1984 Ed.]
Copyright
[CAP. 39
1
CHAPTER 39
COPYRIGHT
To modify the Copyright Act 1956 as amended by the Design Copyright Act 1968, in its application to Hong Kong and to make further provision with respect to copyright law in Hong Kong.
Originally
5 of 1973.
38 of 1974. 66 of 1975. L.N. 231/80.
L.N. 294/83.
L.N. 34/90
[2 March 1973.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Copyright Ordinance.
2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—
“Act” means the Copyright Act 1956 as amended by the Design Copyright Act 1968;
“authorized officer” means any public officer authorized in writing by the Commissioner to exercise any of the powers and perform any of the duties conferred or imposed on an authorized officer under this Ordinance; (Amended, L.N. 294/82)
“Commissioner” means the Commissioner of Customs and Excise and any Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Customs and Excise; (Replaced, L.N. 294/82)
“plate” has the meaning assigned by the Act and also includes any machine, device or equipment.
(2) Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, any word or expression used herein to which a meaning is assigned by the Act shall have in or for the purpose of this Ordinance the meaning that it has in or for the purposes of the Act.
3. The Act as extended to Hong Kong shall apply in Hong Kong to every television broadcast and every sound broadcast made by any organization specified in the Schedule from a place in Hong Kong as it applies to every television broadcast and every sound broadcast made by the British Broadcasting Corporation or the Independent Television Authority from a place in the United Kingdom.
4. (1) Where a television broadcast or sound broadcast is made by any organization specified in the Schedule from a place in Hong Kong, and the broadcast is an authorized broadcast, any person who, by the reception of the broadcast, causes a programme to be transmitted to subscribers to a diffusion service, being a programme comprising a literary, dramatic or musical work, or an adaptation of such a work, or an artistic work, or a cinematograph film, shall be in the like position, in any proceedings for infringement of the copyright (if any) in the work or film, as if he had been the holder of a licence granted by the owner of that copyright to include
L.N. 31/83.
L.N. 46/73.
Short title.
Interpretation.
(1956 c. 74) (1968 c. 68.)
Acts restricted by copyright in television and sound broadcasts by Hong Kong organizations. Schedule.
Transmission of authorized broadcasts by a diffusion service. Schedule. [cf. 1956 c. 74. s. 40(3)]