Diana Spikowius

Rechtsanwältin (Lawyer), Associate

Intellectual Property Disputes
diana.spikowius@noerr.com
+49 351 8166029
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Distinctions

  • GRUR Dissertation Award 2024 in the category ‘Copyright and Media Law’

Career

Studied law at Humboldt University in Berlin and Queen Mary University of London (UK)
Member of staff in the press office of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV)
Research assistant during doctoral studies at Noerr in copyright and media law as well as industrial property rights and at another internationally active German commercial law firm in the field of telecommunications, media and technology (TMT)
Legal Associate at Universal Music Entertainment GmbH (Legal and Business Affairs)
Internship at a US commercial law firm in the litigation department in San Francisco (USA)
Doctorate at Humboldt University in Berlin
Legal clerkship at the Berlin Court of Appeal with stations at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and at a US commercial law firm specialising in entertainment and sports law in New York City (USA)
2026
Admitted to the Chamber of Lawyers of Saxony
2026
Joined Noerr as a lawyer

Memberships

  • German Association for Industrial Property and Copyright (GRUR)

Lectures

  • 26 January 2026, Institute for Industrial Property and Copyright Law (IGrU) at the University of Cologne, lecture in Cologne on the topic of ‘Artist contract models in the music industry’
  • 24 September 2025, GRUR Bavaria, lecture in Munich on the topic of ‘Artist contract models in the music industry – systematisation, flexible system of unconscionability in artist contract law’
  • GRUR Annual Conference 2024, lecture as part of the dissertation award ceremony, presentation of the main research findings of the dissertation on the topic of ‘Artist contract models in the music industry’

Publications

  • EuGH 15.01.2026 - C-822/24: Speichermedienabgabe: EuGH zur Privatnutzungsvermutung und zum Nachweis rein gewerblicher Nutzung, GRUR-Prax 2026, 129
  • Urhebervertragsrechtliche Grenzen von Künstlervertragsmodellen mit künstlerbezogener Nebenrechteverwertung, Jahrbuch Eigentum und Urheberrecht in der Demokratie (JEUD) 2022-2025, to be published by Duncker & Humblot in spring 2026
  • Künstlervertragsmodelle in der Musikwirtschaft – Rechtliche Grenzen der künstlerbezogenen Nebenrechteverwertung im Erlös-, Vermittlungs-, Options- und Leistungsmodell, dissertation, Berlin 2024, to be published by Mohr Siebeck in February 2026
  • Begriff, Relevanz und Systematisierung der künstlerbezogenen Nebenrechteverwertung im Künstlervertragsrecht, GRUR-Newsletter 01/2025, p 9–11
  • NFTs: Verwertung, Vertragspraxis, Rechtsdurchsetzung (with Fabian Rack), MMR 2022, 256–261
  • Urhebervertragsrechtliche Hinweise zu Vermarktungsstrategien mit Non- Fungible Tokens (NFT), ZdiW 2022, 258–261

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