Target level of study
Master's degree
ECTS
120 credits
Duration
2 years
Training structure
Faculty of Law and Political Science
Presentation
Intellectual Property Law
- Master's Degree in Intellectual Property and Digital Law
Academic Director: Agnès Robin
Objectives
This Master's program is designed for anyone who is passionate about creation and communication and who wants to understand the legal issues and mechanisms involved.
It is the act of creation, as well as the fruit of that act, that are at the heart of the issues addressed in the Master's program in Intellectual Property and Digital Law.
The subject matter of the law is intellectual creation, and the mechanisms for understanding it are those of intellectual property law, conceived as a special law that nevertheless interacts with the principles of common law (liability law, special contract law, property law, etc.). What matters is creation, whether traditional or new: transformative creations, musical or olfactory trademarks, plant varieties, trade secrets, etc. – creation faced with contemporary questions and challenges: online dissemination of hateful content, illegal downloading, filtering and net neutrality, collaborative platforms,open data, open innovation, open source, etc.
Program
The master's degree program lasts two years and four semesters, during which students will acquire several skills:
GENERAL SKILLS
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DIGITAL LAW SKILLS
PRE-PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
CROSS-CUTTING SKILLS (IP/IT)
SKILLS IN DIGITAL LAW (IT)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Cross-cutting
The teaching approach is therefore intended to be cross-disciplinary and covers all areas of intellectual property. The following topics are addressed:
- copyright,
- the rights of performers,
- design law,
- patent law,
- trademark law,
- plant variety rights,
- and finally database rights.
This approach is linked to a practical reality that shows that a legal situation is rarely confined to one area of intellectual property. There are necessary overlaps that require specialist lawyers to have a thorough understanding of how the various mechanisms interact. For example, it would be inconceivable to consider analyzing a case relating to design or ready-to-wear clothing without also taking into account copyright, design law, and trademark law.
Digitization
The training philosophy is also comprehensive in this era of dematerialization of media: for example, genetic resources are just as much as museum works intended to be integrated into digital databases that can then be circulated via communication networks...
Intellectual property law is therefore now necessarily and closely linked to information and communication technology (ICT) law or digital law. The various projects involving digital libraries or the dissemination of scientific information in open science are concrete and current examples of this. Beyond that, it is the dissemination of information that also attracts attention, both in terms of its implications for liability (particularly that of technical service providers) and with regard to the protection of personal data.
Ubiquity
Finally, as an intangible object, intellectual creation has a ubiquitous dimension, reinforcedby the digital revolution, which complicates the application of national (or territorial) rules and therefore requires knowledge of the rules of public and private international law. Specialized lawyers are therefore also confronted with the international dimension of intellectual property and must, in particular, have a thorough understanding of European Union sources.
- Is the online counterfeiting of a trademark via an online sales site or e-commerce platform accessible from France governed by French law or by another jurisdiction?
- Which court has jurisdiction when the offense occurs in multiple locations?
All these issues justify the fact that the training program places significant emphasis on both international law and procedural law specific to intellectual property law, which it does.
Calendar for the year
► September1 to October1: in-company training
► October1 to December 15: academic training
► December 16 to January 14: in-company training
► January 17 to March 31: academic training
► April1 to August 31: in-company training
Select a program
Master's Degree in Intellectual Property and Digital Law
Here, there is no chapel, no "religious war": patent versus copyright or copyright versus copyright... What matters is creation, whether classic or new: transgenic animals and "chimeras," opera or multimedia creations, musical trademarks, olfactory trademarks, plant varieties as commercial "tricks"... – creation confronted with contemporary questions and challenges: the internet, digital creations, promoting research... With teachers from universities, the CNRS, the Bar, and businesses, from France and elsewhere.
The teaching approach is therefore intended to be global and cross-disciplinary in this era of dematerialized media: for example, genetic resources are just as much as museum works intended to be integrated and circulated within digital databases... Intellectual property law is therefore now necessarily and closely linked to communication law.
Initially a Research Master 's degree, and after three years of combining the two tracks (research/professional), the Master 2 "Intellectual Property Law and ICT" is now becoming a Professional Master's degree. The emphasis will thus be placed even more on developing partnerships with practitioners of intellectual property law (lawyers, companies, institutions, collective management organizations, research establishments, etc.) and communication law (communication companies, software companies, internet rights forums, etc.).
This change does not call into question our desire to reconcile theoretical reflection and practical application, which, as always in most of our legal disciplines, enrich each other. The reconciliation of the two approaches also gives our students the opportunity to pursue research work in the form of a thesis, if they wish and provided they have the necessary qualities. In order to give them the opportunity to demonstrate their appetite for research, each student will be required to write a research paper.
And, in order to give them the chance to enter the world of work, students will have the opportunity to complete a three-month internship with a training partner or of their choice, provided that the internship focuses on intellectual property and/or communication law issues.
EU EU business law
5 creditsInsolvency Law Group 2 (ST)
Intellectual property law (ST)
EU Distribution Department
6 creditsPublic Digital Law (ST)
EU Professional Integration
Choose one of two options:
Internship
4 creditsResearch report
Private digital law (ST)
Optional
Intellectual property practice
8 creditsIntellectual property agreements
7 creditsEuropean and international IP law
6 creditsSubstantive and procedural law relating to counterfeiting
6 credits"Legal professions" PIX
3 credits
Thesis/Supervised project
Choose one of two options:
Memory
4 creditsSupervised project
EU of choice
Choose one of two options:
Online communication law (actors, instruments, etc.)
7 creditsLanguage - IP/IT Law
E-commerce law (players, instruments, and contracts)
7 creditsInnovation management and strategies
6 credits