Did
you
know,
as
per
the
Copyright
Act
under
the
Indian
law,
the
exclusive
rights
for
original
work
after
the
death
of
an
artist
is
only
sixty
years
and
after
that,
the
original
work
has
no
value
as
the
exclusive
rights
gets
automatically
dissolved.
Amitabh
Bachchan
lashed
out
against
the
sixty
year
Copyright
Act
and
called
it
rubbish.
He
vented
out
against
the
law
on
his
blog
by
saying,
“Written
copyright
and
whatever
else
in
the
realm,
lives
60
years
after
the
passing
with
the
elements
of
them
that
be
the
rightful?
Really?
So
who
designed
60
years?
Why
60,
why
not
61,
or
why
not
perpetuity.”
He
further
commented,
“Inheritors
that
come
as
natural
heirs
be
natural
right
holders
of
creative
copyright...
Right...
but
after
60
years,
its
natural
inheritors,
after
the
passing,
the
heirs
become
the
public
at
large...
ehh...
Who
did
this
intellectual
legality..
at
what
context.
I
believe
it
initiated
in
1957
or
so...
and
(I)
am
angered
by
its
audacity.”
He
called
it
rubbish
as
it
“gets
left
to
a
natural
heir
by
father
Harivansh
Rai
Bachchan,
after
his
passing
passed
60
years,
belongs
no
longer
to
his
domain
or
possessive
copyright
as
willed,
but
becomes
for
the
entire
universe
to
tread,
scratch,
mutilate,
usle
in
commercial
consideration
on
their
own
creative
discretion”.
“I
oppose,
disagree,
lament,
dispute,
be
in
variance
of,
in
vehement
loud
screams
of
voice.
My
inheritance
be
mine...
His
writings
be
his,
his
heir
be
me,
his
writings
be
mine...
Mine.
I
shall
not
and
will
not
allow
its
dilution
to
general
public.
I
bring
my
inherited
aesthetics
to
its
creativity...
It
may
be
the
worst
ever...
But
it
is
my
copyright.”
"How
can
individual
property
become
public
property?
I
fight
for
it,”
he
said
and
questionined
“why
was
not
William
Shakespeare
made
aware
of
copyright;
why
not
Beethoven
or
Messrs
Chopin
and
Tchaikovsky,
or
closer
home
Rabindranath
Tagore?
Had
they
known
or
made
to
know,
they
may
never
have
wished
for
any
other,
but
their
progeny
of
generations
to
come...
And
because
no
record
has
been
kept
of
such,
there
is
a
loss
of
opportunity
for
them
that
were
rightful
heirs
of
them!”