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On 17 April 2009, Stockholms tingsrätt (the District Court of Stockholm) delivered its judgment regarding four people behind the well-known file-sharing site “The Pirate Bay”, hereinafter jointly referred to as the accused. The case concerns the question of criminal liability for acting as an accessory to and for the preparation of a crime against the Copyright Act. The Pirate Bay uses so-called BitTorrent technology, which makes it possible for people to share data files with each other. Through The Pirate Bay it is possible for internet users to upload and store so-called torrent files on The...

The culture ministers of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Nordic Council of Ministers) signed a five-year agreement with the Nordic Film & TV Fund on 11 May 2009 in Reykjavik. The aim of the agreement is to strengthen the Nordic region’s competitive position in the global film and television industry. In addition to production itself, the global marketing of Nordic films and talents is to be promoted. The agreement with the Nordic Film & TV Fund will run until the end of 2014 and an annual budget of approx. DKK 70 million will be made available. The agreement involves a total of 17...

Finally the Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC has been implemented in Sweden. The introduction of amendments to inter alia the Copyright Act on the 1 April 2009 has been highly debated by the Swedish public, while the Commission has complained on the late implementation. The implementation has been commonly named the “IPRED law”, when in fact it introduces several amendments and changes to inter alia the Copyright Act. Rightsholders have demanded the implementation in order to enable their protection against illegal distribution, criticising the problems with attempts to hinder illegitimate file...

On 16 February 2009, Kammarrätten i Stockholm (the Stockholm Administrative Court of Appeals) delivered a judgment regarding the promotion of a commercial interest in an improper manner in a sponsoring message. The case concerned the application of sections 6:4 and 7:8 of Radio- och TV-lagen (the Radio and Televisions Act - RTL ). The RTL is based, inter alia, on Directive 89/552/ECC, as amended by Directive 97/36/EC. Section 6:4 of the RTL states that programmes that are not advertisements may not promote commercial interests in an improper manner. Section 7:8 of the RTL stipulates that, if the...

The applicants, Adnan Khurshid Mustafa and his wife, Weldan Tarzibachi, are Swedish nationals of Iraqi origin. Relying on Article 10 (freedom to receive information) and Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life), they complained that they and their three children had been forced to move from their rented flat in Rinkeby (a suburb of Stockholm) in June 2006. The reason for their eviction was their refusal to remove a satellite dish in their flat after the landlord had initiated proceedings against them, because he considered the installation of a satellite antenna as a breach of the...