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Lecture by Dr Stefan Haupt, Professor of Copyright Law at the HGB, as part of the lecture series "Transsubstantiations - Transformations between money and the Eucharist in the tripodal cauldron of science, art and religion" at the University of Tübingen.

For thousands of years, "money" has been an almost "acquisitive" medium of communication in many respects - of material exchange, of the economy in particular and in general. "Money", the "filthy lucre", shows itself historically as a place of appearance of cultures and phases of history. We are initially dealing with purely intellectual, yet historically eminently effective processes of "transubstantiation".

Related to those in the emergence of a work of art or of creation in general - that the material gains a new, relevant meaning of its own and this now becomes the decisive one in theory and practice.

Reinforced by the advance of IT, new forms of money that intervene in economic and political processes, such as "cryptocurrency", are currently emerging and the dominance of AI has already led to a phase in which money in the traditional sense is being replaced by pure data. Or, to paraphrase G.W. F. Hegel, "a form of life has become old".

This lecture series, with the participation of various disciplines, aims to reflect not only on the "essence" of money, but also on the currently emerging questions regarding the organisation of the exchange of material values in a broad spectrum of subjects and disciplines.