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I attach a memorandum about copyright in Hong
Kong. For a variety of reasons the 1956 United
Kingdom Copyright Act has not yet been extended
to the Colony. Hong Kong operates most un-
satisfactolly on earlier versions of the United
Kingdom Act, with the result that pirating of
books, records etc. is widespread and this is
much resented, not least in this country. Hong
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Kong cannot, for example, subscribe to the Berne
Copyright Convention until the 1956 Act applies
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to it. The extension of the Act to Hong Kong,
merely
varied simply to suit local conditions, is a
relatively simple operation and would be non-
contentious. The problem is, however, bedevilled
by an issue concerning copyright of TV programmes.
as is explained in the memorandum
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Briefly the issue is that in 1957 the Government
of Hong Kong gave RTV (Hong Kong) an exclusive
licence to operate a wired TV service.
Hong Kong's first TV service. Included in the
company's licence was a provision that they had the
exclusive right to relay contemporaneously (and
therefore in full) the product of any other TV In the U.K. Rediffusion
broadcasting station.
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