SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1990
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HK TAKES LEAD IN COPYRIGHT PROTECTION
DEPARTMENT
HAS BEEN
TRYING HARD TO
TO PROTECT
THE
OF
CUSTOMS
AND
THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE COMBAT VARIOUS COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ACTIVITIES COMMISSIONER RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS, THE ACTING EXCISE, MR TONG KANG-SING, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE "COPYRIGHT EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY THE PENINSULA JAYCEES, COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT ACTIVITIES INCLUDED PIRATED CASSETTES, MOVIES AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES, REFERENCE BOOKS AND COMPUTER MANUALS.
AND
YOU"
MR
TONG SAID
SUCH
POP MUSIC
PHOTOCOPIED
AND
PIRATED
LEAD IN
PROTECTING
THE
A HE SAID HONG KONG HAD BEEN TAKING RIGHTS OF COPYRIGHT OWNERS, AND HAD HENCE ATTRACTED A RAPID INCREASE IN OVERSEAS TECHNOLOGY AND INVESTMENTS.
HE SAID HONG KONG WAS ONCE REFERRED TO AS "THE COMPUTER SOFWARE INFRINGEMENT", WHICH HAD AFFECTED THE REPUTATION AND IMPEDED ITS ECONOMY, HE NOTED.
PARADISE OF TERRITORY'S
WHO WENT
BUT NOW OTHER THAN A SMALL NUMBER OF TOUTS UNDERGROUND, NO PIRATED PRODUCTS WERE SOLD IN PUBLIC, MR TONG SAID.
AND REPUTATION
AND PROTECTED
"DUE TO EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT, THE BENEFIT
BE PUBLISHERS, MANUFACTURERS AND SINGERS CAN IMPROVED.
"SUCH PROTECTION PROVIDES INVESTORS THE CONFIDENCE TO MORE VENTURES, SUCH AS ORGANISING CONCERTS OF TOP SINGERS,
OF
FURTHER
TAKE ON HE SAID.
MR TONG SAID UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE GENERAL AGREEMENT ON
AND TRADE, TARIFFS
MANY COUNTRIES HAD ADOPTED A MORE POSITIVE APPROACH TOWARDS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS.
FACING TRADE
IT
DOES NOT RIGHTS,
"I
"A COUNTRY WILL BE
SANCTIONS IF EXERCISE EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO PROTECT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HE ADDED.
CIVIC EDUCATION IMPORTANT TO YOUNG PEOPLE
**
HAS CIVIC EDUCATION
IN MR KOWLOON,
BECOME A VERY ESSENTIAL PART OF THE EDUCATION OF THE YOUNG IN THE LIGHT OF FUTURE CHANGES
HONG KONG, HONG KONG AND THE REGIONAL SECRETARY FOR
DAVID
LAN, SAID TODAY (SATURDAY).
HE WAS SPEAKING AT THE GRADUATION ENGLISH PRIMARY SCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN.
CEREMONY
OF THE FUNFUL
/MR LẦN
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