Under the Copyright Act, 1957, in the case of ‘posthumous publication’ of a literary, dramatic or musical work, the term of copyright is

Under section 24 of the Copyright Act, 1957, where a literary, dramatic or musical work or an engraving is unpublished when its author dies, copyright subsists until sixty years from the beginning of the calendar year next following the year in which it is first published. The term was fifty years until the 1992 amendment raised it to sixty, and seventy years is the term in many foreign laws, not in India.