My Fascination with Copyright Law.

What drew me to copyright law — and what keeps me there — is that it sits at the intersection of creativity, technology, and business. Few areas of law touch all three at once.

A question about software ownership is simultaneously a question about how creative industries are structured, how technology companies operate, and how value gets distributed. That combination has never stopped being interesting to me.

The international dimension adds another layer that I find just as compelling. The same underlying problem — who owns what, and what can be done with it — gets answered very differently depending on where you are. Working across international media companies showed me this firsthand: not as a theoretical observation but as something you run into constantly, in contracts, in licensing, in the way disputes get framed. That experience pushed me toward comparative analysis, because I genuinely wanted to understand why jurisdictions diverge, not just that they do.

That curiosity led to my doctoral research on software copyright at the University of Vienna, to a comparative publication on U.S. and EU copyright law at Stanford Law School, and the Harvard and Berkman Klein Center's CopyrightX Program where I could engage with these questions more rigorously. Each of those experiences deepened the same core interest rather than replacing it with a new one.