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proposed Bill by the Hong Kong Legislature,
though it could still be challenged in
the courts after enactment.
15. TVB's Attitude: TVB represented (in
Hong Kong) that without copyright
protection against the relay service of RTV
their Company could not operate commercially.
They pointed out that the only way their
wireless television station can compete
with its rival and expand its own
audience is by putting on programmes
more attractive to the viewing public;
and that this element of competition is
immediately destroyed if RTV is allowed
to take and use their Company's programmes
at will. Their Company's audience and
advertising revenue can grow only by
means of a continuous increase in the
number of wireless receiving sets in use
and their business and advertising revenue
cannot expand as a result of increases in
the number of wired sets connected to
the service of a competitor.
16. Hong Kong Government's Attitude:
Although it is understood it would be
RTV's intention to operate a straight and
separate relay service with TVB's programme
(i.e. they would run wires in parallel to
those carrying their own service, so that
a householder could receive, on payment,
either RTV's own service or TVB's entire
service on the same wired set by
adjusting a switch), the Hong Kong
Government consider it undesirable in
principle that RTV should be allowed to sell
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