The world is becoming smart: products, services, homes and factories are becoming interconnected. This makes access to data, software and platforms increasingly important. A car mechanic who cannot read a car's data can hardly repair a modern vehicle. Legally, many questions surrounding access to data are unresolved. Already, fierce battles are taking place in some industries over who has access to what data and under what conditions. What does this mean for service providers and craft enterprises? How can data access be organised in an economically sensible and legally secure way? Prof. Dr. Rupprecht Podszun, holder of the Chair of Civil Law and Competition Law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, is organising an online conference on this topic on 2 February 2022 together with the NRW Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalisation and Energy (MWIDE). In various panels, top-class experts from practice and science will explore how data access can be guaranteed for service providers in a networked economy. Minister Peter Biesenbach (Justice) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart (MWIDE) will welcome the participants to the high-profile event. The Conference will run on Webex on 2.2.2022 from 9.30-12.30 h.
The programme is available on the website https://mwide-data.mohr-live.de/, where there is also a link to registration. Participation is free of charge.
Professor Podszun has dealt intensively with the topic in the (German language) book "Handwerk in der digitalen Ökonomie - Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für den Zugang zu Daten, Software und Plattformen" (Nomos 2021). Thanks to an Open Access Strategy, the book is available for download free of charge: https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748911487/handwerk-in-der-digitalen-oekonomie?hitid=01&search-click
Research assistants Philipp Offergeld and Clemens Pfeifer were involved in the book and the preparation of the conference.