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Dr. Udo Kornmeier

Attorney | Partner

Udo Kornmeier is a partner and advises national and international clients on copyright, media and intellectual property law issues. He is a member of the Practice Group Dispute Resolution and has many years of experience in representing national and international clients in court cases.

Biography

Udo Kornmeier, born in Düsseldorf, studied law at the University of Cologne. After obtaining his doctorate from the Faculty for International Business Law at the Ruhr University of Bochum, he worked as a lawyer at Baker & McKenzie in Chicago and Frankfurt from 1980 to 1983, and until 1984 in Munich. In 1985 he moved to the music industry and was Director Business Affairs at Sony Entertainment until 1990, and was also Managing Director of Sony Music Publishing from 1988 to 1990. During this time he was a member of the Legal Committee at the Federal German Music Industry Association (Bundesverband der deutschen Tonträgerindustrie). He has since 1991 been a self-employed lawyer and partner of the specialist copyright and media law firm Kornmeier & Partner, which merged with Schalast in October 2016.

Publications

  • Reputationsschutz durch Kommunikation und Recht, BetriebsBerater 2019, 2690 (mit Anne Baranowski, LL.M.)
  • Das Eigentum an Daten – Zugang statt Zuordnung, BetriebsBerater 2019, 1219 (zusammen mit Anne Baranowski, LL.M.)
  • Smart Homes - wer haftet, wenn der Mähroboter Amok läuft?, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS), 8. August 2017 (mit Anne Baranowski, LL.M.)
  • Wie wissen geheim wird - Der neue Knowhow-Schutz kommt nicht von selbst, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), 15. März 2017 (with Ramón Glaßl, LL.M.)
  • Sales and Distributionverträge, in: Handbuch der Musikwirtschaft, München 2003;
  • Nutzungsrechte bei Multimedia- und Internetauswertungen (Co-Autor), in:  Handbuch der Musikwirtschaft, München 2003;
  • Die Rechte des Gläubigers nach § 321 BGB im Vergleichsverfahren des Schuldners,    Betriebs-Berater 1983, 1312;
  • Verjährungs-, Gewährleistungs- und Garantiefristen im Lichte des AGB-Gesetzes, NJW 1982, 793
  • Die Verfahrensordnungen in der internationalen Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit,  Recht der internationalen Wirtschaft 1980, 381;
  • Schiedsfähigkeit und materielle Vergleichsbefugnis, Zeitschrift für Zivilprozess 1980, 27
  • Die Schiedsgerichtsvereinbarung in der GmbH-Satzung, Der Betrieb 1980, 193;
  • Vergleichsbefugnis und Schiedsfähigkeit – dargestellt am Beispiel GmbH-rechtlicher  Nichtigkeits- und Anfechtungsklagen, Göttingen 1980  (Schriftenreihe: Abhandlungen zum Handels-, Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsrecht;  zitiert in:  BGH, NJW 1996, 1753);
  • Internationale Schiedsgerichtsvereinbarungen, in:  Sandrock:  Handbuch der Internationalen Vertragsgestaltung, Heidelberg 1980;
  • Anspruch auf Beseitigung eines mangelhaften Werkes, Anmerkung zu: OLG Hamm, NJW 1978, 2035; 

 

Projects

He has represented and advised clients in the following contractual negotiations and supreme court proceedings:

  • Advising an international concert organiser in 2016 on the licensing of rights to a series of events in South Korea;
  • Advising an international concert organiser in 2016 on the acquisition of streaming rights for the world’s largest electronic dance music event;
  • Advising a world-renowned DJ in 2014 on the conclusion of a licence agreement with an international record company;
  • Advising a record company in the first P2P test case before the German Federal Court of Justice, (BGH, 12.05.2010, I ZR 121/08, NJW 2010, 2061 - “Sommer unseres Lebens”);
  • Advising a record company in a landmark case relating to music sampling before the German Federal Court of Justice, (BGH, 20.11.2008, I ZR 112/06, GRUR 2009, 403 – “Metall auf Metall”);
  • Advising a record company in 1997 on the conclusion of a label agreement with an international record company;
  • Advising and representing a well-known German television presenter in a personality rights dispute before the German Constitutional Court (BVerfG, 12.11.1997, 1 BvR 2000/96, NJW 1998, 1386 – “Münzen-Erna”);
  • Advising an international music group in a test case relating to music piracy before before the German Federal Court of Justice, (BGH, 18.12.1997, I ZR 79/95, GRUR 1998, 568 – “Beatles Doppel-CD”);
  • Advising EMI Records International in 1994 on the acquisition of Intercord Schallplatten;
  • Advising CBS Records Germany in 1987 as In-house Counsel on the merger Sony Music in 1987;