materials are respected. The intellectual property rights of its owner and/or its author shall be of paramount consideration in its publication and/or use by the NCIP. Section 18. Ownership Rights. The rights to researches and documentations whether published or unpublished, shall rightfully belong to: a. The community, whether initiated, solicited or conducted by the community themselves, undertaken within or affecting the ancestral domain. b. The community and the research proponent, jointly, for researches or documentations conducted by non-members of the community, undertaken within and affecting the community concerned and/or its ancestral domain. They shall have joint rights to all works and materials resulting from such research, whether or not the same is published or communicated in any medium. In the event that the research or documentation output are sought to be protected by the research proponent such copyright shall involve the community concerned in the said research or documentation. VIII. FINAL PROVISIONS Section 19. Special Provision. Previous documentation and research outputs shall be included in the registry of the community and the NCIP after validating the same with the concerned ICCs/IPs. Section 20. Saving Clause. This Guidelines will not in any manner adversely affect the rights and benefits of the community under other conventions, recommendations, international treaties, national laws, awards, customs and agreements. Section 21. Separability Clause. If any provision of this Guidelines or the application of such provision to any circumstances is held invalid, other provisions shall not be affected thereby. Section 22. Effectivity. This Administrative Order shall take effect fifteen (15) days upon its publication in a newspaper of general circulation and registration at the UP Administrative Register, UP Law Center, Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. APPROVED, this 15th day of March 2012, Quezon City. 16