Schedule Akademy 2020

Lawyer with more than 15 years experience in public licensing schemes (Creative Commons and Open Source software licenses). Currently focussing on governance and compliance questions. Founder of the Software Compliance Academy.

Dr. Catharina Maracke is a technology lawyer with more than 15 years experience working on public licensing schemes and related governance models. Her current work and research interests include copyright law and policy, the intersection between law and technology and with a particular focus on Open Source governance. She is also the founder of the Software Compliance Academy, a boutique training and consulting firm to support clients in Open Source compliance and strategies.

Catharina graduated from the University of Kiel and the Hamburg Court of Appeal, Germany, with the first and second state examination. While studying, she obtained a scholarship from the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich to write her PhD thesis on the history of the German Copyright Act of 1965. As international Director at Creative Commons she has overseen the international license porting projects for more than 3 years. Catharina has served as a board member for iCommons and the OpenCourseWare Consortium. She is admitted to the bar in Germany.