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Overview
What you will study
Starting from intellectual property law, the course then covers various other topics such as open source software, escrow, and the practicalities of common agreements. The Software law course offered by University of Cape Town is presented by an attorney who is a former software developer and has specialised in ICT law for some years.
When you have completed this course, you should be able to:
- Describe intellectual property, and copyright in particular, as it applies to software in South Africa
- Understand the legal principles of licensing and assignment of software
- Deal with important aspects of software licensing and development agreements, including escrow and maintenance of software
- Understand the essentials of exchange control as it applies to software
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Essential intellectual property law
- Works subject to copyright
- Copyright ownership of software
- Independent contractors vs employees
- Infringement and remedies
- Adaptations and reverse engineering
- Open source software
- Assignment vs licensing
- Software licensing agreements - important concepts
- Escrow
- Support and maintenance
- Software development agreements - important concepts
- Exchange control and software - "export" of software
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 1 days
Start dates & application deadlines
You can apply for and start this programme anytime.
More details
- The course is self-paced, so you can register at any time and work through the material at your own schedule.
Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Patent & Intellectual Property Law View 6 other Short Courses in Patent & Intellectual Property Law in South AfricaAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- This course is aimed at anyone involved in the commercialisation of software, including in-house legal advisors, IT managers, software developers and anyone else seeks a practical understanding of the area.
Tuition Fee
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International
2400 ZAR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2400 ZAR for the full programme during 1 days. -
National
2400 ZAR/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2400 ZAR for the full programme during 1 days.
Funding
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