February 22, 2012 – A Legislative Assembly (AL) committee gave its consent to the controversial copyrights bill revision, but stressed that the bill aimed to protect copyrights instead of targeting public antenna companies or favouring Cable TV, which welcomed the new bill yesterday.
The third standing committee of AL gave the green light for the much-debated bill, paving the way for approval by the AL general assembly. Committee president Cheang Chi Keong, however, stressed that the new bill did not, as many people suggested, target the local public antenna companies that are relaying copyright-protected TV programs, nor did it favor Cable TV, which has been the territory’s only legal concessionaire of cable television services since 1999. Cable TV has been repeatedly accusing public antenna companies of competition by illegal means.
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