SKW Schwarz contributes to Bitkom manual “Legal aspects of Industry 4.0”

Bitkom Trade Association has published the manual “Legal Aspects of Industry 4.0” in a preliminary version. Martin Schweinoch, Chairman of the Bitkom working group “ITC Contract and Legal Design” and Head of the IT & Digital Business department of law firm SKW Schwarz also contributed to the manual.

The Bitkom manual deals with numerous legal issues in connection with Industry 4.0 such as rights of use of data, data protection, IT security, protection of intellectual property, binding statements, and contract conclusions by machines as well as liability issues. It offers initial recommendations for action, even if the legal discussion and clarification of many issues is still ongoing.

Martin Schweinoch, who led the working group in drafting the publication, comments: “The manual offers an initial orientation for companies, which want to tap into the potentials of Industry 4.0. I am glad that a group of qualified lawyers at Bitkom is dealing so intensively with these forward-looking issues.”

The preliminary version of the Bitkom manual is already available for free download at: https://www.bitkom.org/Publikationen/2016/Leitfaden/Rechtliche-Aspekte-von-Industrie-40/Bitkom-Leitfaden-Rechtliche-Aspekte-von-Industrie-4-0.pdf