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IT Law for Manager

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
X33PPM Z,ZK 4 3+1s Czech
Lecturer:
Zdeněk Vaníček (gar.)
Tutor:
Zdeněk Vaníček (gar.), Demlová Uznáno
Supervisor:
Department of Cybernetics
Synopsis:

Complex course dedicated to interdisciplinary problems - legal aspects of information systems including the Internet and aspects of computer crime, information handling in information systems, manipulation of electronic documents, electronic signature and intellectual property rights. Legal issues connected with the software business. Basic principles of Internet law. Computer and information criminality. Criminal acts in relating to computers, their components and to media, etc. Internet: criminal activities on the Internet, etc. Protection of competition. Electronic communications law and the protection of content.

Requirements:

For the successful completion of the course, it is required to present results of individual work assigned by a lecturer to other fellow-students and explain an approach used. 100% attendance of all seminars is obligatory. Final examinations are either a test or oral examination after a credit has been given.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to the course. Informatics and law. Information and informatics. Information society. Legal regulation of information. Right of access to information. National information and communications policy. Czech government programme.

2. Computer legislation and its relation to the Constitutional Law and to other legal branches. Formation of law and basic legislation rules.

3. Information systems and their components. Data and information. Information systems and informatics in public and private law. Technical and programming elements of information systems.

4. Information systems in public administration. Public administration and information systems. Legal aspects of state administration in connection with the Internet.

5. Electronic documents and signatures. Legal prerequisites of IT-processed documents. Electronic signature. Electronic Signature Act.

6. Personal data processing and the protection of personal data. Protection of Personal Data Act. Constitutional principles of the protection of privacy and personal data.

7. Law of electronic communications. Legal framework of telecommunications prior to 2000. Telecommunications Act and provisions in the execution of the act. Electronic Communications Act and provisions in the execution of the act. Relevant market analyses and legal instruments related to the Electronic Communications Act.

8. Broadcasting law. Radio and TV Operations Act. Czech TV and Czech Radio Acts. Conditional access and its legal protection. Protection of content.

9. The Internet and law. Subjects in internet law. Civil law obligations in connection with the Internet. Legal aspects of the Internet. Legal forces and organisation of the Internet, domain names, registered names. Contracts with providers, author protection, personality protection, telecommunication confidentiality.

10. Trade Code in IT and the Internet-contracts, responsibility, legal and contractual guarantees.

11. The Internet and administrative and penal law. Torts in connection with the Internet. Administrative law acts on-line. Criminal activities on the Internet, etc.

12. Protection of intellectual property in information technologies. Intellectual property. Copyright. Legal protection of software.

13. Protection of competition in ICT. Protection of Economic Competition Act.

14. Conclusion.

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Informatics and information systems in private and public law. Law relating to informatics. The Constitution of the Czech Republic. The Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms.

2. State power and its division. Legislation and legislative rules.

3. Information systems. Documentation, databases, electronic documents and electronic signatures. Legal validity of IT-processed documents. Protection of the individual and personal data.

4. ICT in the state administration.

5. Electronic documents and electronic signatures. Protection of personal data.

6. Relevant markets of electronic communications and their analyses.

7. Broadcasting. Information society services. Radio and TV operation law and act.

8. The Internet - contracts with providers, author protection, personality protection, criminal activities on the Internet.

9. Protection of intellectual property in information technologies. Copyright. Software.

10. Trade Code in ICT - contracts, responsibility, legal and contractual guarantees.

11. Competition law in ICT.

12. Conclusion of the course.

Study Objective:
Study materials:

Advisable literature is available in Czech only. English resources will be recommended directly by the lecturer.

Note:
Further information:
No time-table has been prepared for this course
The course is a part of the following study plans:
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