Monash University Handbook 2010 Undergraduate - Unit

Synopsis

The ease and manner in which information can now be transmitted, accessed and transacted around the world instantaneously by the interconnection of computers (the Internet); legal methods by which the law has attempted to regulate this 'flow' of information and its use in business and commerce will be explored. Contract law (in particular international and computer contracts), intellectual property (including copyright law) and privacy issues.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

• identify and analyse the international agreements establishing the internet
• analyse and apply the laws affecting Internet business transactions to a range of commercial situations
• compare and contrast the forms of regulation used by governments to regulate conduct on the internet
• identify, analyse and apply the laws providing protection to the Internet itself as a computer program.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 30%
Examination (3 hours, open-book): 70%

Chief examiner(s)

Gerald Acquaah-Gaisie

Contact hours

3 hours per week on-campus and/or intensive mode over summer (both 39 hours in total)

Prerequisites

BTW1200

Prohibitions

BTC3640, BTF3641, LAW7213