Hong Kong Ordinances

COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE - SECT 27

Infringement by performance, playing or showing of work in public

(1) The performance of the work in public is an act restricted by the
copyright in a literary, dramatic or musical work.

(2) In this Part "performance" (表演), in relation to a work-

   (a)  includes delivery in the case of lectures, addresses, speeches and
        sermons; and

   (b)  in general, includes any mode of visual or acoustic presentation,
        including presentation by means of a sound recording, film, broadcast
        or cable programme of the work.

(3) The playing or showing of the work in public is an act restricted by the
copyright in a sound recording, film, broadcast or cable  programme.

(4) Where copyright in a work is infringed by its being performed, played or
shown in public by means of apparatus for receiving visual  images or sounds
transmitted by electronic means, the person by whom the visual images or
sounds are sent, and in the case of a performance the performers, shall not be
regarded as responsible for the infringement. [ cf. 1988 c. 48 s. 19 U.K.]

"performance" (表演)