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.