Martin Senftleben

Martin Senftleben is Professor of Intellectual Property at the Free University of Amsterdam (Vrije Universiteit). In the field of copyright, his research focuses on an appropriate balance between exclusive rights and limitations in the digital environment, and individual and collaborative processes of creation.

After graduation at the University of Heidelberg he worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam and the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law in Munich. In 2004, he was awarded a doctorate by the University of Amsterdam. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Senftleben worked in the trademark department of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Geneva.