BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lars Kindervater joined in August 2008 Deutsche Telekom Group Headquarters' Public & Regulatory Affairs department where he works on public and regulatory issues in a national and international context. He coordinates Deutsche Telekom's consumer-related topics such as universal service, health & EMF, consumer rights and child safety.

Before joining this position Lars Kindervater worked five years for Deutsche Telekom’s international mobile unit T-Mobile on similar subjects and two years for T-Mobile Germany. Previously Lars Kindervater was in charge of the parliamentary office of a German Member of Parliament for nearly five years on a part-time basis.

Lars Kindervater has been deeply involved in his company’s child safety activities in Germany but also internationally. Among other, he led on behalf of Deutsche Telekom the negotiations on the European Safer Mobile Framework (2007), the global Mobile Alliance against Child Sexual Abuse (2008) and TeachToday.eu (2008).

Lars graduated (Master of Arts) in Political Science, International Law and Modern History at the University of Bonn. Furthermore he holds a Master of European Studies of the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI). He is fluent in English and German.

ABSTRACT

28 September, Tuesday, 14.30 – 16.30

Parallel session: Legal and user issues in the online environment

Presentation title: Mobile Privacy

Copyright law is nowadays the key factor which determines access to and use of any content. Whereas two decades ago copyright concerned only a narrow circle of authors, creators and middlemen, today it applies to anyone who creates, copies or downloads the e-content. At the same time copyright awareness is rather shallow and Poland suffers from lack of law education programmes.

In my presentation I will show the importance which copyright has for Internet users and the need for copyright education. I will also prove that teaching copyright does not amount to teaching about copyright infringement, its violation or copyright protection attributed to professional creators. To explain to children and young people that they are, or soon will be, the subjects of copyright law and that they can consciously manage their own or other people’s intellectual property is of the utmost importance.