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