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However, he suggested that the maximum term of imprisonment stipulated
in the Bill be increased from six to 12 months for a second or subsequent offence
as the light sentence term seemed contrary to the intention of the Bill.
In reply, the Attorney General, Mr. D.T.E. Roberts said he had no
objection to amending the bill as proposed by Dr. Chung.
Speaking in support of the bill, Mr. T.K. Ann hoped that with its
introduction, local talent would from now on "have no fear of their brain
child being pirated from or after the day of its birth".
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"Like the need to protect Hong Kong designs from being copied, so is
there the need to afford protection to Hong Kong's reputation as a manufacturing
centre, against local infringement of right of others' artistic authorship in
foreign countries," Mr. Ann added.
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