• Validity of the copyright protection period before expiry: 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the work is first published.
• Validity of the copyright protection period after the death of the author(s): 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the author of the work died.

Duration of copyright:

Copyright that subsists in a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work by virtue of this Part continues to subsist until the end of 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the author of the work died.

If, before the death of the author of a literary work (other than a computer program) or a dramatic or musical work:
(a) the work had not been published;
(b) the work had not been performed in public;
(c) the work had not been broadcast; and
(d) records of the work had not been offered or exposed for sale to the public;

the copyright in the work continues to subsist until the end of 70 years after the end of the calendar year in which the work is first published, performed in public, or broadcast, or records of the work are first offered or exposed for sale to the public, whichever is the earliest of those events to happen.