Dr. Matthias Grundmann
Lawyer BvM Munich

Matthias Grundmann advises on media and entertainment law on a national and international level. His practice focuses on consumer electronics, streaming (film and music), television, graphics, art, internet and e-business. His clients include large tech companies, production companies, but also investors, selected producers, directors and musicians (including Oscar and Grammy winners). A selection of productions advised by Dr Grundmann can be found on IMDb.

As a co-author in the Handbuch Filmrecht (C.H. Beck Verlag) and the next edition of the Heidelberger Kommentar zum Urheberrecht (C.F. Müller Verlag), he publishes on legal topics, but also has a keen interest in biographies and conducts interviews for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Due to his interest in art and legal history, Matthias Grundmann has also appeared as a legal expert in a documentary on ARTE. Mr Grundmann studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. During his legal traineeship, he dealt intensively with negotiation management and trained as a business mediator (MuCDR). Matthias Grundmann is a lecturer at the Erich Pommer Institute (EPI), occasionally acts in films and is a board member of a parent-child initiative.

Admission to the Bar

2011

Publications

Announced: Dreyer/Kotthoff/Hentsch, Heidelberger Kommentar zum Urheberrecht, 5th edition, C.F. Müller Verlag, 2023, Mediation and out-of-court dispute resolution and representation by associations (Sections 32f and g), Mediation and out-of-court dispute resolution for video-on-demand services (Section 35a), Photographs (Section 72), Broadcasting organisations (Section 87) and Part 3 - Special provisions for films (Sections 88 to 95) and (in each case together with Guido Hettinger).

Schwarz, Handbuch Filmrecht, 6th edition, C.H. Beck Verlag, 2021, ch. 251, "Forms of Pay-TV (Pay-TV, Pay-per-Channel, Pay-per-View, NVoD)", ch. 251, "Teleshopping", ch. 251, "Business TV" (each together with Oliver Castendyk)

Foreign languages

English

Sundry

Training as business mediator at the Munich Center for Dispute Resolution (MuCDR)

Regular lecturer at the Erich Pommer Institute (EPI)