Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Have knowledge and ability to understand issues in the academic field of information law
- Use their knowledge and their ability to comprehend in practice , and to reinforce skills that have to be proven by developing and supporting arguments and solve practical problems in the field of information law
- Provide accurate information on information law issues and propose practical solutions to legal problems
- To have acquired those skills to further knowledge, which is necessary to proceed to postgraduate studies.
Course Content (Syllabus)
A. Introduction to Informatics law and Legal Methodology.
B. Protection of Digital Assets: 1. Introduction to IPR. The concept of works in Copyright Law. Original and Derivative Law. Property and moral rights of creators. Restrictions of property rights.
2. Software protection.
3. Legal protection of Databases,
4. Multimedia works and digital works (video & music files, e-books), digital libraries, peer-to-peer networks.
C. Contracts for Sofware, databases and Internet services. Creative commons.
D. Electronic commerce.
E. Personal data and privacy protection.
F. Electronic crimes
Keywords
information technology, intellectual property, personal data, e-crime, e-commerce
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1) Ι. Ιγγλεζάκης, Δίκαιο της Πληροφορικής, εκδ. Σάκκουλα, Θεσσαλονίκη 2008. Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον ΕΥΔΟΞΟ: 34427
2) Ε. Παπακωνσταντίνου, Δίκαιο Πληροφορικής, εκδ. Σάκκουλα, Θεσσαλονίκη 2010. Κωδικός Βιβλίου στον ΕΥΔΟΞΟ: 12564400