ECT 585 Legal Aspects of E-Commerce

This course is focused on how the law affects e-commerce. Topics include: electronic contracts, privacy issues associated with the use of the Internet, security issues including digital signatures, encryption and biometrics, intellectual property issues including trademark/domain name conflicts, copyrights, patents for business methods, taxation of internet transactions. Students will also gain an understanding of the issues involved in taking a company public (IPO), what information venture capitalists (VC) require in order to make decisions regarding financing startup companies. Prerequisite: ECT 455.