TOP lawyer 2026 for Copyright and Media law
Gregor is a lawyer for technology and media with a focus on data protection, artificial Intelligence, copyright, media, IT law and e-commerce. He regularly advises on negotiations and transactions, financing and joint ventures as well as on regulatory aspects of the digital business. His clients include technology start-ups, ISPs, games, film and television companies as well as financial institutions and investors.
Gregor is also an experienced litigator in complex business disputes. The distinguished legal expert is an award-winning and recommended lawyer in the fields of technology and data protection.
Gregor and Nico Jänicke are the Local Managers of Taylor Wessing's Berlin office.
The final GPAI Code of Practice: Key insights, unresolved questions, and parallel regulatory tracks, News Alert 11.7.2025
The DSA, the EMFA and the AI content conundrum, Gregor Schmid, Nathalie Koch and Alexander Schmalenberger look at the legal implications of the European Media Freedom Act for AI-assisted journalism, TW Interface July 2025
Access to audiovisual media services under the European Accessibility Act. Gregor Schmid, Nathalie Koch and Caroline Bunz look at what the EAA means for media services, with a focus on German implementation, TW Interface July 2025
GPAI Code of Practice - Third Draft: Changes to the requirements for copyright compliance, March 2025
New decision of the German Federal Court of Justice: Birkenstock sandals are not art, February 2025
EU Copyright – worldwide? On the extraterritorial effect of the copyright related rules of the AI Act, KIR 2025, 69
New decision of the German Federal Court of Justice: Birkenstock sandals are not art
GPAI Code of Practice - Third Draft: Changes to the requirements for copyright compliance
The European Media Freedom Act, MMR 2024, 843, beck-online
The European Media Freedom Act - the EU's new approach to protecting media plurality and independent journalism, in: Interface, July 2024
AI, the Artificial Intelligence Act & Copyright, May 2024
Richtlinien und Guidelines für Let’s Plays, Urheberrecht und UrhDaG, in: MMR 2023, 638
Generative AI in gaming: immense potential... with some unanswered legal questions in: Interface, July 2023
The European Media Freedom Act: a pan European media law? in: Interface, June 2023
Digital Services Act – Zahl der „aktiven Nutzer“, „Dark Patterns“ und weitere aktuelle Fragestellungen nach Inkrafttreten des DSA, MMR-Aktuell 2023, 455779, beck-online
Urheberrecht für Games, in: Games und Recht, 2022
„Sein Auto, sein Entwurf“ – Wem gehört der Porsche 911? Anmerkung zu BGH, Urteil vom 7.4.2022, Gregor Schmid / Timm Düwel, ZUM 2022, 561
„Käfer-Lächeln“ und „Ei-Form“: Der VW-Käfer und das Urheberrecht., Anmerkung zu OLG Braunschweig, Urteil vom 10.3.2022, Timm Düwel / Gregor Schmid, ZUM-RD 2022, 377
Lizenzen/Nutzungsrechte, in: Digital Escrow - Rechtsschutz durch Hinterlegung digitaler Wirtschaftsgüter, 2022
Insolvenzfestigkeit von Nutzungsrechten, in: Digital Escrow - Rechtsschutz durch Hinterlegung digitaler Wirtschaftsgüter, 2022
Datenschutz , in: Digital Escrow - Rechtsschutz durch Hinterlegung digitaler Wirtschaftsgüter, 2022
Digital Services Act: Neues „Grundgesetz für Onlinedienste“? Auswirkungen des Kommissionsentwurfs für die Digitalwirtschaft, Gregor Schmid / Max Grewe, MMR 2021, S. 279, beck-online
Reale Gebäude und Gegenstände in Computerspielen. Reichstag, Humvees und Fußballtrikots – Nutzung ohne Lizenzen möglich? Gregor Schmid / Tim Düwel, MMR 2020, S. 155, beck-online
Einordnung eines Livestreams als Rundfunk – Anmerkung zum Urteil des VG Berlin vom 26.9.2019, MMR 2020, 271
Digital Services Act und Digital Markets Act: (Nicht nur) die e-Commerce-Richtlinie auf dem Prüfstand
Update Urheberrecht im Digitalen Binnenmarkt: Zur Implementierung der DSM-Urheberrechts-Richtlinie in Deutschland
Game Subsidies in Germany – Recent Developments, Interface, Ausgabe #24, August 2019
Neue Vertriebsstrukturen mit digitalem Content am Beispiel von E-Books, in: DGRI Jahrbuch 2014, S. 173 - 192
TOP lawyer 2026 for Copyright and Media law
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Gregor Schmid has extensive experience at the interface between e-commerce, copyright and data protection and provides support in licence negotiations and transactions in the digital space.
Recognition as one of the top 3 copy right lawyers in Germany
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