Master 2024/2025

Contractual Legal Aspects of Software Commercialization

Type: Elective course (Digital Law )

Area of studies: Law

Delivered by: School of Digital Law and Bio-Law

Where: Faculty of Law

When: 1 year, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Instructors: Alexander Savelyev

Master’s programme: Цифровое право

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 24

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "Legal aspects of Software Development and Commercialization" is an elective course of the Master's Program "Digital Law". The purpose of the discipline is an in-depth study of the issues arising in the process of conclusion and execution of agreements related to the development and commercialization of software. Particular attention is paid to the practical aspects of software license agreements, software development agreements, the use of open source components under various open licenses, SaaS services and Smart contracts. The discipline involves consideration of the most relevant and problematic aspects of software commercialization in the framework of seminars to show students the main approaches used in practice, their advantages and disadvantages. The study of this discipline assumes a deep knowledge of civil law and private international law.