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Johanna is a member of our Practice Area Technology, Media & Telecoms. She mainly advises internet intermediaries such as search engine providers, access, hosting and content providers on media, copyright and data protection law, with a focus on liability issues for (third-party) content on the internet and media regulatory requirements. Johanna is a highly experienced litigator in this area and represents her clients before German courts of general and administrative jurisdiction as well as before the ECJ and ECtHR.


Johanna is a specialist lawyer in copyright and media law. She received her doctorate on a copyright topic. Johanna regularly publishes and lectures on media, data protection and press law topics.

Johanna is a member of the board of the German Association of Law and Informatics and co-chairs the expert committee ‘Social Media and Intermediaries on the Internet’.

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CV

Since 2025 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2020 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 – 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 Established as a lawyer, Hamburg
2014 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
2014 Second state examination, Hamburg
2012 Doctoral degree on a theme of ancillary copyright law for the press, Universität zu Köln
2012 – 2014 Legal clerkship, Hamburg
2010 First state examination, Köln
2005 – 2010 Degree, Law, Universität zu Köln

Career

Since 2025 Partner, Taylor Wessing
2020 Salary Partner, Taylor Wessing
2018 – 2019 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2015 – 2017 Associate, Taylor Wessing

Education

2015 Established as a lawyer, Hamburg
2014 Admitted as a lawyer, Hamburg
2014 Second state examination, Hamburg
2012 Doctoral degree on a theme of ancillary copyright law for the press, Universität zu Köln
2012 – 2014 Legal clerkship, Hamburg
2010 First state examination, Köln
2005 – 2010 Degree, Law, Universität zu Köln

Publications

Ein Minenfeld für Anbieter sozialer Netzwerke – Zwischen NetzDG, Verfassungsrecht und Vertragsfreiheit, in: Kommunikation & Recht, 05/2020, gemeinsam mit Dr. Britta Heymann

Enforcing the German Network Enforcement Act, 10/2019

Die Macht der Daten und der Algorithmen, Beitrag: Ein Minenfeld für soziale Netzwerke – Zwischen NetzDG, Verfassungsrecht und Vertragsfreiheit, in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie, 2019

Germany's Network Enforcement Act and its impact on social networks, 08/2018

Recht 4.0 – Innovationen aus den rechtswissenschaftlichen Laboren, Automatisiert, automatisierter, hochautomatisiert – Fahren bald alle Level 5?, in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2017

Entscheidungsbesprechung zu OLG Köln, Urt. v. 23.12.2016 - 6 U 119/16: Verantwortlichkeit für irreführende Informationen auf Internetseiten Dritter, in: MMR-Aktuell 2017, 388858

Zur Verpflichtung, falsche Informationen auf Internetseiten Dritter zu berichtigen, in: IPRB 2017

Smart World – Smart Law? – Weltweite Netze mit regionaler Regulierung, Ich packe meinen Koffer und nehme mit… meine Online-Inhalte, in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2016

Internet der Dinge – Digitalisierung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, Hello Barbie! We kids dislike you – unknowingly., in: Taeger, Jürgen (Hrsg.), Tagungsband Herbstakademie 2015

Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger, Frankfurt am Main 2013

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Technology, media & communications

Online intermediaries and illegal content under the Digital Services Act

19 September 2022

by Dr. Johanna Götz

Interface - Regulating the internet

Enforcing the German Network Enforcement Act

A little over a year ago, we discussed the impact of the German Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz (Network Enforcement Act, or NetzDG) which came into force on 1 October 2017, and its impact on freedom of speech on social networks. On its two year anniversary, we ask: does it work?

1 October 2019

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