Vietnam’s Decree No. 18/2014/ND-CP: Issuing the royalty bracket

15:41, 18/03/2014

Recently, the Government of Vietnam signed and issued Decree No. 18/2014/ND-CP prescribing the regime of royalties in the field of press and publication.

Currently, according to Decree No. 18/2014/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, subjects entitled to royalties and remuneration for publications include:

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- Authors and copyright owners of publications who are paid royalties by agencies or organizations using these publications.

- Collectors and correctors of works, suppliers of works, documents and materials that are paid remuneration by agencies or organizations using the publications, including:

+ Folk art and literary works;

+ Documents of state agencies, political organizations, socio-political organizations, social organizations, socio-professional organizations and economic organizations, and translations of these documents.

- Editors who are paid remuneration by organizations or agencies using publications, depending on their contributions to the contents of manuscripts.

Also according to Decree No. 18/2014/ND-CP, royalties for publications shall, depending on genre, quality and quantity of publications, be paid according to the percentage (%) in the royalty bracket below:

Group	Genre	Percentage (%)
I	Created publications
1	Prose	8 - 17%
2	Musical books	10 -17%
3	Poem	12 - 17%
4	Theatrical or film scripts	12 - 17%
5	Picture books, photo books	8 - 12%
6	Comic books	4 - 10%
7	Dictionaries, reference books	12 - 18%
8	Political, cultural, social or educational theoretical research books	12 - 18%
9	Scientific, technological, technical, economic books, scientific works	10 -17%
10	Political, cultural, social, educational, scientific, technological and technical knowledge books	8 - 12%
11	Postgraduate, university, college or professional secondary school textbooks, books on methods for teachers and parents	8 - 16%
12	Text books, workbooks or notebooks, teachers’ books, target program books (under programs of the Ministry of Education and Training)	30 - 140% of the minimum wage per period set in programs
13	General education reference books under textbook programs	2 - 12%
II	Adapted, rewritten, transformed, collected, annotated, selected or anthological books	5 - 10%
III	Translated publications
1	Translation from Vietnamese into a foreign language	8 - 12%
2	Translation from a foreign language into Vietnamese (excluding comic books)	6 - 10%
3	Translation from a foreign language into another	12- 18%
3	Translation from Vietnamese into an ethnic minority language in Vietnam	12- 18%
4	Translation from one ethnic minority language into another one in Vietnam	15- 18%
5	Translation from Han-Nom scripts or an ethnic minority language into Vietnamese	12- 15%
IV	Tapes, discs and CD-ROM replacing books or attached to books	10- 13%
V	Maps	7 - 23%

More details can be found in Decree No. 18/2014/ND-CP of Vietnam’s Government, which takes effect from June 01, 2014.

Thu Ba

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