Bangladesh

Commons says a government work in Bangladesh is protected for 60 years, counted from the start of the year after publication, under Section 28 of the Copyright Act 2023.¹ Its note on stamps applies that term: the first stamps were issued on July 29, 1971, so Commons expects none to qualify before 2032.¹ The 2023 act is not retroactive, and neither was the Copyright Act 2000 it replaced. The 2000 act had in turn replaced the Copyright Ordinance 1962, which Commons describes as identical to Pakistan's law, with 50-year terms.¹ Commons does not say whether that shorter term ever applied to a stamp, and the archive follows the 60 years in Commons' note.

Bengal was part of British India until 1947, then the eastern part of Pakistan, and became independent as Bangladesh in 1971.¹ The first eight Bangladeshi stamps were issued on July 29, 1971, during the Liberation War, from Mujibnagar.² Bengali Wikipedia says the graphic artist Biman Mallick designed them for the government in exile.³ While those stamps were in production, local postmasters were authorized to overprint the Pakistani stamps they held with the new country's name; these provisionals stopped being valid on April 30, 1973.² Commons' note treats Bangladeshi stamps as government works. It does not discuss stamps with a named designer or the Pakistani designs under the 1971 overprints, and the archive treats both questions as open.