About CR Computer und Recht

CR Computer und Recht

Computer und Recht (CR) — "Zeitschrift für die Praxis des Rechts der Informationstechnologien" — is the German IT-law journal, published monthly by the Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt in Cologne. Since 1985 the title publishes the jurisprudence from all legal fields with IT-law, telecommunications-law, and media-law reference: the scientifically-founded, practice-prepared answers to the IT law's unsolved questions. The cooperation partner — the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik (DGRI) — anchors the profession: the IT lawyers' journal. The annual subscription — 713 euros plus shipping (the app and the advisory module included) — serves the specialists: the 1,500-copy circulation's readers.

Overview

The journal serves the IT-law professionals: the IT lawyers, the data-protection officers, the corporate counsels, the judges, the academics — the information technologies' law. The editorial program — structured in five rubrics (IT und Software, Daten und Sicherheit, Internet und E-Commerce, Telekommunikation und Medien, Report und Technik) — covers the IT law's agenda: the software, the data, the internet, the telecom, the reports. The jurisprudence focus — the maßgebliche Rechtsprechung im Originaltext (the authoritative case law in original text) — gives the practice: the decisions.

The analysis focus — the Rechtsprechungstrends, the Gesetzgebungsvorhaben (national and European), the EU directives — gives the foresight: the legal development's trends. The CRi — the English international — deserves its telling. The Computer Law Review International (CRi) — the English-language journal, enclosed every second month — gives the "Vorsprung durch Rechtsvergleich" (the comparative-law advantage): the state-of-the-art thinking and solution approaches from other jurisdictions. The international authors — the foreign experts — contribute the perspectives: the US, the UK, the EU. The bilingual strategy — the German CR, the English CRi — serves the globalized IT law: the cross-border transactions' law. The enclosure model — the CRi in the CR — bundles the value: the subscription's international. The comparative law's function — the foreign solutions' inspiration — enriches the German: the IT law's globalization — the journal's international dimension. The self-study — the §15 FAO contributions — serves the specialists: the Fachanwalt's training.

History

Computer und Recht — first issue 1/1985 — was founded by the Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt (Cologne) as the computer law's journal: the 1980s IT's legal questions — the software contracts, the data. The monthly rhythm — the ISSN 0179-1990 — structured the IT law's development: the decades' jurisprudence. The DGRI partnership — the profession's anchor — deserves its telling. The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V. (DGRI) — the German society for law and informatics — co-publishes the journal ("Herausgegeben gemeinsam mit DGRI e.V."): the IT lawyers' professional home. The members' preferential price — the Vorzugspreisabonnement (the Soldan's A5104700E) — binds the society: the subscription's incentive. The cooperation — the journal and the society — serves the field: the conferences, the discourse. The IT law's community — the lawyers, the academics, the officers — reads the CR: the profession's journal. The 1985 founding — the DGRI's era — paralleled the society: the computer law's institutionalization — the journal and the association, together.

The rubric evolution — from four (Computerrecht, Telekommunikationsrecht, Medienrecht, Report) to five (IT und Software, Daten und Sicherheit, Internet und E-Commerce, Telekommunikation und Medien, Report und Technik) — tracked the digitalization: the data, the security, the e-commerce. The CRi addition — the English Computer Law Review International (every second month) — internationalized: the comparative law. The digital addition — the Beratermodul (advisory module), the Zeitschriften-App (the subscribers' unlock code) — mobilized: the smartphone, the tablet. The 2026 jurisprudence — the current issue's cases — deserves its telling. The EuGH geoblocking — "Keine öffentliche Wiedergabe bei wirksamen Geoblocking-Systemen" (no public performance with effective geoblocking) — treats the copyright's territory: the streaming. The LG Frankfurt AI — "Bearbeitung Lichtbildes mittels KI" (the photograph's AI editing) — addresses the generative: the image rights. The EuGH journalist privilege — "Kein Journalistenprivileg für kostenpflichtige Straftäterdatenbank" — limits the press: the data. The EuGH streaming withdrawal — "Widerrufsrecht bei Streamingdiensten" — protects the consumers: the contracts. The Google Android billion fine — "rechtskräftig" (final) — punishes the abuse: the competition. The BGH cancellation button — "Keine Kündigungsalternativen auf der Bestätigungsseite" — regulates the UX: the dark patterns. The cases' currency — the 2026 CR's R93–R98 — proves the journal: the IT law's pulse — the jurisprudence, monthly.

