Kerstin Bäcker

Dr. Kerstin Bäcker has been an attorney at Lausen Rechtsanwälte since 2001 and has been responsible for the Cologne office as a partner since 2004. Future topics and innovative products are Dr. Kerstin Bäcker's playground. For years, she has been dealing with the adaptation of the copyright framework to new technical developments in the context of individual and collective licensing and related business cases: starting with the responsibility of platforms and social media for user content (YouTube, Cyberlocker, etc.) up to artificial intelligence, the metaverse and NFTs. Her clients also include traditional education companies, publishing houses, cultural institutions, as well as music, audio and film production companies. She gained experience abroad at internationally active law firms in Paris, Cape Town, Melbourne and Barcelona. In addition to her work as a lawyer, Dr. Kerstin Bäcker is a speaker at the Academy of German Media and a guest speaker at various institutions, including Ansbach University of Applied Sciences and the Steinbeis Institute. She is also active as a moderator, for example at the initiative "Die Zukunft des Verlegens" (The Future of Publishing). Among other things, she is an author for the Handbook for the Music Industry and the Handbook for Cultural Management and publishes in national and international journals.