Copyright Act, 1957 · Chapter V: Term of Copyright
Section 28: Term of copyright Government works
In the case of Government work, where Government is the first owner of the copyright therein, copyright shall subsist until [sixty years] from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which the work is first published.
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