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(Hong Kong) Ltd. the exclusive right to relay
broadcast television material, even if, as
Mr. Hobley stated, the Hong Kong Government
records of the negotiations leading up to the
grant of the licence showed that this was not
then the Government's intention. They
consider that paragraph (b) of the licence
gave Rediffusion the exclusive right to
maintain a service distributed from their
stations by wire of any television programmes
and did not limit the service to their own
originated programmes or to one programme;
and they also consider that it would be
difficult to justify taking away from
Rediffusion the right to distribute by wire
broadcast television programmes (if that was
what the proposed copyright legislation would
do) on the ground only of the intention of
the Government in 1957.
5.
But, in my Legal Advisers' view, the
licence was necessarily subject to the law of
Hong Kong. The fact that Rediffusion (Hong
Kong) Ltd. held an exclusive right to relay
television broadcasts would not, for the sole
reason that the effect of the proposed
copyright legislation would be that
Rediffusion would have to obtain a licence
from the broadcasting company concerned
before they could exercise their exclusive
right to relay a broadcast and that the
company might not grant it, constitute a
legal objection to the proposed copyright
legislation. It is considered that
Rediffusion/
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