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law, there are not other satisfactory mechanisms for coping with the proposed cable programme service. I imagine that the Hong Kong authorities have to license any cable operator. A condition of the licence could be that the cable operator must behave as though copyright law is as in either the 1956 Act as amended by the 1984 Act or the 1988 Act. This would seem to protect the owner of copyright in a work against unauthorised inclusion of the work in a cable programme service. It would not protect the cable programme as such, but I am not sure who would be able to receive a cable programmes service apart from those who have some contractual arrangement with the cable programme supplier. Is there any reason why this contract should not include terms to prevent further copying?
10. I am sorry to be so longwinded. I trust that I have not muddied the waters too much more in an attempt to get to the bottom of this. Please get in touch if you have any queries, but please note that I will be on leave next week and again from the 24th August.
Yours sincerely,
Judit
Judith Sullivan (Mrs)
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