2015-12-07 HKT 12:02
Dr Danny Friedmann and Glacier Kwong appear on the Backchat programme. Photo: RTHK
A lecturer in intellectual property law at the Chinese University told the RTHK that Hong Kong's copyright amendment bill is already outdated with regard to exemptions for user-generated content.
This is at the centre of the fracas over what's now been dubbed internet Article 23.
The government says it wants to update copyright law here in line with international standards since 2006. But the Chinese University's Dr Danny Friedmann told the Backchat programme that the trouble is that those international standards are about to be updated.
He said the laws the Hong Kong is looking are those which were implemented a long time back and those are now being changed.
Meanwhile one of the groups leading the opposition, Keyboard Frontline, said they want to see an exemption for user-generated content along the lines of that recently adopted in Canada.
Its spokeswoman, Glacier Kwong, said the law in Canada exempts user generated content from copyrights law if it is not made on a commercial scale and not aimed at making profit.
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