Specialist Certificate · Master's level · CPS-27

Cybercrime and Protection of Intangible Assets

For: In-house lawyers, information systems or security managers, rights managers and compliance officers who protect their organisation's digital and intangible assets.

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Organisation over 20 weeks

Four 5-week blocks (4 weeks of classes, 1 week of assessment). The two course units are taken unchanged from the original degree: same content, same assessments.

Blocks 1 and 2 (weeks 1 to 10): CYJ 421 — Cybercrime and Digital Criminal Law
Blocks 3 and 4 (weeks 11 to 20): PIN 423 — Intellectual Property and Digital Intangible Assets

CYJ 421 - Cybercrime and Digital Criminal Law

To master the substantive and procedural criminal law applicable to digital offences, and the role of digital evidence, in order to advise an organisation that is a victim or is implicated.

Learning outcomes

Determine the criminal classification of facts related to information and communication technologies.
Analyse the procedural rules applicable to digital investigations and digital evidence.
Explain regional and international cooperation mechanisms on cybercrime.
Apply the rules on the integrity and preservation of digital evidence.

Content

Loi n°2008-11 du 25 janvier 2008 portant sur la cybercriminalité (Cybercrime Act): general structure.
Loi n°2016-29 du 8 novembre 2016 modifiant la loi n°65-60 du 21 juillet 1965 portant Code pénal (Act amending the Criminal Code), which groups together offences related to information and communication technologies: typology and constituent elements, studied on the text itself.
Loi n°2016-30 du 8 novembre 2016 modifiant le Code de procédure pénale (Act amending the Code of Criminal Procedure): applicable procedural rules, studied on the text itself.
Digital evidence: integrity, preservation, traceability, expert examination; exercises in a virtual laboratory on fictitious data, without offensive operational content.
Regional and international cooperation: directive CEDEAO C/DIR/1/08/11 (ECOWAS Directive), Budapest Convention (Senegal's accession in December 2016), Malabo Convention.
Actors: Division spéciale de cybersécurité (Special Cybersecurity Division), CERT-SN, DCSSI; interaction with the judicial authority.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): marked practical work on evidence preservation in a virtual laboratory. Written final examination (60%): criminal classification and procedural strategy for a case. Same arrangements for both cohorts.

PIN 423 - Intellectual Property and Digital Intangible Assets

To protect and add value to an organisation's intangible assets in the digital environment: works, software, databases, industrial property titles and know-how.

Learning outcomes

Apply loi n°2008-09 (Copyright and Related Rights Act) to digital creations and their online exploitation.
Explain the role of collective management and of SODAV.
Identify the industrial property titles available in the OAPI area and their procedures.
Develop a strategy to protect and add value to an organisation's portfolio of intangible assets.

Content

Loi n°2008-09 du 25 janvier 2008 sur le droit d'auteur et les droits voisins: protected subject matter, rights holders, rights and exceptions, studied on the text itself; application to software and digital creations.
Collective management: SODAV's tasks; online exploitation of works.
Accord de Bangui (Bangui Agreement; Act of 14 December 2015, in force since 14 November 2020): industrial property titles in the OAPI area and filing procedures.
Databases, domain names, trade secrets and know-how: protection through the applicable texts and by contract, to be characterised case by case.
Creations produced with artificial intelligence: ownership issues to be analysed in light of the applicable texts.
Audit and protection strategy for a portfolio of intangible assets.

Assessment: Continuous assessment (40%): practical cases in copyright and industrial property. Project (60%): strategy for protecting the intangible assets of a fictitious organisation. Same arrangements for both cohorts.

Career opportunities

Lawyer specialising in intellectual property and digital matters, legal support on cybercrime and digital evidence.

At your own pace: the self-paced pathway

In a class, this certificate takes 20 weeks, on the cohort's dates. On the self-paced pathway, you start whenever you like, online, and progress at your own pace. The price is the same.

Estimate how long my pathway will take

12 h / week · 240 hours in total

Duration: about 20 weeks
Estimated end: 20 weeks after you start
Examination: Online, subject to available slots, no earlier than 20 weeks after you start
Payment: In 1 to 5 monthly instalments, as you choose

An indicative estimate, for a start today and 240 hours of work. You can change your pace along the way; the pathway must be completed within 60 weeks (about 14 months) of your start. Your e-Campus access opens with your first payment.

Admission

Bachelor's degree in law or a related field, or legal or information systems experience assessed on application; a non-credit legal refresher course is recommended for non-lawyers. Admission based on application; detailed requirements set by the school.

The credits you earn are recognised without further assessment if you later join the programme they come from, Professional Master's degree in Digital Law, within a period set by the certificate regulations.