerous articles on, inter alia, the legal questions concerning Open Content, Open Access, OER or FOSS (e.g. Open Content – A Practical Guide to Using Creative Commons Licences). Till founded the “Initiative Against An Ancillary Copyright For Press Publishers” (IGEL), a civil society initiative opposing ancillary copyrights for press publishers on the political level. He teaches copyright law, trademark law, privacy law and personal rights at various institutions (among others at the Akademie für Publizistik (Academy for Journalism), the Evangelische Journalistenschule (Evangelical School for Journalism) and the Free University of Berlin.