E-Business-Law

Learning Outcomes

This course will familiarise students with Business over the Internet is becoming more and more common and even the most traditional businesses are finding that they must offer an Internet service to remain competitive. E-business is a new and unusual environment that creates a variety of new legal problems and interesting twists on old problems. E-business Law addresses the commercial law issues arising from carrying on a business over the Internet. It not only examines traditional law in a new setting, but the new laws that are needed to deal with the special problems that online businesses create.

Topics

1. A brief history of information technology and the Internet
2. Legal issues arising from E-business and the Internet
3. Contractual Liability for defective hardware and software
4. Terms of the Internet contract
5. Exclusion of liability
6. Unfair Contract Terms Directive
7. Mistakes on the website
8. Basic structure of e-business regulation
9. Taxation problems on the Internet
10. Criminal liability
11. Electronic contracting, online agreement and payment
12. Managing and enforcing rights on the internet and litigation