COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE
PART II—DIVISION I
Section 9
2-14
Cap. 528
“interconnection” (互相連接) includes interconnection that
involves a change of technical characteristics, format or
parameters;
“sounds” (聲音), for the purposes of the exclusion in subsection
(2)(a), means speech or music or both except that they do not
include, in relation to any telecommunications system, speech
providing information for the purpose of facilitating the use
of a telecommunications service provided by means of that
system; (Amended 36 of 2000 s. 28)
“visual images” (影像), for the purposes of the exclusion in
subsection (2)(a), means visual images which are such that
sequences of them may be seen as moving pictures.
(2) The following are excepted from the definition of “cable
programme service”—
(a) a service (such as the services commonly known as
video conferencing and video telephony) which consists
wholly or mainly in the transmission of sounds or visual
images or both by any person if it is an essential feature
of the service that, while they are being transmitted,
there will or may be transmitted from each place of
reception, by means of the telecommunications system
or (as the case may be) the part of it by means of which
they are transmitted, sounds or visual images or both for
reception by that person; (Amended 36 of 2000 s. 28)
(b) a service for making available to the public of copies
of works or fixations of performances, but excluding
a service in which the transmission of moving visual
representational images is an essential feature (such as
the service commonly known as video-on-demand);
(c) the running by a broadcaster of a telecommunications
system in the case of which every transmission made by
it is either— (Amended 36 of 2000 s. 28)
Last updated date
3.3.2014