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The Swedish Parliament has accepted the Government's proposal to increase the advertising limit on private commercial television, as laid down in the Radio and TV Act, during prime time. The amendment to the Act is the result of negotiations between the Government and TV4 on the status of the 16 local TV stations which broadcast under the licence and the editorial responsibility of TV4. On the basis of the Radio and TV Act, TV4 has been licensed by the Government as Swedens sole terrestrial private commercial TV channel. Until 1 January 1997 it was under the obligation to maintain editorial offices...

In its decision of May 20, 1996 (Case No. B 1442/95), the Göta Appeal Court ( Göta hovraett ) in Jönköping, Sweden, ruled on inter alia the interpretation of the term "child" ( barn ), "sexual violence or coercion" ( sexuellt vaeld eller tvaeng ) and "circulation" ( spridning ) in the context of the child pornography offence ( barnpornografibrott ) and the offence of unlawful depiction of violence ( olaga vaeldsskildring ), laid down in Chapter 16, 10a and 10b, respectively, of the Swedish Penal Code (BrB). The Court's decision was not appealed to the Swedish Supreme Court ( Högsta domstolen )....

other texts are available yet. TV4, the only terrestrial private commercial TV channel in Sweden and the Swedish Government agreed on a new broadcasting licence which took effect on 1 January 1997. The new licence is formulated as a permission to broadcast rather than an agreement between two equal parties as was the case before. The changes in substance as compared to the previous licence agreement are as follows: - The previous detailed quotas on programming have been abolished. The quotas have been replaced by less detailed obligations, such as the obligation to widen TV4's responsibility...

In IRIS 1996-4:11 we announce the publication of a report on the introduction of digital terrestial broadcasting in Sweden. The report has been fiercely debated and criticized for being too optimistic and drastic. The Swedish Government believes there are no grounds strong enough at present for making such a far reaching decision as the report suggested. The Government has consequently presented a Bill on terrestial digital TV broadcasting. The Bill opts for the gradual introduction of digital TV. During an introduction period of one year, starting at the earliest in the autumn of 1997, digital...

T-Shirts, merchandised by Sveriges Television (SVT), the Swedish public broadcaster, have been the subject of pirating activities. One of the company's most important programmes in terms of merchandising, is the popular children's programme Björnes Magasin . Björne is a big bear played by the actor Jörgen Lantz in disguise. The illegal T-shirts, picturing Björne, were sold in Stockholm. Trademark and copyright infringement is a criminal offence in Sweden and therefore, SVT reported both trademark and copyright infringement to the Public Prosecutor. The Public Prosecutor decided to bring only the...