This course is designed to provide web personnel with an overview of the current legal issues facing websites today. Topics include information security, copyright and trademark laws, and social issues relating to cyberspace including privacy, obscenity, and defamation. This course is 6 weeks long.
Applicable Job Roles: webmasters and web content managers.
There are no additional software requirements for the course. The students' systems should be Internet ready and capable of surfing the web in a timely fashion. Students should have basic computer skills and be able to download files, copy/paste, locate files on their hard drive, use attachments, etc.