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the following drafts:
(a) a Copyright (Hong Kong) Order
in Council
(b) a Hong Kong Copyright Bill.
the
The purpose of the Order in Council is to
extend, with certain modifications,
provisions of the United Kingdom Copyright
Act, 1956, to Hong Kong. The purpose of
the Bill is to supplement the United Kingdom
Act; to bring Hong Kong's own copyright
legislation up to date; and to provide for
certain matters in the field of copyright
which are not covered by modifications to
the United Kingdom Act.
10.
Draft Copyright Order: Under existing
copyright law in Hong Kong, copyright exists
in individual works which go to make up a
broadcast programme, but no copyright
exists in a broadcast programme as such.
Section 14 of the United Kingdom Copyright
Act, 1956, creates a copyright in all television
and sound broadcasts made by the British
Broadcasting Corporation or by the Independent
Television Authority from a place in the
United Kingdom or in any other country to
which the Section is applied. The straight
application of Section 14 to Hong Kong, as
provided in the Order, would not of itself
present any problem: the difficulty arises
by virtue of the manner in which its
application to the Colony is modified by
clause 4 of the draft Copyright (Hong Kong)
Bill (see paragraph 11 below). The provisions
of the draft Order do not therefore call for
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