Furthermore, the institute's tasks consist of the representation of information, telecommunication and media law in academics and further training.

Whereas formerly goods and services were the main focus, today intangible assets like know-how, data collections, experience and ideas have gained increasing economic importance.

Information society is a term used to describe the modern world, where images, texts and sounds are linked digitally.

Most notably in terms of civil law, there are great difficulties in determining who certain data belongs to as well as in defining the individual rights involved in that ownership.

This area deals with changes in the legal professions (e.g. judges, lawyers in the private sector and those in public administration) due to the use of electronic data processing.