Studied law in Mainz. Masters program at Columbia University in New York. Worked for an entertainment law firm in Berlin and in-house for a large European producer of live entertainment in Hamburg. Joined LAUSEN in 2014 and focuses in entertainment, media and copyright law for the musical theatre, event, film and TV industry. Regular guest lecturer at Columbia Law School and Columbia University School of the Arts, teaching International Theatre Law and Theatrical Producing. In 2019, Mr. Jung was elected Vice Chair of the German Musical Theatre Academy, the trade association for the musical theatre industry in the German-speaking countries. In 2023, he was named a “Rising Star” by the world’s leading legal referral publication, The Legal 500.
In the German Stage Association, Mr. Jung is appointed as an expert in the Copyright Committee as well as an elected member of the Committee for Artistic Issues.
After outgoing President Donald Trump has been banned from numerous social networks, especially his favorite megaphone Twitter, many are wondering if the same could happen to them. German Chancellor Angela Merkel finds the permanent blocking problematic. The far right cries out that private companies would now be allowed to abolish free speech. But how justified …
Comedian John Oliver hat sich in seiner HBO-Sendung am vergangenen Sonntag in sehr amüsanter Weise mit der Nutzung von Musik im US-Wahlkampf beschäftigt – inklusive eines von Musikern wie Sheryl Crow und Usher eigens komponierten und vorgetragenen Stückes namens “Don’t Use Our Song”. Anlass waren die empörten Beschwerden zahlreicher Musiker nach der Benutzung ihres Werks …
