Master of Intellectual Property and Digital Law

Here, no chapel, no "religious war": patent versus copyright or copyright versus copyright... It is creation that matters, classic creations or creations of a new kind: transgenic animals and "chimeras", opera or multimedia creations, musical brands, olfactory brands, plant varieties as commercial "tricks"... - creation confronted with contemporary questions and challenges: the Internet, digital creations, research valorization... With teachers from the University, the CNRS, the Bar or the business world, from France and elsewhere.

The teaching approach is thus always global and transversal at a time of dematerialization of media: for example, genetic resources are as much as museum works destined to be integrated and circulated within digital databases... Intellectual property law is therefore now necessarily and intimately linked to communication law.

Initially a Research Master's degree, and after having combined the two courses (research/pro) for three years, the Master 2 "Intellectual Property Law and ICT" is now transformed into a Pro Master's degree. The emphasis will thus be placed even more on the development of partnerships with practitioners of intellectual property law (lawyers, companies, institutions, collective management societies, research establishments, etc.) and communication law (communication and software companies, Internet rights forum, etc.)

This transformation does not call into question our desire to reconcile theoretical reflection and practical application which, as always in most of our legal disciplines, are mutually enriching. The conciliation of the two approaches leaves, moreover, the possibility for our students to pursue, if they wish and provided they have the necessary qualities, a research work in the form of a thesis. In order to give them the opportunity to demonstrate their research skills, 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 partner of the program or of their choice, provided that the internship is focused on intellectual property and/or communication law issues.