IT Law

The heading IT law is intended to provide you with a short overview of this field and briefly set out and explain the relevant legal problems.

IT law is the short form of information technology law or information law, and can be described in a nut shell as law relating to electronic data processing. This legal area, which has in the meantime become autonomous, is to be regarded as interdisciplinary, including aspects of different fields of law which have special significance for information technology.

In the last few years the Internet has increasingly gained importance as a medium of information. However the net is not an area immune from prosecution: laws and regulations apply here just as much as outside the Internet. It is therefore increasingly important for the Internet user to come to terms with the existing general legal conditions. The possibilities that the Internet offers the user, as well as the popularity of the medium itself, have increased so rapidly that it has not been possible for legislators to regulate this development in a comprehensive body of laws.