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CHAPTER V TERM OF COPYRIGHT

Section 27: Term of copyright in sound recording

The Copyright Act, 1957

In the case a 1[sound recording] copyright shall subsist until 2[sixty years] from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the 1[sound recording] is published.

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Subs. by Act 38 of 1994, s. 2, for “record” (w.e.f. 10-5-1995).
  2. 2.Subs. by Act 13 of 1992, s. 2, for “fifty years” (w.e.f. 28-10-1991).

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