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Submission
Type 1 +
To:-
From
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
HONG KONG
COPYRIGHT LEGISLATION WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO SOUND AND TELEVISION BROADCAST AND RELAY SERVICES IN THE COLONY
PROBLEM
The Hong Kong Government is proposing that the
UK Copyright Act of 1956 should be applied, with
appropriate modification, to Hong Kong and that the
Colony's own copyright legislation should be amended
to bring it up to date and to supplement the UK Act.
This is in itself most desirable.
2. There is in Hong Kong a broadcasting company,
Rediffusion (Hong Kong) Limited, which possesses
certain exclusive television relay rights under a
licence granted to it in 1957. The Hong Kong
Government proposes substantially to diminish
those rights:-
(1) by conferring, in the proposed legislation
(as modified), copyright in television
broadcasts and to make it an infringement
of such copyright to relay television
broadcasts without the permission of the
originating broadcast organisation;
(2) by revoking the Company's existing licence
and replacing it with a new licence, which
will diminish the Company's exclusive right
to set up and operate certain types of