Dr. Till Jaeger

Till Jaeger has been a partner at JBB Rechtsanwälte since 2001. He advises large and medium-sized IT businesses as well as government authorities and software developers on matters involving contracts, licensing and online use. Till Jaeger also covers conventional areas of copyright law and entertainment law, advising corporate clients on matters relating to open content, web design and photography.

One particular focus of Till Jaeger’s work is on the legal issues created by open source software. He is co-founder of the Institute for Legal Aspects of Free & Open Source Software (ifrOSS), contributing to its work with academic publications, lectures and seminars in the fields of software law and copyright law. He provides advice on compliance with open source licenses and on compatibility issues, and helps developers and software companies to enforce licenses both in Germany and beyond.

Till Jaeger covers all aspects of licensing under intellectual property law, including licenses for patents and know-how as well as for copyright works.

Fachanwalt für Urheber- und Medienrecht (Certified Copyright and Media Law Attorney)

Copyright law, software law, licensing law, open source

Till Jaeger has written numerous essays and articles that have been published in various compendiums and law journals.

Chapter Germany (with Tim Engelhardt), in: Van den Brande/Coughlan/Jaeger (Ed.), The International Free and Open Source Law Book, Open Source Press, Munich, Germany 2011

Enforcement of the GNU GPL in Germany and Europe, JIPITEC 2010, 34

For the past several years Till Jaeger has been frequently speaking in seminars 

and workshops on topics within his core areas of specialty. An overview on these 

activities can be found on the ifrOSS website.

Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V. (German Society for Law & Computer Science)

Deutsche Vereinigung für gewerblichen Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht e.V. (German Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property)

Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software (Institute for Legal Issues in Free & Open Source Software)

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Informationstechnologie im Deutschen Anwaltverein (“Information Technology”: study group at the German Lawyers’ Association (DAV))

Beirat LOS! NRW e.V. Advisory committee LOS! North Rhine-Westphalia  e.V.

Open Source Automation Development Labs

Till Jaeger graduated in jurisprudence from the University of Mainz and has also studied in Dijon, France. He started his legal clerkship in Brandenburg in 1996.

After that, he was given a DFG scholarship to attend a post-graduate course on EU law and the protection of personal rights in Munich. In 1999-2000 he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on copyright law at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition & Tax Law Munich. This thesis was jointly supervised by Prof. Schricker from Munich University and Prof. Gautier from Paris University (Panthéon-Assas).

French, English