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Module details
CO841 Computing Law, Contracts and Professional Responsibility (15 credits)
Syllabus
- Topics in professional issues and professional responsibilities.
- The roles of professional organisations.
- How legal system function and how they affect and are affected by developments in technology.
- Privacy issues including especially data privacy legislation, and other laws relating to the professional use of computer systems in the UK, the EU and other international jurisdictions.
- Criminal law relating to networked computer use, including Anti-Terrorism legislation.
- Internet governance.
- Jurisdiction, sovereignty and globalisation.
- Intellectual Property Rights, including Copyright, Patent and explicit IPR Legislation.
- Contract Law, with a specific focus on vendor-client contracts.
- Health & Safety issues.
Note
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