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rights under their licence would not be
in any way affected by copyright legislation.
This assurance was not given and, as
stated in paragraph 11 above, the current
copyright proposals would, in fact,
diminish the company's rights under their
licence.
20. TVB's Attitude:
TVB do not accept
that the licence, in the absence of any
specific mention of aerial distribution
systems, confers an exclusive right to
operate such systems. In representations
to the Hong Kong Government they have put
forward the following additional arguments:
(1) aerial distribution systems (CATV and
ADS) for wireless television broad-
casts should not be the subject of
monopoly by any one company,
particularly if that company operates
a competing television service which
requires no aerials at all and if its
commercial interests are opposed to
the expansion of wireless television
broadcasting. The sole object of
such systems is to enable the public
to obtain good reception of television
programmes broadcast over the air and
such systems are quite separate and
distinct from wired television
broadcast services such as that
operated by RTV:
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