Coverage and Content

The editorial program follows the IT law's agenda. The IT-und-Software coverage — the software contracts, the copyright (the EuGH's geoblocking, the LG Frankfurt's AI image editing) — treats the code: the law. The Daten-und-Sicherheit coverage — the data protection (the EuGH's journalist privilege, the paid offender database) — guards the data: the privacy. The Internet-und-E-Commerce coverage — the platforms (the EuGH's streaming withdrawal right, the video platforms' liability privilege, the Google Android fine) — regulates the net: the commerce.

The Telekommunikation-und-Medien coverage — the networks, the media — covers the infrastructure: the communication. The rubric structure — the five departments — deserves its telling. The IT und Software — the code's law: the contracts, the copyright. The Daten und Sicherheit — the data's law: the protection, the security. The Internet und E-Commerce — the net's law: the platforms, the commerce. The Telekommunikation und Medien — the networks' law: the communication. The Report und Technik — the practice's news: the reports. The earlier four — Computerrecht, Telekommunikationsrecht, Medienrecht, Report — evolved: the data, the security, the e-commerce added. The structure's logic — the technology's fields — organizes the jurisprudence: the IT law's map — the readers' navigation — the monthly's architecture. The CRi coverage — the English international — compares the jurisdictions: the solutions. The Buchbesprechungen — the book reviews — serve the library: the literature.

Organization and Ownership

Computer und Recht is published by the Verlag Dr. Otto Schmidt KG, Gustav-Heinemann-Ufer 58, 50968 Cologne — the RWS specialist's legal journal. The Schriftleitung — the experts' board — deserves its telling. RA Dr. Malte Grützmacher, LL.M. (London) — Hamburg — the IT-law practitioner. RA Prof. Niko Härting — Berlin — the data-protection professor. RA Sven-Erik Heun — Frankfurt — the technology lawyer. RA Thomas Heymann — Frankfurt — the IT contracts. RA Prof. Dr. Jochen Schneider — Munich — the software law. RA Prof. Dr. Fabian Schuster — Düsseldorf — the IP/IT. Prof. Dr. Indra Spiecker gen. Döhmann, LL.M. (Georgetown) — the public-law informatics. The responsible editor — RA Ulrich Gasper, LL.M. (Edinburgh) (02 21/9 37 38-1 80, computerundrecht@otto-schmidt.de) — and Veronika Schindhelm (the editorial assistant) — run the monthly: the Cologne newsroom. The board's breadth — the practice and the academia, the cities — guarantees the quality: the IT law's expertise — the journal's authority. The Otto Schmidt house — the Cologne RWS specialist — publishes the legal-economic journals: the CR, the Corporate Finance (since 2021), Der Betrieb.

The business model follows the legal-press pattern: the subscriptions (713 euros annually, the DGRI's Vorzugspreis), the advertising (selective), the modules (the Beratermodul), the app. The subscription economics — the specialist's price — deserves its telling. The 713-euro annual price (plus 38.60 shipping, the beck-shop's 2026 listing) — the "lieferbar, ca. 10 Tage" — positions the journal: the professional's investment. The 12-month minimum — the 6-week year-end cancellation — binds the readers: the continuity. The DGRI preferential — the members' Vorzugspreis — rewards the society: the loyalty. The bundle — the Beratermodul (advisory module), the Zeitschriften-App, the CRi — justifies the price: the value. The §15 FAO — the self-study contributions (the Fachanwalt's continuing education) — adds the utility: the specialist lawyer's training. The 1,500 sold copies — the circulation — reflect the niche: the IT law's specialists — the journal's sustainable economics — the quality's price. Detailed revenue figures are not publicly confirmed.

Digital Presence

The journal's digital home is cr-online.de: the IT-law news, the articles, the archive. The Otto Schmidt online — the "Neue Inhalte in Otto Schmidt online" — distributes the content: the platform. The Zeitschriften-App — the subscribers' unlock code — mobilizes the reading: the smartphone, the tablet. The Beratermodul — the advisory module — serves the practice: the research.

The digital strategy follows the legal logic: the print monthly for the deep IT-law coverage — the jurisprudence, the analyses — the online and the app for the currency and the mobility. As the IT-law journal — the 1985-founded monthly, published by Otto Schmidt — Computer und Recht remains the profession's standard: the scientific dimension, the practical preparation — monthly in print, daily on cr-online.de.