04th Feb 2026
IT Law 2026 – Between bits, Paragraphs and digital responsibility

IT Law 2026 – Between bits, Paragraphs and digital responsibility

When Max opens his laptop on a Monday morning, one thing is certain: His day becomes digital again. Apps, Cloud Services, Contract platforms, User data – everything moves online. But where there is a lot of data, Legal obligations are also not far away. Welcome to IT law 2026 – the area of ​​law, that secures digital business models, Risks minimized and innovations enabled. A brief look back – where IT law comes from At the beginning of the 2000s, IT law was still considered a “fringe topic”: Websites, E-Mails, simple online shops. Legal questions revolved around provider liability or data protection as a side issue. But digitalization has changed everything: Cloud-Computing und Software as a Service (SaaS) became the standard. Mobile Apps, Platform economies, digital automation is everyday life. Data is economic asset no. 1...

09th Dec 2013
The IT contract in legal practice

The IT contract in legal practice

IT contracts must be designed subject-specific, to ensure a legally sound imaging of the underlying IT project. Here, the subject matter of the main contract plays a central role; it's about the software, Hardware, Databases, IT Systeme und / oder TK-Systeme, or concrete sub-areas. Individual IT contracts / large projects This begins with individual software or individual projects with the planning- and design phase, in the preparation of specifications and requirement specifications decisive course for avoiding a definitive rift between IT vendors and IT and contracting is to ensure. After creating and decrease the IT project is – provided that the IT project does not fail prematurely – then maintained the software usually and therefore accompanied by a Wartungs-/Service-/Pflegevertrag, an escrow Vetrag on the deposit of source code ...