A copyright might subsist in the work from the time it is distributed inside the
lifetime of the creator until the point when sixty years after the creator bites the
dust. In Section 22 of the Indian Copyright Act, 1957; it is specified as,
"But as generally hereinafter gave, copyright should subsist in any abstract, sensational, melodic or imaginative work (other than a photo) distributed inside the lifetime of the creator until 60[sixty] years from the earliest starting point of the date-book year next after the year in which the writer passes on".