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The Swedish Supreme Court has decided that a hockey game does not reach the originality threshold to receive copyright protection. The hockey game in question was made available to the public on C More through linear broadcast on its television channel, as well as its pay-per-view service online. To view the game the viewers had to register, accept the user terms and pay for the game. The hockey game on C More’s website was linked to by a private individual. The Court of Appeal for Southern Norrland had previously established that the linking was a making available and that the linking breached...

On 1 March 2016 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Sweden in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) because it had denied access to court to a person who wanted to bring defamation proceedings in Sweden arising out of the content of a trans-border television programme service (TV3), suggesting that they resort to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. The European Court is of the opinion that requiring a Swedish national to bring defamation proceedings in the UK courts following an alleged defamatory TV programme broadcasted by the London-based company Viasat Broadcasting...

The relationship between the Swedish Marketing Practices Act (MPA) and posts in blogs and social media has been a subject of discussion in Sweden during the last year. In order to provide further guidance to bloggers and companies promoting their products on blogs and social media the Swedish Consumer Agency has recently published guidelines for marketing through blogs and social media (the Guidelines). The Guidelines confirm that there is no general prohibition against recommendations or posts about companies, products or services on blogs or in social media. If there is no link between a company...

The Swedish Broadcasting Authority (Myndigheten för radio och tv) has published two reports on public service radio and television. The Broadcasting Authority was assigned by the Government to study and report on two issues: (i) whether the public service companies influence the competition in the media market; and (ii) the system of impact assessment as defined by the EU Commission in its Communication on the application of State aid rules to public service broadcasting (2009/C 257/01), which provides for a notification and assessment procedure for new services introduced in the market by public...

On 7 August 2015, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern - the “CJ”) ordered the TV company C More Entertainment AB (C More) not to broadcast TV programs portraying certain kinds of violence, or any content containing detailed description of violence of a realistic nature, between 06.00 and 21.00. The order applies for one year from the decision and is subject to a conditional fine of SEK 200.000. In 2014, C More had broadcasted two episodes of the TV series The Leftovers at 17.00 on Swedish television. One episode had included scenes in which several people kidnapped and killed a...