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the arrangements for the setting up of the new TV
Stations.
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7.
Mr Royle will want to raise this question with the
Governor in order to assure himself that the timetable
is still being adhered to and that the tenders do in
fact go out by the end of the year. Any further delay
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may well destroy Rediffusion (a UK-based company) which auhankary ya UK company and which pioneered television in Hong Kong.
COPYRIGHT
8.
We have been pressing the Hong Kong Government for
Сосся some considerable time to amend their e copyright
legislation and for the 1956 UK Copyright Act to be
extended to cover Hong Kong, This has been held up
because copyright was involved in the television licence This has now been sorted out, however and
difficulties.
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the Hong Kong Government have asked that the Copyright Act of 1956 should be extended to Hong Kong with effect We have fasad this request inque BT1, who deal with in Art. from 1 January 1973. They are still working on the
thing Kong
local legislation which they hope will be completed by
the end of the year.
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