W(B)L 51-7433
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CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT DESPATCH
Type 1 +
To:-
From
Governor of Hong Kong
Secretary of State
Telephone No. & Ext. Commonwealth Affairs
Department
Sir,
I have the honour to refer to your
Saving despatch No. 209 of 27 October, 1968,
with which you enclosed for my consideration
and advice draft copies of the Copyright
(Hong Kong) Order 1968 and the Copyright Bill
1968. An interim reply was sent to you in a
letter from the Department (CR 4/2/44 of
22 May), as a result of which you felt that
immediate consultation with us and with the
Board of Trade was desirable and sent
Mr. J.W.D. Hobley, Assistant to your Law
Officers, to London for this purpose.
2.
As you will be aware, Mr. Hobley had
useful consultations with officials concerned
and also with my Deputy Legal Adviser, and I
am now in a better position to comment upon
the issues raised by the proposed legislation.
3.
In the course of the consultations
consideration was given first to the question
of whether the Licence to Rediffusion (Hong
Kong) Limited conferred the exclusive right
to relay broadcast television material and
whether the draft copyright legislation would
take away that right and, as it were,
constitute a breach of contract.
4.
In the opinion of my Legal Advisers,
the licence did confer on Rediffusion (Hong
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