Silke von Lewinski, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute, drafted the proposal for the second directive in the field of copyright for the European Commission, for which she invented the model of the collecting society-linked direct remuneration claim, which was also implemented in the German Act on Copyright Liability of Online Content Sharing Service Providers in 2021 for the benefit of authors and artists. She was a member of the EC delegation and deputy head of the German delegation to the WIPO Diplomatic Conferences on the WCT/WPPT and the Beijing and Marrakesh Treaties.
Silke von Lewinski has published several standard works on international and European copyright law and has taught for many years as a visiting professor at numerous universities in the USA, China and Europe. In 2020, she was appointed as »Izvanredne profesorice« (Associate Professor) at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb.