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CHAPTER V TERM OF COPYRIGHT

Section 28: Term of copyright Government works

The Copyright Act, 1957

In the case of Government work, where Government is the first owner of the copyright therein, copyright shall subsist until 1[sixty years] from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is first published.

Footnotes in the official text

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

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