Law and E-Business

Catalog description

The course teaches students to conduct internet business in compliance with law and regulation. Ways in which e-businesses limit exposure to lawsuits by customers, observe privacy laws, and protect the business from lawsuits for mis-use,hacking, data-use and data breaches are addressed. The course also teaches how a business protects its innovations, intellectual property, and proprietarydata from infringement, focusing on copyright, patent, and trade secrecy law. Ways in which businesses protect their reputation, good will, and internet domain names using trademark law are covered.