With the Data Act the eighth Münster Colloquium on 11/12 January 2024 focused on a new EU legal act, which came into force on precisely this date. The act represents a milestone in the emerging law of the European data economy. Presentations and panel contributions from academia, politics and business explored the significance of this new piece of legislation for European private law and for the further development of the data economy in the Union.

With a practical perspective, this book deals with the EU's new data act, which contains standardised, directly applicable rules for fair access to data and the use of data. This data law is of central importance for the data economy and for all lawyers who deal with matters of data law. The contributions in this volume are based on one of the first expert events on this topic, which gathered representatives from the law, legal practice, business and politics. The focus is on mandatory data exchange in the triangle 'data holder - user - data recipient', voluntary data exchange on a bilateral basis and cloud contracts. With contributions by Leonard Bodemann | Damian Boeselager | Prof. Dr. Georg Borges | Marwan El-Rifaai | Prof. Dr. Moritz Hennemann, M. Jur. (Oxon.) | Johannes Jaenicke | Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kerber | Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lohsse | Victor Mehnert | Univ.-Prof. Dr. phil. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell | PD Dr. jur. Andreas Sattler, LL.M. (Nottingham) | Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reiner Schulze | Prof. Dr. Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider | Hon.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Staudenmayer | Univ.-Prof. Dr. Christiane Wendehorst, LL.M. (Cantab.) | Prof. Dr. Herbert Zech