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[ 926WIREINRV14 ] VL IT Law

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Workload Education level Study areas Responsible person Hours per week Coordinating university
4,5 ECTS M1 - Master's programme 1. year Business Informatics Martin Stabauer 3 hpw Johannes Kepler University Linz
Detailed information
Original study plan Master's programme Business Informatics 2025W
Learning Outcomes
Competences
Students have in-depth knowledge of the legal framework conditions in the decision-making fields relevant to business informatics. They can solve simple legal questions and problems themselves. They have the ability to assess alternative technical and organizational solutions with regard to their legal implications and can implement legally compliant solutions in cooperation with legal experts.
Skills Knowledge
  • LO2: Linking highly specialized knowledge from other modules with newly acquired specific knowledge from relevant legal fields (K4).
  • LO3: Independently solve simple legal questions and problems (K3).
  • LO4: Evaluate alternative technical and organizational solutions with regard to their legal implications (K5) and develop and implement legally compliant solutions in cooperation with legal experts (K6).
LO1: Students have advanced knowledge of legal framework conditions in the decision-making fields relevant to business informatics: Legal issues of IT application systems - copyright for software, open source, software patents, databases; specific problems of web-based IT systems - domains, copyright of multimedia documents, download vs. streaming, e-mail and newsletter distribution; Persons as IT objects - freedom of information vs. data protection; Internet of Things - the importance of data in the value chain; Platform economy and new digital business models and their anchoring in law - Applicable law, country of origin principle; Digital means of payment - From Bitcoin to the digital euro? Digital identity - cybersecurity and digital signatures; Social media - Necessary, superfluous or dangerous? Facts vs fakes; Artificial Intelligence - AI Act: a barrier to competition or a driver of innovation?
Criteria for evaluation Examination (open book)
Methods Multi-media lecture and guided independent study (readings will be provided).
Language German
Study material Reading:

  • Burgstaller, P.; Hadeyer, Ch.: Recht in der Informationsgesellschaft. LEX:ITEC, current edition.
  • Jaburek W. J.: Handbuch der EDV-Verträge. Band 1, Verlag Medien und Recht, current edition.
  • Laga, G.; Sehrschön, U.; Ciresa, M.: E-Commerce Gesetz: Praxiskommentar. LexisNexis ARD Orac, current edition.
  • Sonntag, M.: E-Business Recht: Eine Einführung für Informatiker. Trauner Verlag, current edition.

Reading material (pdf files) will be available for students online (basic law as well as book and journal articles).

Supplementary material will be announced each semester.

Changing subject? No
Further information VL and UE IT Law form an inseparable didactic unit. The learning outcomes described are achieved through the interaction of both.
Earlier variants They also cover the requirements of the curriculum (from - to)
2WFIRVO: VL IT Law (2011W-2014S)
On-site course
Maximum number of participants 200
Assignment procedure Assignment according to priority