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A novelty in Swedish Radio and TV Act which came into force in December 1996, is the ability of the Swedish Broadcasting Commission to ask the courts to impose certain fines on TV and radio broadcasting companies. The Commission has recently used this possibility in three decisions of which one concerns the public service television broadcaster SVT and two concern TV4, a private commercial (but also terrestrial) television broadcaster. Consequently, the Commission asked the County Administrative Court for the County of Stockholm to impose fines on SVT and TV4. SVT should, according to the Commission,...

The Finnish media group Aamulehti has bought a share of 23.3% in the private commercial Swedish TV channel, TV4. Aamulehti in it's turn is 20% owned by the Swedish media group Bonnier, who also owns a 16.7% share in TV4. The Swedish Governement is concerned about the new ownership situation of TV4 and fears that Bonnier will strengthen its position in the Swedish media sector. In order to increase diversity and to compensate a possible concentration of ownership by Bonnier in TV4, the Swedish Government proposes to provide an additional SEK 507 million to the public service channels SVT1 and SVT2....

TV4 On 1 July 1997, and the Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM) reached agreement on fees payable for musical performances broadcast by TV4. The agreement covers the entire period from TV4' s inception in September 1990 and runs until the end of 2001. The fee issue has been a hard nut to crack and has led to a number of legal disputes. On the basis of the new model, fees due will be calculated on the basis of TV4 's advertising revenue minus the broadcasting licence fee and sales overheads. This calculation method made the agreement commercially acceptable for TV4. TV4 will incur a one-off...

Two reports have been published in Sweden concerning the freedom of expression and the possible abuse of it. One of the reports proposes to apply the rules on freedom of expression also to the new media. It suggests that this freedom should cover all expressions, more generally referred to as "technical recordings". The other report deals with child pornography and it proposes that such pornography should be considered criminal offence. It is suggested that the Criminal Code should prohibit all production, transfer, licensing or showing of child pornography, as well as buying such material and...

A report report drafted by a Government appointed expert (utredningsman) has recently been published by the Swedish Ministry of Culture in which it is suggested that one public service channel from both Norway and Denmark be distributed by Swedish cable networks (in the USA referred to as cable systems) with must carry status, as currently SVT1, SVT2 and TV4 have. In Sweden 54% of the population have access to cable networks. Of the four main cable operators on the market, the Swedish telecom company, Telia , has the biggest number of subscribers. Danish TV can be seen by 12% of the Swedish population...