Mr.Amitabh Bachchan the son of late well-known poet Harivansh Rai Bachchan strongly condemned the copyright law that allows rights to heirs of original literary work for 60 years after the death of the author. The Copyright Act,1957 states that any original literary work is private till the 60-year period and is counted from the year following the death of the author, however, Amitabh says it "rubbish." In his blog, Big B wrote, "Written copyright and whatever else in the realm, live 60 years after the passing with the elements of them that be rightful? Really? So who designed 60 years? Why 60, why not 61, or why not perpetuity," Mr. Bachchan fiercely questioned on how an individual property could become public property?.

He further wrote, "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 said, "It is rubbish that what 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, use in commercial consideration on their own creative discretion." 

The actor ended his point by saying, "Why was not William Shakespeare made aware of copyright; why not Beethoven or Messrs Chopin and Tchaikovsky, or closer home Rabindranath Tagore?"