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Biography

Prof. Dr. Wiebe graduated from the University of Hannover in 1987 and received the LL.M. degree at the University of Virginia (U.S.A.) in 1988. Having obtained the doctoral degree in 1991 with a comparative work on the protection of computer programmes in the U.S. and Germany he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Legal Informatics at the University of Hannover. In 2001 his habilitation was accepted based on a work on electronic contracting. From 2002 to 2009 he was the head of the Department of Information Law and Intellectual Property Law at Vienna University of Economics and Business. He was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School from January to June 2008 and at the University of Nanjing, China, in 2012. Since May 2009 he is a professor of intellectual property law and ICT law at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Main areas of research are information and communication technology law, copyright and intellectual property law, and unfair competition law. He participated in several nationally and EU funded research projects, in recent years with a special focus on data protection and data rights. He is the Director of the new LL.M. programme on “European and Transnational IP and IT Law” at the University of Göttingen established in 2017. Prof. Wiebe is on the scientific board of several IT and media law journals in Germany and other European countries. He was Vice President of the German computer law association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik, DGRI e.V.) from 2005 to 2011. He is also an active member of the German Society of intellectual property law (GRUR e.V.). Since the beginning of 2018 he is the Data Protection Officer of the University of Göttingen.