Frank Michael Höfinger advises and represents national and international clients, in particular print and online publishers as well as clients from other industries, on questions of copyright and media law, e-commerce law and data protection law. He also specialises in IT law and competition law.
Studied chemistry, philosophy and law in Munich. Professional experience as a tutor and research assistant, initially at the chair for criminal law, information law and legal informatics at the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, then as a research assistant for information law and legal informatics at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law (now: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law) in Freiburg i. Br, and as a lawyer for a media law firm in Munich. Joined LAUSEN in Cologne 2008; since 2023 in Munich. Expert speaker for the Akademie der Deutschen Medien.
Cross-border copyright infringements occur frequently in practice, naturally above all in internet cases. An action for such a copyright infringement always raises questions of procedural law, private international law and substantive law: Does the German court seized have international jurisdiction to decide the dispute? Is the legal dispute to be judged according to German copyright …
