Law in the Digital Age - LAWS3431
Faculty: Faculty of Law
School: Faculty of Law
Course Outline: See below
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Restricted to students enrolled in Legal Studies. Academic Program must be either 4055 or 3408 or 4054 or 4053
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course will give students an overview of the operation of new media and communications services under Australian law, examining both the legal requirements and the policy reasoning behind the way in which media, data, telecommunications and communications are regulated.
Main Topics
Main Topics
- how laws are made, changed, interpreted and enforced, with cybercrime among the examples
- laws governing licensing, ownership and control of telecommunications, radiocommunications and broadcasting enterprises, and whether these laws are appropriate and effective to deal with new technologies and services;
- electronic commerce and what it means for business, consumers and the community;
- restrictions on media and online content, including classification and censorship, and regulation of content; and
- protecting intellectual property and reputation, covering copyright, trademarks, and defamation
- how legal enforcement and regulatory modes change under the impact of the mass personalisation, ubiquitous publishing, Social Networking and User Generated Content features of Web 2.0
- impact of the online giants' cult of "Disruption"/"Forgiveness not Permission" on the rule of law online.
- digital surveillance and tracking law
- Issues around "Open data', Big data, and their use in artificial intelligence and machine learning online
- new modes of legal services which arise in response to these challenges
More information can be found on the Course Outline Website.
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