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creator or owner of the work. The original creator receives
exclusive rights pertaining to expression of his ideas enabling him
to make copies, distribute, license, and otherwise exploit the
literary, musical, or artistic work created by him, whether in
print, audio or video form and reap commercial benefits derived
from the work.
The copyright on a work remains for either the lifetime of the
author plus sixty years from the beginning of the calendar year
next following the year in which the author dies or until sixty
years from the beginning of the calendar years next following the
year in which the work is first published in India, expiry of which
the works eventually lose their copyright protection and fall into
the "public domain," and hence become freely exploitable.
The works that fall into the public domain are regulated in
different ways around the world. When the work is still under
copyright
