CONFIDENTIAL
Registry HKK
No.
10/2
DRAFT LETTER
SECURITY CLASSIFICATION
Confidential,
PRIVACY MARKING
Собору
In Confidence
628
52) and
32/4/11
To:- His Excellency
Sir Hugh Norman-Walker, K.C.M.,.B.E.
Government House,
YONG
HỒNG KONG
D.R. Holmes.Esq
CMG CBE M
ins.
Deputy Cal. See
Type 1 +
From
Mr. Laird
Telephone No. & Ext.
Department
Will you please refer to Sir David Trench's
letter to Wilford of 25 August on the subject of
copyright in broadcasts.
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his
During #ilford's visit to Hong Kong last
Wilford
month he spoke to Denys Roberts about this matter
^
and handed him a copy of a letter (with one of
its enclosures) which he had received from R.F.G.
Dennis, a Director of Rediffusion International
Ltd. I attach copies of the correspondence in
question.
You will see that the enclosure to Dennis'
letter is the draft of an undertaking which
Rediffusion would be prepared to offer to the Hong
Kong Government in exchange for the latter's
abandoning the features in the proposed copyright
legislation to which the Company have taken exception.
Denys Roberts' first reaction was that the idea
of the proposed undertaking might well be helpful
and he undertook to have a look at it and let us
know his views. We have not yet heard from him on
the subject and I thought it as well to send you this
further copy of the undertaking and to enquire whether
helping to
of resolving
you think that it holds out any hope of resol
this extremely intransigent problem.
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