CODG 130 - Legal and Ethical Issues in GIS and Digital Data

Course Description

The advent of digital data and the transmission and manipulation of that data, especially in an Internet environment, have raised some particular legal, ethical, and practical issues. This course explores those issues concerning the use of digital data and software, including the liability of misinformation and the responsibility for errors, contractual provisions and exclusionary clauses, copyright, trademark law and ownership of data and software, privacy and the ability to access information and data, as well as the issues related to the introduction of digital data and information as evidence in court proceedings.

Requisites

Prerequisites: (CODG 100 or CODG 101) and (CODG 110 or CODG 102)

Relevant Programs

Applied Digital Geography and GIS : Electives – Group B (select 2 or 3)
Ethics : Electives – Group B (select 3 not previously taken in Electives – Group A)