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CHAPTER V TERM OF COPYRIGHT

Section 28A: Term of copyright in works of public undertakings

The Copyright Act, 1957

1[In the case of a work, where a public undertaking is the first owner of the copyright therein, copyright shall subsist until2[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.Ins. by Act 23 of 1983, s. 11 (w.e.f. 9-8-1984).
  2. 2.Subs. by Act 13 of 1992, s. 2, for “fifty years” (w.e.f. 28-10-1991).

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