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12.
RTV's Position in Hong Kong and UK:
The broadcasting situation in Hong Kong
appears to be unique so far as the
Commonwealth is concerned in that there
is one broadcasting organisation there
(RTV) which not only relays the programmes
in full and direct commercial competition
with other organisations whose television
programmes it has (under its licence)
the exclusive right to relay. This
situation does not obtain in the United
Kingdom where RTV cannot originate wired
Neither the BBC nor the ITA
programmes.
has the power under the Copyright Act, to
control the wired diffusion of their
programmes;
they enjoy the right to
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control the rebroadcasting of their
programmes, but not the contemporaneous
relaying of them. They did not ask for
this latter power at the time that the
Act was introduced, probably because
in this country Rediffusion does not
originate its own wired programmes.
fact, it shares in the equity of Independent
Television and is not, in the same sense
as in Hong Kong, in competition with it.
RTV's wired services in the United Kingdom
provide, without competing, a facility for
bringing BBC and ITA programmes into the
homes of the public and the two British
broadcasting authorities have every
reason to welcome this service.
13. RTV's Attitude: RTV have naturally
reacted strongly to Hong Kong's proposed
departure from the UK arrangements in
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