Legal Issues for the Information Technology Professional (MIS662)

The course is a study of every major area of law that has an impact on the IT professional. The focus of the course is on issues pertaining to electronic commerce and other technology-intensive business practices. The course discusses basic commercial law, jurisdictional issues and the contracting environment for online activity, including UCITA, intellectual property law, domain names, the protection of databases, privacy and publicity rights, and government regulation, including content based restrictions,criminal law, and the prospective taxation of electronic commerce. The goal of the course is to provide basic background in these issues for non-lawyers. The course enables information technology managers to better handle their legal resources and better understand their commercial opportunities.