law: Copyright Act, 1957 
  79. Repeals, savings and transitional
  
  provisions – 
  (1) The Indian Copyright Act, 1914 (3 of
  
  1914), and the Copyright Act of 1911 passed by the Parliament of the Untied
  
  Kingdom as modified in its application to India by the Indian Copyright Act,
  
  1914, are hereby repealed.
  (2) Where nay person has , before the
  
  commencement of this Act, taken any action whereby he has incurred and
  
  expenditure or liabilities in connection with the reproduction or performance
  
  of any work in a manner which at the time was lawful or for the purpose of or
  
  with a view to the reproduction or performance of a work at a time when such
  
  reproduction or performance would, bur for the coming into force of this Act,
  
  have been lawful, nothing in this section shall diminish or prejudice any
  
  rights or interest arising from or in connection with such action which are
  
  subsisting and valuable at the said date, unless the person who, by virtue of
  
  this Act, becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees
  
  to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by the
  
  Copyright Board.
  (3) Copyright shall not subsist by virtue of
  
  this Act in any work in which copyright did not subsist immediately before the
  
  commencement of this Act under any Act repealed by sub section (1).
  (4) Where copyright subsisted in any work
  
  immediately before the commencement of this Act, the rights comprising such
  
  copyright such copyright shall, as form the date of such commencement, e the
  
  rights specified in Section 14 in relation to the class of works to which such
  
  work belongs, and where any new rights are conferred by that section, the owner
  
  of such rights shall be- 
  a. in any case
  
  where copyright in the work was wholly assigned before the commencement of this
  
  Act, the assignee or his successor-in-interest.
  b. In any other
  
  case, the person who was first owner of the copyright in the work under any Act
  
  repealed by sub section (1) or his legal representatives.
  (5) Except as otherwise provided in this Act,
  
  where any person is entitled immediately before the commencement of this Act to
  
  copyright in any work or any right in such copyright or to an interest in any
  
  such right, he shall continue to be entitled to such right or interest for the
  
  period which he would have been entitled thereto if this Act and come into
  
  force.
  (6) Nothing contained in this Act shall be
  
  deemed to render any act done before its commencement an infringement of copyright
  
  if that act would not otherwise have constituted such an infringement.
  (7) Save as otherwise provided in this
  
  section, nothing in this section shall be deemed to affect the application of
  
  the General Clause Act, 1897 (10 of 1897), with respect to the effect of
  
  repeals.