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Television and Films and is to devote his full-time to
the arrangements for the setting up of the new TV
Stations.
LINE TO TAKE
Mr Royle will want to raise this question with the
Governor in order to assure himself that the timetable
is still being adhered to and that the tenders do in
fact go out by the end of the year. Any further delay
may well destroy Rediffusion (a U-based company) which
pioneered television in Hong Kong.
COPYRIGHT
We have been pressing the Hong Kong Government for
so e considerable time to amend their own copyright
legislation and for the 1956 UK Copyright Act to be
extended to cover Hong Kong. This has be n held up because copyright was involved in the television licence difficulties. This has now been sorted out, however and the Hong Kong Government have asked that the Copyright Act f 1956 should be extended to Hong Kong with effect from 1 January 1973. They are still working on the local legislation which they hoe will be completed by the end of the year.
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