South Africa

Remuneration/ Participation in revenues

Statutory rules regarding remuneration

Statutory rules regarding revenue sharing

Internal HEIs rules regarding revenue sharing

Related law (name & link)

Patents and other IPRs

Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Funded Research and Development Act prescibes minimum benefit sharing persentages

Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Funded Research and Development Act prescibes minimum benefit sharing persentages

All HEIs in South Africa have Intellectual Property Policies that must comply with the requirments of NIPMO. NIPMO also has the power to instruct non-compliant universities to amend their resective IP Policies to reflect the minimum benefit sharing requirtments

Intellectual Property Rights from Publicly Funded Research and Development Act No. 51 of 2008

Copyrights

Section 21 and 22 of the Copyright Act provides for employees to enter into agreements with employers regarding copyright ownership

None

With the exception of software the HEIs does not lay claim to royalty revenues from copyrighted works

Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978