Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

discussions involving students. Moreover small practical exercises are elaborated by each
student or in groups.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
Skills:
• Appropriate understanding of the relevance and methodology of the law
• Ability to implement technical solutions according to legal requirements
• Ability to look up and interpret legal regulations
• General understanding of specic topics related to computer science from the view
of the Austrian legal system
Competences:
• Acquisition of a sense for legal issues in dierent sectors
• Generation of a general awareness for legal pitfalls
• Acquisition of basic legal knowledge for personal everyday concerns
Syllabus: Aspects of law, methodology, repetition of legal basics; Aspects of EU and
public international law; basic contract formation via internet (ABGB); e-commerce
law (ECG); the critical role of legal and contractual issues in (large) IT projects; e-
government law (E-GovG, ZustG); data privacy law (DSG); example: legal aspects in
the medical sector (AerzteG, KAKuG, GTelG); methodology of European new approach
directives (medical devices); aspects of intellectual property (IP) and copyright law;
trademark law, software copyright law; introduction to patent law; open source licenses
(GPL, LGPL, EuPL); IP-related contracting (licensing agreements, NDA, MoU, teaming
agreement); designing IT- project contracts; computer crime legislation; digital forensics,
digital preservation of evidence; security engineering and related legal issues
Expected Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of legal systematics and methods
The contents of the bachelor module WIN/RSI - Recht und Sicherheit .
Teaching and Learning Methods and Adequate Assessment of Performance: The module
is organized along lectures, exercises, research of solutions to legal issues by each student,
drafting a license contract in small groups.
Courses of Module:
6.0/4.0 VU Advanced Aspects of IT-Law
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