Master of 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, new plant varieties as commercial "tricks"... - creation confronted with contemporary questions and challenges: the Internet, digital creations, valorization of research... With teachers from the University, the CNRS, the Bar or business, from France and abroad.

For example, genetic resources are just as likely as museum works to be integrated and circulated within digital databases... Intellectual property law is now necessarily and intimately linked to communication law.

Initially a Research Master's degree, and after three years of combining the two courses (research/pro), the Master 2 "Intellectual Property Law and ICT" has now been transformed into a Professional Master's degree. The emphasis will be on developing partnerships with practitioners in the fields of intellectual property law (lawyers, companies, institutions, collecting societies, research establishments, etc.) and communications law (communications and software companies, Internet rights forums, 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 reconciliation of the two approaches also leaves open the possibility for our students to pursue, if they so wish and provided they have the necessary qualifications, a research project in the form of a thesis. To give them the opportunity to demonstrate their aptitude for research, each student will be required to write a research dissertation.

And to give them the chance to enter the world of work, students will be offered a three-month internship with a partner of their choice, provided the internship focuses on intellectual property and/or communications law.