PROCEDURAL ASPECTS OF THE PROTECTION OF SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION CONTAINED IN LITERARY AND OTHER WORKS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT WORKS IN SOUTH AFRICA

The article is devoted to the analysis of civil, criminal and administrative remedies in case of copyright infringements of literary and other works containing scientific information in one of the BRICS countries - South Africa, made through the prism of the provisions of the acting Constitution of 1996; statutory law (acts) of this country: in the field of copyright (Copyright Act, 1978, as amended 2008), judicial system (Renaming of Court Act, 2008; Small Claims Courts Act, 1984, as amended 2005; Magistrates' Courts Act, 1944, as amended 2017, etc., Arbitration Act, 1965), procedural rules of courts (e.g. Uniform Rules of Court, 1999; Criminal Law (Sentencing) Amendment Act, 2007), e-commerce (Electronic Communications and Transactions Act, 2002), judicial precedents developed within the framework of the current case law and statutory law and the provisions of the doctrine. The study based on the use of such methods of scientific knowledge as: general scientific dialectical, historical, comparative legal analysis, etc. The author proceeds from the subjective-objective adjustment of processes and phenomena. One of the conclusions of the research is the idea that the system of procedural remedies and methods of protection of scientific information in the South African legal order combines the use of civil, criminal and administrative remedies, while relatively new methods of dispute resolution, such as arbitration, are not widely used.

ЮАР, БРИКС, научная информация, авторское право, процессуальная защита авторских прав, уголовно-, гражданско- и административно-правовая защиты, судебная система, Cуды малых исков, Cуды магистратов, Высокий суд, Департамент по делам таможни и акцизных сборов, интернет - провайдеры, Уполномоченным по патентам, Трибунала по авторским правам, гражданский процесс, уголовный процесс, арбитраж