Intellectual Property Rights
As a general principle, all intellectual property rights (Copyright, Industrial Design, etc) created or generated by academics, researchers, artists, and students on their own are owned by the academics, researchers, artists, and students. However, except for cases where the employee/s has/have made substantial use of the MGI’s facilities and resources for the generation of those intellectual property rights (Copyright, Industrial Design, etc), the ownership of the copyright, as well as the rewards/benefits in the form of royalty arising from copyright or any income from licensing or sale of rights, are shared by the MGI and the employee/s as creator/s on a 40/60% revenue sharing percentage, respectively. The employee/s is/are bound to disclose to the MGI any IP created for which MGI’s facilities and resources have been used.
Author/s or creator/s will have to transfer all his/her/their rights as copyright owner/s of the article/s to the publisher (MGI) through a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) made between both parties. It is worthwhile to note that authorship is assigned to whosoever has made a significant contribution to the research output/s.
Copyright of Others
The onus is upon the authors to seek written permission from the copyright owner/s before any published copyrighted materials such as text, illustrations, charts, tables, photographs, or other materials could be re-used in any research output for publication purposes. Unless otherwise stated, the copyright owner of a published article is the publisher of that article. In cases, where no written permission is required, the re-use of the copyrighted material must be properly acknowledged by the author/s