Networks and Liberties

Privacy and Informatic Freedom

EU: Reccomendations for Data Protection

• Data uses and purposes

• Information in the data collection process

• Consent of the affected person or entity

• Data calcellation

• Data on Health and sexual life

• Data access by Third

• Data communication

• International flux of data

• Data security

• P3P platform for privacy preferences

• Cookies and personal data

• EU data protection directive

Informatic crimes

Public security vs. secret communications

Patrimonial and moral rights in the Digital Era

Legal protection of sotware and digital contents

On-line contracts 

• Cross-border formation of online contracts 

• Pre-contractual requirements: identity, capacity, and representation of the parties.

• Representation

• Contract formation: identifying offer and acceptance

• Contract formation through electronic agents

• Electronic signature

• Patents, Trade marks and domain names in Internet

• EU: New Copyright directiv

-          Website 

-          Cache memory

-          Private copies

-          On-demand services

-          Agents use

-          Peer to Peer services (P2P) (Napster)

-          Technical strategies for content protection

-          Clickwrap

-          Database Protection

-          Linking and reusing content

• Electronic means of payment

• Financial services: distance marketing

  - Credit cards
  - Electronic money
  - EU Directive

   

• Consumers protection

- General conditions of contracts
- Excluded contracts
- Basic provisions
- Payment by card

• Ethical issues

Law and Computer Science

Law Databases
Thesaurus and documental techniques
e-Government
Expert systems in Law
Legal Expert Systems
Representation of Legal Knowledge
Applications of Machine Learning to Law
Case-Based reasoning
Conceptual Information Retrieval
Intelligent Legal Tutoring Systems
Cryptography
Methodologies for security information systems development
Access control techniques
Multilevel security
Personal data protection
Information systems risk analysis
Techniques in modelling secure information systems
Security in databases
Security in datawarehouses
Security in DSS
Security in web information systems
Secure information systems architectures
Standards for information systems security.
Certification of security in information technology

Law in Internet

• Digital hiring

• Digital signature and electronic document

• Security of Information Systems

• Networking

• Sovereignty and fiscality in Internet

• International perspective: OCDE

• EU: VAT and e-commerce

• Organization and government of Internet

E-commerce

• International private law and B2B contracts

• Domain names and Trademarks

• .eu Domain Name Iniciative

• Domain names and trade marks: Nature of the conflict (Infringement of a Trade Mark and Passing Off (UK), Cybersquatting, Typosquatting, etc).

• A global view of Trade Markds: Paris Convention and Madrid Protocol

• Competence

• Marketplaces B2B

• Anti-jail rules

• Abuse of Dominant Position

• Control of Concentrations in joint venture cases

• Distribution agreements and E-commerce

• Advertising in Internet and e-commerce

• Directives on E-commerce

• Metatags. Search Engine Promotion (Metatags, Force search, reactive banners, etc.)

• Comparative advertising in the EU

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