WIRELESS BROADCASTING.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 183, 2 August 1923, Page 5

WIRELESS BROADCASTING.

COMMONWEALTH LAWS. STRINGENT REGULATIONS. MELBOURNE, August 1. New wireless regulations provide that except with the consent of the Defence authorities licenses other than for broadcasting will not be granted except to a British-born or naturalised British subject. A declaration of secrecy will be required in regard to commercial, naval, or military wireless communications, licensed installations will not be permitted unless specially authorised to compete in commercial traffic witn telegraph or telephone services. The annual licence fees range from 10/ to £15. The latter is for broadcasting and transmitting. The license will be issued for five years, renewable annually thereafter. Receiving licenses will have a currency of one year. Provisions are made for regulating the use of various wave lengths. The section dealing with broadcasting news provides that the licensee shall not transmit any work of art or part thereof wherein the copyright exists, except with the consent of the owners of the copyright, or send out any news obtained, collected or coordinated by any newspaper, association of newepapers, or any news agency or service, except with the full consent in writing, and upon such payment and conditions as are mutually agreed upon by the licensee and newspaper association, agency, or service.—(A. and N.Z.)