Technical Forum Group on Law and Electronic Agents (TFG-LEA)
Scope and aims of the TFG activity
As electronic agents enter the information environment and electronic marketplaces, they engage in a number of activities which are significant for the law: accessing computer systems and networks, retrieving and spreading information, mediating personal and business relations, buying and selling information, mediating personal and business relations, buying and selling material and immaterial goods, etc.
Through such activities agents may trigger off relevant consequences for their users, owners and developers, as well as their counter-parties, consequences pertaining to different areas of the law, such as contract, tort, civil and penal liability, intellectual property and data protection.
How to legally conceptualise and regulate agent-based interactions is both a stimulating theme for lawyers and legal theorists, and a crucial issue for the success of agent-based applications and the secure and trustworthy development of the information society. On the other hand, agent-based interactions can be governed according to legal models based upon the theory of norms and normative relations.
The TFG-LEA aims at providing a forum for investigating the law of electronic agents, taking into account the most recent advances in the study of autonomous agents and MAS, as well as the societal, economic and legal framework in which agent-based systems are employed, developing a constant co-operation between lawyers and computer scientists.
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