11.
CONFIDENTIAL
The way ahead. The Secretary for Recreation
and Culture has written separately advising you that HKG
will seek to provide copyright protection to
subscription cable television by local legislation.
Thus whether provisions of the 1984 Cable and
Broadcasting Act could be extended to Hong Kong by means
of a mechanis contained in the 1956 Act as extended to
Hong Kong, is now purely academic. What remains to be
addressed is the conflicting legal opinion on the scope
and effect of the 1990 Order.
12.
We
with copies
should be grateful if you would provide us
of legal advice you have received on this
If there is real concern on interpretation, we do not rule out the need to seek an independent opinion
on this issue.
issue.
Yours sincerely
( Miss AU King-chi )
for Secretary for Trade and Industry
c.c. AGC
DIP
(Attn Mr James Collins)
(Attn Mr P K F CHEUNG)