DR. CHRISTIAN CZYCHOWSKI, Dr. jur., (Attorney at Law, Certified Information Technology Lawyer, Certified Copyright and Media Lawyer, admitted at the European Trade Mark Office), studied law and musicology at the university of Bonn. There, he also worked as scholary assistent at the Institute for Administrative Law. From 1990 until 1992, Christian Czychowski was managing director of the Klassische Philharmonie Düsseldorf. He worked as a summer associate for the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in the media branch. His doctorate thesis deals with Copyright Contract Law of Eastern Europe. Christian Czychowski is a co-editor of the Manual of Intellectual Property in the Internet, a co-author of the Manual of Copyright and has specialized in IT-Law, Copyright Law, Cyberlaw and Licensing. Since 1997 he works for BOEHMERT & BOEHMERT (since 2002 as a partner) in their Berlin office. He holds lectures at the University of Potsdam Hasso-Plattner-Institute for Software Engeneering.

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