Call for applications: SACO capacity building workshop 

The workshop is intended to equip attendees with information on Intellectual Property in the South African arts industry.

Interested individuals should RSVP to tazleen.jooste@mandela.ac.za or SMS/WhatsApp her on 063 639 7653 before 17 June.

The workshop will touch on the following topics:

• What is intellectual property?
• What is the role and purpose of intellectual property and intellectual property law?
• What are the various forms of intellectual property?
• What are copyrights, patents, trademarks and designs?
• How are the different forms of intellectual property regulated in South Africa?
• What should artists do to acquire, protect and benefit from their intellectual property?
• What are the ways in which intellectual property rights can be infringed?
• What are the remedies to the intellectual property rights owner if the rights are infringed?

The workshop will run from 08:30am to 15:30pm at Constitution Hill, 11 Kotze Street, the Old Fort Building in Braamfontein.

For more information about this call, visit the SACO official website.