1. Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit

2. Fundamental and applied research in the field of
I. Principal objective :
Fundamental and applied research
in the field of
information and communication technologies.

3. The Team
Since 1979 CRID has brought together a unique interdisciplinary team of researchers, who now number about thirty, to carry out research in the field of information and communication technologies from :
legal
socio-economic perspectives
technical

4. II.The main areas of research
Electronic commerce and network law
Legal computer sciences
Regulation and political economy of telecommunications
Protection of products services and communication
Privacy, access and freedom in society

5. First area of research Electronic Commerce and Network Law
contract law, liability and evidence
commercial, financial and taxation law
commercial practices and consumer protection

6. An example of current project
(Electronic-Commerce Legal Issues Platform)
the project sets up a platform on the legal issues of electronic commerce with the objective of providing legal support to EC-funded RTD projects on any issue of law linked to electronic commerce.

7.  Protection of products, services and communications
2th area of research
 Protection of products, services and communications
intellectual property law in computer software
databases and multimedia works
security
computer crime and cryptography

8. An example of current project
In the Coordinating Project for Electronic Authors Rights Management Systems, the CRID has analysed the legal consequences of the use of Electronic Rights Management Systems (ERMS)

9. 3th area of research  Privacy,Access and Freedom in Society:
protection of personal data
electronic information democracy
access to information
commercialisation of public data

10. An example of current project
Study on the adequate protection in the case of transborder data flows.

11. institutional and regulatory aspects liberalisation and harmonisation
4th area of research
 Regulation and the political-economy of telecoms
institutional and regulatory aspects
liberalisation and harmonisation
universal service
convergence, concentration, pluralism

12. An example of current project
Analyse of the transposition in Belgium of the harmonisation and liberalisation of telecommunications Directives.

13. legal databases expert systems in law 5th area of research
 Legal Computer Sciences
legal databases
expert systems in law

14. III Financial Resources
Institutional means
PAI (Pôle d’attraction universitaire) and other federal programs.
Belgian public funds
Belgian public companies
Private companies

15. IV Documentation Centre
The CRID manages a documentation centre which contains more than 1500 monographs and over 30 specialised journals systematically itemised in a bibliographic database.
The documentation centre is open to the public

16. V. The postgraduate diploma
The University of Namur offers an interdisciplinary postgraduate diploma in the law and management of information and communication technologies (DGTIC).
The DGTIC has created its own publication, ‘Ubiquité’, to allow the students and searchers to publish their works.

17. CRID has generated its own publication :
VI. The publications
CRID has generated its own publication :
The ‘Cahiers’ with the aim of ensuring the publication of the result of the researches made by the Centre

18. VII. JuriTIC
Compact courses for lawyers in IT and communication law
From January to December 1999, will be offered 11modules of one day and a half dealing with :
legal computer sciences
intellectual property and IT
privacy and IT
fiscal system and IT
telecommunication regulation
contract law and IT

19. VIII How to contact us :
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