IT Law for Manager

Lecturer:

Zdeněk Vaníček (gar.)

Tutor:

Zdeněk Vaníček (gar.)

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:

• Heavy-current Engineering - Electroenergetics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Software Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - High-frequency and Microwave Technology- structured studi (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Technological Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Control Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Electronics - Electronic Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Economics and Management in Electrical Engineering- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Electronics - Electronics and Photonics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Artificial Intelligence- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Measurement and Instrumentation Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Cybernetics and Measurements - Aeronautical Engineering and Control Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electric Drives- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Heavy-current Engineering - Electrical Engineering Applications- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Opto-electric Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Radio Communications, Navigation and Radar Systems- struc (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Multimedia, Sound and Television Technology- structured s (compulsory elective course)
• Telecommunications and Radio-engineering - Telecommunications- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - System Programming- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Computer Graphics- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Computer Network and Internet- structured studies (compulsory elective course)
• Computer Technology - Designing Digital Systems- structured studies (compulsory elective course)