Dr. Kerstin Bäcker is a partner at LAUSEN Rechtsanwälte and heads the Cologne office. She is a specialist lawyer for copyright and media law and has been working for years on the adaptation of the copyright framework to new technical developments in the context of individual and collective licensing and related business cases: from the responsibility of platforms and social media for user content to artificial intelligence, the metaverse and NFTs. Her clients include music, audio and film productions. She also works as a lecturer and moderator and is the author of the Handbook for the Music Industry and the Handbook for Cultural Management.