77793 Information Technology Law

Requisite(s): 77885 Legal Process and Legal Research OR 60 credit points of completed study in C04148 Master of Law and Legal Practice

These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.

There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

This subject looks at current laws affecting information technology. Students also consider future developments to deal with new forms of intellectual property rights related to computing and electronic data transmission.

Students examine the need for management to consider risk management of computer projects, and look at the problems posed by computer abuse and fraud for the legal system. There is particular emphasis on the importance of law to the development of the high technology and computer industries for the future, both in an international and a national context.

Topics studied include:

• the principals of intellectual property rights that underlie IT assets
• the principal ways in which IT-related assets are exploited commercially
• the principal regulatory regimes that have evolved in Australia in relation to IT products and services
• the developments in criminal law that have accompanied the development of IT.