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SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1980

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE LABOUR DEPARTMENT SAID TODAY A TOTAL OF SIX PROGRAMMES WOULD BE CONDUCTED THIS MONTH (JUNE) TO PUBLICISE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY.

+WE ARE GOING OUT OF OUR WAY TO REACH THE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WORKERS, AND TO DRAW THE IR ATTENTION, THROUGH ENTERTAINMENT, TO THE IMPORTANCE OF SAFETY AT WORK,+ HË ADDED.

THE FIRST PROGRAMME IS SCHEDULED FOR CHA WAN TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA ON WEDNESDAY (JUNE 4) WITH THE VAN SHOWING TELEVISION FILMS AND SLIDES ON INDUSTRIAL SAFETY. IT WILL BE REPEATED AT KO CHIU ROAD ESTATE ON JUNE 11,

THE OTHER FOUR PROGRAMMES ARE VARIETY SHOWS, INCLUDING OUR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT-PRONE PUPPET FRIENDS, TO BE STAGED BY THE STREET THEATRE AT LOWER PAK TIN ESTATE, SHUN LEE TSUEN TEMPORARY HOUSING AREA, TAI HANG TUNG ESTATE AND MA TAU WAI ESTATE.

THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT THE VAN AND THE STREET THEATRE HAD BEEN VISITING VARIOUS HOUSING ESTATES AND PUBLIC PLAYGROUNDS IN DENSELY POPULATED AREAS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IN A BID TO GET THE INDUSTRIAL SAFETY MESSAGE ACROSS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE.

PIRATED TAPES AND RECORDS GO UP IN SMOKE

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A LARGE QUANTITY OF PIRATED TAPES AND RECORDS SEIZED BY THE COPYRIGHT PROTECTION SUB-DIVISION OF THE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE SERVICE WAS DESTROYED AT THE KENNEDY TOWN INCINERATOR.

THE GOODS, WORTH MORE THAN $600 000 WERE CONFISCATED WHEN EIGHT CASES, PROSECUTED UNDER THE COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE AND THE MERCHANDISE MARKS ORDINANCE, WERE CONCLUDED RECENTLY.

FINES AMOUNTING TO $46 450 AND A TOTAL 18 MONTHS IMPRISONMENT SENTENCE WERE IMPOSED ON 10 PERSONS FOR 34 OFFENCES INVOLVED IN THE CASES.

ITEMS DESTROYED INCLUDED 112 500 FORGED BLANK CASSETTE TAPES BEARING WELL-KNOWN JAPANESE BRANDS- 30 800 RECORDED MUSIC CASSETTE TAPES AND A QUANTITY OF INLAID CARDS AND LABELS,

LAST YEAR THE COPYRIGHT PROTECTION UNIT HANDLED 42 CASES CONNECTED WITH COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, RESULTING IN THE SEIZURE OF 14 TAPE RECORDERS FOR PRODUCING CASSETTES, 505 RECORDS, 4 645 PIRATED TAPES AND 10 439 COPIES OF PIRATED BOOKS.

A TOTAL OF 31 PEOPLE WERE CONVICTED OF VARIOUS COPYRIGHT OFFENCES, AND FINES AMOUNTING TO $97 815 WERE IMPOSED BY THE COURTS.

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