Information Technology Law

1. The emerging information society; 2. Internet regulation and the rise, fall and rise of .com; 3. Privacy technology and the law; 4. The emergence of data protection; 5. The scope of data protection; 6. Supervision of data users; 7. The data protection principles; 8. Individual rights and remedies; 9. Sectoral aspects of data protection; 10. Transborder data flows; 11. Emerging legal responses to computer crime; 12. Computer fraud and the move to computer specific legislation; 13. The Computer Misuse Act 1990; 14. Theft of information; 15. Internet and Computer pornography; 16. Detecting and prosecuting computer crime; 17. Intellectual property law; 18. Key elements of the patent system; 19. Patents and software; 20. Copyright protection; 21. Copyright in the information society; 22. Protection of databases; 23. Trademark issues; 24. Protection of semiconductor chip designs; 25. Competition, standards and intellectual property; 26. Contractual liability for defective software; 27. Non-contractual liability; 28. International and European initiatives in e-commerce; 29. Cryptography, electronic signatures and the Electronic Communications Act 2000; 30. Tax and the Internet; 31. Defamation