Remuneration/ Participation in revenues | Statutory rules regarding remuneration | Statutory rules regarding revenue sharing | Internal HEIs rules regarding revenue sharing | Related law (name & link) |
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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 |
South Africa